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B2016.019.1.03c.03209.16
CINA [Cook Inlet Native Association] Bldg [Anchorage - Buildings - CIRI], 1982
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Buildings, CIRI, Cook Inlet Region Inc., CINA, Cook Inlet Native Association
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.1.03c.04316.07
Club 25 move - near 4th & D Sts [Anchorage - Buildings - Club 25], 1984
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Buildings, Club 25
Collection: B2016.019
B2009.017.1986.05.08
Ship Creek Danger PCB Contamination Drink up, it's Hazardous Waste Spring Clean-Up Week. May 8, 1986
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, cartoons, political, comics
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.004.24649
Monument to the pipeline. Photographer's number 24649 [Tetradigm at UAA. print date 1976]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2006.10
Russian Church "100 years old" Hewitts drug photo (Russian Church, Eklutna 100 years old, 1955)
Keywords: church, russian
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2256
[farmer in field holding celery, Matanuska Valley?]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2258.1a
(First Presbyterian Church on 5th Avenue and F Street, Anchorage) [exterior in winter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2258.1b
(First Presbyterian Church on 5th Avenue and F Street, Anchorage) [exterior in winter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2258.2a
(Anchorage Log Cabin Visitors Center in winter)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2258.2b
(First Presbyterian Church on 5th Avenue and F Street, Anchorage) [steeple]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.019.1.14a.06011.17
Filtered sunsets on Turnagain Arm [Scenics - Sunsets - Turnagain Arm], 1987
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Scenics, Sunsets, Turnagain Arm
Collection: B2016.019
B1998.014.1.1935
T179 A section of Anchor Homes (Anchorage Homes) [view looking southeast; roadway; subdivision above wetland, Anchor Park at Lake Otis and Maple; mountains in distance at left; Chester Creek in mid-ground, utility poles; same as .1934]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2013.038
Panoramic photograph showing Lt Colonell H.C. Slusser, Comdr- T.C. Duran, 1st Sgt and members of the 2868th CEEIA Squadron AFLC. Elmendorf Airforce Base Alaska, June 29, 1962. National photo and news service image #1629622.
Keywords: panoramic, airforce, 1962, Elmendorf, 2868th, squadron, military
Collection: B2013.038
B1989.016.1969.7
(Christmas Card, Greetings from the Northland) (glaciers and cabin)[Greeting card with photograph of snow covered mountain rd and pen and ink drawing of a cabin in the mountains]
Keywords: snow, cabin, card, mountains
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1993
T217 Anchorage, Alaska "McKinley Bldg; July 1954" [street scene looking east on Fourth Avenue; Alaska Cleaners; Mlue Mirror Bar Lounge]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.099
A41 black bear cub, 4 negs [bear balanced atop stump]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.002.14
Alaska Governor Tony Knowles with Cal Williams, 1994 [Color photograph autographed “Cal, Thanks for your public service, Tony Knowles” Handwritten on back: 1994]
Keywords: Cal Williams, Tony Knowles
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1989.016.531.2
Green Lake cabin [now Elmendorf Air Force Base]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1536.8
147. Farm home, Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [wood frame house with automobiles parked in yard near outbuilding, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2258.3b
(Anchorage Log Cabin Visitors Center in winter)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2258.4b
(Anchorage Log Cabin Visitors Center in winter)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.568
[low aerial looking north over Anchorage International Airport, with Lake Hood and Lake Spenard in middle ground, downtown in distance]
Collection: B1995.010
B2022.002.13.3
Cal Williams’s headshot, Hollywood, California, 1971-1975 [black and white professional photographs of Cal Williams, at bottom: contact information about Cal Williams’s manager, Ernestine McClendon of Ernestine McClendon Enterprises Inc.]
Keywords: Cal Williams
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1998.014.1.1001
(L136 Portage Glacier midway between Seward & Anchorage) [icebergs in lake, mountains; neg removed due to deterioration - channeling and bubbling]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.004.259
Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.260
Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1979.002.4847
{large number of women standing in line infront of building holding signs}
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1995.010.6049
Anchorage [parade on Fourth Avenue, with spectators watching vehicles and floats passing businesses including Kennedy Hardware and KFQD, 1940s]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.195
B12 Fairbanks University of Alaska - aerial [wing strut of plane, river, forest]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2028
T244 Anchorage, Alaska "4th Ave Theatre & Street" [blemish/stain on neg; street scene with First National Bank of Alaska; theatre: "Now showing Marilun Monroe 'Seven Year Itch; Tom Ewell"; Reed Bldg; Tom's Radio; Masonic Temple; J.C. Morris Insurance; Oyster Loaf]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1007
(L140 Seward Highway) [paved highway, mountains, possibly water in distance; marks near center of image are due to pen marks on neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.430
Best in the North, Anchorage, Alaska "B131 4th Ave Theatre, Anchorage." [Marquee reads "Now showing Marilyn Monroe 'Seven year itch' Tom Ewell;" Reed building; autombiles, parking meters, peapole on sidewalks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.100
A41 black bear [error on envelope; actually: A39 black bear cubs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.002.18
Examples of Cal Williams community activism [clockwise from top left: making a presentation at Bartlett Democratic Club Political Forum lunch, Anchorage Senior Activity Center with a fellow veteran, holding up a photograph of John S. Parks, with actor Danny Glover at Anchorage Senior Center for Nutrition, speaking at Senior Center for Black History Month, at Anchorage Senior Center]
Keywords: Cal Williams
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1989.016.2087
Indian Creek, Alaska. Fritschen [winter scene, with man standing near buildings, utility pole at left, 1930s?]
Keywords: communications
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.539
"D33 Dick Mitchell's team [dog sled team, musher, snow, mountains in distance, similar to .535]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1983.146.011
Main Street Anchorage July 4th1915. Laurence [crowd gathered in street, flags hanging across street, tents, Larson & Wendler, Photographer, Newt W. Pilger store]
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives