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B1990.014.5.EQ.16.39
Anchorage 4th Ave East showing razed blocks after quake of 3/27/64
Keywords: streets, street signs, street lights, cars, pedsestrians, power lines, mountains
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.3.2
store front damaged by earthquake
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
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
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.17
JC Penney Reconstruction.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.23
Mac's Foto
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.38.8
Demolition after 27 March 1964 8.7 magn earthquake. Mostly of the McCutcheon Bldg. No Print.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1990.014.5.EQ.7.15
Repair Cordova Building. 3.27.64
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_7
B2017.007.076b
[closer view of men wearing hard hats surveying damage to 4th Avenue businesses]
Collection: B2017.007
B1990.014.5.EQ.7.4
Cordova Building quake repair. 3.27.64
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_7
B1990.014.5.EQ.7.3.9
Earthquake follow up. men work Cordova repair of ruptured beam. Mac at Campbell Lake after dam broke. Edited May 20, 1975
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_7
B2017.007.049b
April 26, 1964 [construction workers making repairs between buildings across street from Alaska Sales & S ervice, 3rd Avenue and E Street]
Collection: B2017.007
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.6
Anchorage Earthquake near C street looking west towards Penney's destroyed building. Old Seattle Hotel at left, at this time called 5th Avenue Hotel.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.19
CF tractor nad trail on 8th Ave. after EQ
Keywords: buildings, damaged buildings, streets, power lines, trucks
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.68
Inlet Hotel, 4th Ave at K St. Southwest corner. Owned by Chas R. "Red" Nelson and Wife Vera
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.7.11
Earthquake Cordova building repair
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_7
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.277
(catastrophe)(March 30,1971)(18040)(Curran Youngblood vs Anch Natl Gas Corp. Explosion and Fire)(2108 West 38th Place Hole in the floor)
Keywords: fire, accident, accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2017.007.057b
[excavator moving earth between apartment or office building and houses, automobiles parked at right]
Collection: B2017.007
B2017.007.062a
[view down dropped sidewalk, houses at left, automobiles at right]
Collection: B2017.007
B1984.077.17.027
[Anchorage, view of Ship Creek, railroad yard, houses in mid-ground, locomotive in distance, smoke.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.2227.11
(Eklutna Industrial School) [building complex with road in center, small animal hutch at left, clothesline at center, mountains at left]
Keywords: education
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.31
Borden of Pure Oil Co. leaving office.
Keywords: pedestrians, cars, street signs, buildings, power lines
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.38.6
Demolition after 27 March 1964 8.7 magn earthquake. Mostly of the McCutcheon Bldg. No Print.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B2015.007.68
[large group of Alaska Native women on boardwalk next to large wooden building, some wearing traditional clothing and some wearing Western style clothing, water in distance]
Collection: B2015.007
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.28
Mac's Foto, trying to salvage what we could
Keywords: destroyed building interior
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.7
6th and C streets looking towards C from the corner of the old ambassador Club. Davids Gun Shop (L) is Wolfe Bldg with soldiers on guard to stop looting. In distance (R) is the old Crescent Hotel at SE corner of 4th and C streets, originally built in 1915-16
Keywords: earthquake; soldiers; buildings; power lines, cars
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.18
Mac and Mac's Foto, Steve saying "we will survive".
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1998.014.1.411
B118 buckner building at port of Whittier, Alaska [person walking near center of image (blurred), mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.007.12
[group portrait of Alaska Native family, with father, mother, and two children posed outdoors next to log cabin, woman wearing Athapascan style beaded mittens and parka, children wearing parkas, man wearing Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.008.456
13. West Hartford ferry landings, Dec. 1, 1927 [view across river to church, sign posted on tree at left reads “Notice, all persons crossing on this ferry do so at their own risk”]
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.43
Anchorage Harware Building damaged from the earthquake
Keywords: damaged buildings, damaged streets, street lights, street signs, power lines
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.26
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: building exterior, street signs
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.34
The Cache, at 5th Ave between D and E
Keywords: pedsestrians, power lines, street lights, damaged buildings, collapsed buildings, crane
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1984.077.23.012
Seal of Minnesota Flour [railroad platform, barrel, pallet. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2015.008.527
After fire. Horse barn, 1 manure shed, long tool shed. House in distance [damaged buildings in foreground, barn in distance. Print damaged along one edge]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.528
he burned barns, May 3, 1931 [building foundations. Cf. .1014]
Keywords: vermont, farm, farm house, fire
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.007.053a
[view down row of damaged houses, with fissure in ground, downed picket fence, communications tower in distance, automobile at right]
Collection: B2017.007
B2015.008.523
Fish pond #3, with house and barns [view from dam across pond to house in distance]
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.33
Odom Building after the earthquake at 2nd and C
Keywords: pedsestrians, damaged buildings
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B2015.007.44
[group portrait of several Alaska Native men, women, and infants posed outside a large wooden building. Original image blurry]
Keywords: children
Collection: B2015.007
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.16
JC Penney Reconstruction.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.48
Collapsed building
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.31
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: building exterior, children, school
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B2015.008.443
Flood, from our end of bridge. Ruins of 100 year old brick house at left [group of people on bank of swollen river, flooded and damaged buildings on opposite bank]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.506.1
Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, No. 28 [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.4
JC Penny's building after the quake showing structural damage and crushed car under debris.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.5.2
Earthquake damaged JC Penny's building
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14