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B1989.016.1641.5
[Rutherford's Men's Shop, interior with counter display showing clothing, hats, shoes, Santa figurine in corner, Anchorage Fourth Avenue]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1970.019.585
At Whitney section house. Back row left to right: "Doc" L.L. Hufmann, Fred Carlquist, Helen Niemi (later Mrs Fred Carlquist), Florence L. Kolb, Muriel Anderson, Anna Mans, Alex Lisko, J.J.D., Emil Pfeil [group of men and women posed in front of Alaska Railroad section house, two men holding bows and arrows, dog sitting at right]
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1989.016.1612
President Harding drives "Golden Spike" Alaska Railroad [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1617.3
(Stranberg's Home) [i.e. Strandberg, garden outside home in Anchorage]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.321.1
Anchorage from Cook Inlet [barge in foreground]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.89.7
[soldiers walking near row of Quonset huts partially buried in snowdrift, Adak?]
Keywords: military, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.89.8
[row of Quonset huts partially buried in snowdrift, Adak?]
Keywords: residences, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.012.25
Knuluk, Alaska, 1910 [village scene, with barabaras, caches, church in background. caption written on negative emulsion]
Keywords: residences, churches
Collection: B2014.012
B2016.024.005
Mary shopping, Annette, Nov. ’52 [on similar print:] Ellis Airlines, our only link to mainland, Ketchikan [women debarking from Grumman Goose airplane]
Keywords: Annette Island, people, women, Ellis Air Lines, airplanes
Collection: B2016.024
B1989.016.080.9
Louise's dog, cream-colored. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.086.2
Knik Bridge (vertical). August 1945. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.094.1
Mt. Susitna and snow bank on 3rd Ave., 1945. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1179.3
Alaska Railroad Depot & Cook Inlet, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Foto [bird's eye view of Alaska Railroad headquarters in winter, looking northwest to Cook Inlet. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1642.1
[Providence Hospital, night scene, exterior entrance, Christmas lights and decorations]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.65.6
[soldiers wearing snowshoes and backpacks stopped on ascent, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.66.13
[cabin and watchtower in mountainous area, man standing near cabin at left]
Keywords: residences, hiking, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.012.9
[four men and dog team with large sled stopped outside building, two men wearing full-length fur coats]
Keywords: clothing, transportation
Collection: B2014.012
B1989.016.1613
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [two pilots standing next to airplane]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.473
The Silver Trail [dog team postcard. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.10
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
b2009.057.12
[Anchorage. Foot race, spectators along street.]. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative.
Collection: B2009.057 Pyatt
B1989.016.1586
(Beaver Skins) [dried animal pelts on wall]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.1
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.14
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [aerial of float plane on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.15
[Aerial of mud flats in Westchester Lagoon - Fish Creek - Cook Inlet area, now part of the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, 2013]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.16
[Aerial of mud flats in Westchester Lagoon - Fish Creek - Cook Inlet area, now part of the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, 2013]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.2
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.3
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.4
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.5
Christensen Air Service, 3 WACO airplanes, Westchester Lagoon area, Anchorage [in flight over Cook Inlet mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1904.2
The Army Express. c. Geo. L. Johnson, Anchorage, Alaska [man with sled and dog team stopped on trail in winter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1969.8
(Christmas Card, Greetings from the Northland) (cache) [Greeting card photograph of a cache in the woods]
Keywords: cache, cabin, card, mountains, snow
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1957.007.2
[Russ Merrill's Travel Air C-194 airplane with floats on mud flats, man with camera on flats, pilot in cockpit, two other men by tail, Anchorage Air Transport Inc.]
Collection: B1959.x_001 Government Hill Housing Projects / B1957_007 Russel Hyde Merrill Papers
B2014.012.22
[man and three children on sled with dog team stopped on ice]
Keywords: transportation, animals
Collection: B2014.012
B1989.016.477.17
[Aerial of mud flats in Westchester Lagoon - Fish Creek - Cook Inlet area, now part of the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, 2013]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1409
1. Anchorage, Alaska. "Hewitt's" [Fourth Avenue at E Street, looking northeast. Anchorage, 1940's, with Rexall Drugs and Hewitt's Drug Store. A military truck sits parked at the curb next to a sign reading Pick Up Military Personnel Here. Other automobiles and pedestrians can also be seen. Similar image in Sidney Hamilton Collection, B1976.082.26. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.11
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.12
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.13
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.012.23
APPA Cannery, Aug. 10, 1910, Snag Point, Alaska, [view down dock to building complex]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B2014.012
B1989.016.2048.1
[musher with bib #8 racing 9-dog team along snowy trail, basket with advertisement for Surechamp Feed and Alaskan Kennels, Chugach Mountains in background, Anchorage Fur Rendezvous?]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection