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B1962.001A.138007
(E283)(dupe) Copper River Natives Alaska (Horse Creek Mary in the middle)
Keywords: native alaskan, portrait
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B2015.008.893
Soldier from Ft. Liscum getting ice from Shoup Glacier, 1914 [distant view of rowboat
pulled up to moraine, man part way up moraine, seracs overhead]
Keywords: glacier, seracs
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.877
Chitistone Divide, G.W. Hardy’s horses [three men posed with two horses in pass. Poor
quality print]
Keywords: pack horse, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.742
332.4. White River from Russell Glacier, Alaska. Scolai Pass. 8.22.16 [view down glacial
moraine through Skolai Pass, river in distance. Proof print]
Keywords: Russell Glacier, Skolai Pass, White River
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.755
336.4. Toby Creek, Chitistone tributary, Alaska. 9.2.16 [scenic of gravel riverbed. Proof
print]
Keywords: Chitistone Valley
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.744
332.8. Russell Glacier, Alaska. 8.22.16 [view up glacial moraine, men with pack horses in
foreground. Proof print]
Keywords: pack horse, glacier, Russell Glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1962.001A.138
Copper River Natives, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E283 [verso:] Horse Creek Mary (father was Russian) [studio portrait of two Ahtna men and one woman. Ahtena Indians] [Indigenous Alaskans, likely Ahtna. Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Ahtena, Indigenous, Man, Woman, Portrait, Studio, Copper River, Atna, BIPOC, Russian, Horse Creek Mary, P.S. Hunt
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1979.002.Album1.35
M-54. Between Seward & Cook Inlet. W. F. Milliken [mountains and Turnagain Arm, ship in far distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.735
326.8. Nizina Lake ice, Alaska. 7.18.16 [view down river valley, ice chunks on beach in foreground. Proof print]
Keywords: glacier, Nizina Lake
Collection: B2015.008
B1962.001A.139
Copper River Natives, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E284 [verso:] Horse Creek Mary. [studio portrait of two Ahtna men and one woman, same people as in B1962.001.138a. Ahtena Indians] [Mary's father was Russian. Indigenous Alaskans, likely Ahtna. Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Ahtena, Indigenous, Man, Woman, Portrait, Studio, Copper River, Atna, BIPOC, Russian, Horse Creek Mary, P.S. Hunt
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1979.002.Album1.309
Looking down Susitna River. D. L. Reaburn [view from boat down river, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.2592
"Map of Mexico Guatimala [sic]" [1829 map; Guatemala]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.Album1.196
Million and a half dollar bridge at Miles Glacier, mile 49, C. R. & N. W. Ry. P. S. Hunt J1893 [view of Miles Glacier Bridge, Copper River & Northwestern Railway, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.757
337.6. Camp on Chitistone. 9.7.16 [view across riverbed to small tents in wooded area.
Proof print]
Keywords: camp
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.271
R7-1. Ship Creek Harbor [two rowboats on shore in foreground, other boats moored in Cook Inlet, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.265
R33-7. "Chulitna" + barge [riverboat and barge at mouth of Ship Creek, other boats visible moored in Cook Inlet, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.266
R30-3. Ship Creek [view of mouth of river looking southeast, two men in canoe and man standing in water on mudflats next to piles of boxes, riverboat in background, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Anchorage, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.318
Temporary camp, D. L. Reaburn. R15-5. D. L. Reaburn [group of men standing at makeshift table eating, short fir trees in background, railroad exploration or construction camp, probably Matanuska Valley or Kenai Peninsula, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.33
M-25. Pack train. W. F. Milliken [men on horseback leading group of pack horses down gravel bank of creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.288
R32-5. Ship Creek Camp [four men sitting on bench in clearing, two log buildings in background, one with tarped roof, tall birch or cottonwood behind buildings, railroad exploration, circa 1914. Original image blurred]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.277
R17-7. Mike Sullivan's cabin, Portage Glacier. R. J. Weir ["Portage Glacier" crossed out in pencil. Distant view of homestead at base of glacier, log cabin and tent at right, second cabin at left, rowboat on gravel bar in center, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, houses, residences
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.295
R30-6. R. N. Mayer [man fishing in river with tall fir and deciduous trees on banks, Ship Creek? railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2018.023.060a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “58” “…ld Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Day Creek, Nome, Alaska” [likely Wild Goose Co.; miners at sluice boxes, water, equipment; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.060b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “58” “…ld Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Day Creek, Nome, Alaska” [verso of slide: likely Wild Goose Co.; miners at sluice boxes, water, equipment; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023