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B2006.023.6866.jpg
[Dog races, Fourth Avenue, Amchorage]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1983.091.S4393.420
April 20-29, 1966 (428 negs) Gambell, St. Lawrence Island (Cutting baleen.)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.C7525.13
Bogle, Gates, Dobrin, Wakefield & Long 4th Avenue Theater 11-21-67
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1983.091.C7525.14
Bogle, Gates, Dobrin, Wakefield & Long 4th Avenue Theater 11-21-67
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1983.091.C7525.15
(Bogle, Gates, Dobrin, Wakefield & Long; 4th Avenue Theater 9-27-67) ["refreshments," interior view of concession stand, popcorn popper, ice cream case, candy, soda fountains, cash register, Coca-Cola sign, possibly ashtrash at left, waste basket at right, stairway in right background; mirrors on far wall]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1989.016.1771.2
(Portage Glacier) [lake in foreground with snow-covered mountains in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1647
T37 Anchorage, Alaska [Anchorage Hotel at corner of 4th Avenue and E Street; puddles on gravel streets, people, automobiles, Coca Cola delivery truck, Rexall Drugs, Beauty Salon, Kinik Arm and Kink in background, awnings, utility poles, suspended window cleaning platform]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.004.38091
ARR Portage rail depot was wrecked earthquake of '64, sank 4 ft., loaded cars in ice. 05-10-64. Photographer's number 38091 [Alaska Railroad cars, aerial]
Keywords: transportation, earthquake, railroads
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2131.1
(Anchorage railroad depot) [aerial view of Alaska Railroad headquarters and yards, looking northeast]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1127.2
[Friedman's Jewelers, exterior, night, window display, Anchorage?]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1512
U.S. radio station, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop [small building with large antenna]
Keywords: communications
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1544.2
(Northwestern Fisheries Co. cannery) [cannery complex of buildings and docks in winter, with mountains behind]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.164
Eustace Ziegler painting. Alaskan Indian. Z-50
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1640.1
(Cannery) [Anchorage docks on Ship Creek, with cannery complex (possibly Emard's), boats tied to pilings in foreground]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1640.2
(Cannery) [Anchorage docks on Ship Creek, with cannery complex (possibly Emard's), S.S. Sackett's Harbor, other boats and buidlings, and Cook Inlet in distance]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1651
T39 Anchorage, Alaska [looking east on 4th Avenue near 4th & L Street, birch tree, fence, and porch in right foreground; dirt street at left; dirt sidewalk; paved streets and concrete sidewalks in midground; businesses: Columbia Lumber Company, people, automobiles; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1653
T40 Anchorage Alaska (1948 postcard; 400 - 6) [copy neg; street scene looking east down 4th Avenue from between H and I Streets; automobiles; people; businesses: Piggly Wiggly, The Club, Merchant's Cafe, OK Cleaners, Carol's Music Shop, Flowers; NCC?, Karl's Drugs, 1st National Bank, 4th Avenue Theatre under construction]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2054.38
38-1940 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [man driving tractor pulling float on large flat bed trailer with woman dressed as Statue of Liberty next to eagle with spread wings, building in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1656.20
(National Bank of Alaska Branches) [bank branch in winter, Spenard? Sign in back reads "Spenard Service S_". not same building as .1656.16-19]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1656.21
(National Bank of Alaska Branches) [bank branch in winter, Spenard? Similar to .1656.15]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.37
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [parade on Fourth Avenue, passing signs for businesses including The Gitchell, Seidenverg's, U. G. Crocker, Tent Factory, Gordon's Cantilever Shoes, and Alaska Game Commission [window at left]]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.004.38006
A small creek struggles to break the bonds of winter. Photographer's number: 38006 [print date Mar 92]
Keywords: ice, snow, rivers
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.1689.1
Copper Center. Hewitt's [Copper Center Roadhouse. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1711.7
(Forest fire, Eagle River, June 5, 1950)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1711.8
(Forest fire, Eagle River, June 5, 1950)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2258.3a
(Anchorage Log Cabin Visitors Center in winter)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.6047
[Clarissa posed in field, Willow Creek Stage bus on road in background, CAA site with communications towers and building in background, Eklutna Flats, 1940s. Cf. .5945]
Collection: B1995.010
B2006.023.2347.jpg
Dog truck. Photo by Bill Devine.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B1989.016.2146.11
#11 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [two men and one woman on grandstand during parade in Anchorage, possibly reviewers]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2146.12
#12 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [group on horseback passing Alaska Transfer Co., New Method Cleaners, and Richmond's Restaurant near corner of Fourth Avenue and G Street in Anchorage]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2146.31
#31 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [spectators gathered around majorette in uniform and three horn players on City Hall lawn, Fourth Avenue, Anchorage]
Keywords: musical instruments
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.332
21. Record Mt. Sheep, Chickaloon-Nelchina District. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection