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B1990.014.5.EQ.16.75
Miller-Dalton Co.
Keywords: helicopter, power lines, damaged buildings
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1998.014.1.2506
"Construction; April 1963 (new snow)" [Euclid earthmover; similar to .2505]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2516
"U.S. Army Post Headquarters" [Entrance with bear insignia; snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2526
"Group award: Jan 14, 1964" [seven men and one woman in office; man in uniform holding papers is Colonel Kenneth T. Sawyer; desk with papers, pens, ashtray; Essayons U.S. Army Corps of Enigineers insigna on wall; clock on wall; similar to .2525]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2536
"Water resources display 1 neg - aerial of docks" [one neg and one transparency taped together; waterfront view of Cordova(?) prior to 1964 earthquake; piers, boats; structures]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1774
(McKinley Apartments, Anchorage) [automobiles parked outside apartment building on Fourth Avenue and Cordova Street]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1696
(T58 2nd Ave. Fairbanks, Alaska, 1948 postcard, 30) Street scene at 2nd and Lacey St, businesses, 10 - 15 cent Store, The Sportsman, Kaye's Fine Furs, Empress (?), Daily News Miner, Cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Bar, Cafe, Cottage Bar, Cleaners, people, women, sidewalks, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1146.46
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Jan. 24, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage in winter, walls going up for postal annex]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.69
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Oct. 23, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, exterior of nearly completed postal annex with scaffolding and parked automobile]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1145.1
P-117. River Drive, Palmer, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. Frank Hertzog 1935 Macungie, Pa.
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1145.2
P-117. Hewitt's (River Drive, Palmer)
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.36
(Building Federal Building, Inside Construction, Aug. 21, 1940) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, showing interior of courtroom]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.312
D-45. Got a Bite? Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (George Dale) [Alaska Native man ice fishing]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.378
B92 Old Russian Cburch at Ninilchik [B93 listed on envelope; church with spruce tree, foliage in foreground, possibly fireweed]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1144
#222. Home gardening in Anchorage. Hewitt's Photo Shop [includes two homes, gardens, utility poles]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.1
#3. Hewitt's Drug, '39 (Building Federal Building, Jly 18, 1939) [two men stand near construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, with Alaska Transfer Co. truck. Includes Herman Johnson Carpenter Shop, The Gitchell, and original post office building on Third Avenue]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.10
(Building Federal Building, Steel Construction, Sept. 14, 1939) [construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.11
(Building Federal Building, Sept. 20, 1939) [walls going up at new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.12
(Building Federal Building, Sept. 20, 1939) [walls going up at new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.31
(Building Federal Building, Apr. 23, 1940) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, showing scaffolding]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.7
(Building Federal Building, Aug. 19, 1939) [bird's eye view of walls going up at construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, looking northeast, with workmen and piles of supplies]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.74
By Inlet Hotel Phyl McCutcheon K St. between 4th and 5th west side
Keywords: pedestrians, damaged buildings, houses
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1989.016.1146.16
(Building Federal Building, Steel Construction, Oct. 23, 1939) [construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.28
(Building Federal Building, Mar. 26, 1940) [view across corner of 4th and F Street of construction of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, showing pedestrians, parked automobiles, utility poles, and U.G. Crocker store]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2003.1
(Mt McKinley) [North face of Mt McKinley(Denali) showing the Wickersham Wall and upper Muldrow Glacier with Wonder lake in foreground]
Keywords: alaska range, mountains, glaciers, Denali, lake, national park
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.18
(Building Federal Building, Oct. 23, 1939) [walls with scaffodlding and parked automobile in foreground, construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.19
(Building Federal Building, Nov. 25, 1939) [walls with scaffodlding and piles of snow-covered supplies in foreground, construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.21
(Building Federal Building, Inside Construction, Dec. 25, 1939) [construction of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, finishing walls in a hallway]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.22
(Building Federal Building, Inside Construction, Jan. 20, 1940) [construction of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, finishing walls in rooms]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.S2023.17
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Lions Club member selling Alaska penants)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.283
B53 Copper Center Trading Post and Roadhouse [Post Office, log structures, ladders, mountain in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1146.13
(Building Federal Building, Steel Construction, Oct. 23, 1939) [construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.14
(Building Federal Building, Steel Construction, Oct. 23, 1939) [construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.3
(Building Federal Building, July 18, 1939) [bird's eye view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, looking west toward Knik Arm, with workmen and machinery. Includes original post office building and a two-story building on Third Avenue, as well as U.G. Crocker Economical Shopping Center]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.32
(Building Federal Building, Inside Construction, Apr. 23, 1940) [construction of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, finishing walls in hallway. Agfa Super Plena film stock]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.33
(Building Federal Building, Inside Construction, May 25, 1940) [construction of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, post office boxes in lobby area]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.49
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Mar. 24, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage in winter, steel construction of postal annex]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.34
(Building Federal Building, June 22, 1940) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, seen from Second Avenue and G Street, showing scaffolding, houses, parked automobiles, unpaved streets]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.281
B52 Paxson's Lodge and A.R.C. Camp, Richardson Hiway (1948) [cabins, hillside, road, gasoline pump]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.282
B52 Roadhouses and ARC Camps are always welcomed after many miles of travel without seeing any signs of human habitation. Above is Paxson's Lodge, mid-way on the Richardson Highway. PH-5 (1948) [cabins, hillside, road]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.023.088
[aerial view of Anchorage, Cook Inlet, Ship Creek, port, mountains, possibly taken from cockpit]
Collection: B2017.023
B1989.016.1146.15
(Building Federal Building, Steel Construction, Oct. 23, 1939) [construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.17
(Building Federal Building, Oct. 23, 1939) [walls with scaffodlding and piles of supplies in foreground, construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.2
#1 (Building Federal Building, July 18, 1939) [worker with wheelbarrow and construction materials at Federal Building site on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.23
(Building Federal Building, Jan. 20, 1940) [construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage in winter, showing some scaffolding, small outbuilding and shed, supplies]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.4
#4 (Building Federal Building, July 28, 1939) [construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.40
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Dec. 7, 1940) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage in winter, with supplies and sign on small shed "L.B. James General Contractor"]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.5
(Building Federal Building, Aug. 14, 1939) [construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection