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B1990.014.5.EQ.16.11
Inlet Hotel- old city edifice
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1983.091.S4176.49
Earthquake damaged houses near L street.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.38
4th Ave quake damaged area in front of the D&D bar and cafe
Keywords: damaged buildings, damaged streets, cars, power lines, street lights, street signs
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.30
Mac's Foto
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
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
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
B2017.007.069b
[Bird’s eye view of Anchorage from Westward Hotel looking northwest. Close-up of Port of Anchorage in center, Kaiser Permanente Cement tanks at left, Cold Storage and Ketchikan Spruce Mills in foreground. Has print]
Collection: B2017.007
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
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
B1989.016.149
Sydney Laurence painting, ocean and mountains (seascapes)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
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.16.13
Back side of the Inlet Hotel
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.15.15
Rebuilding J.C. Penney
Keywords: cranes, construction, trucks, building
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_15
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.41
Anchorage Harware Building damaged
Keywords: damaged buildings, damaged streets, cars, collapsed buildings
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1983.091.S4176.17
The First Federal Savings and Loan Bldg on C Street, between Fourth and Fifth Ave a short time after the 1964 earthquake. Photograph shows the collapsed front of bank, crushed car from debris and people wandering the street.
Keywords: earthquake
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.1762
(T88 Trading post at Teslin, YT) [Yukon Territory, BYN Bus Lines bus parked in front of structure, men waiting on porch, church steeple in background; gasoline pump,boardwalk]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.006.lee.pyong.8331.8
Pyong Lee, Tea Leaf. Invoice 8331, 1984 [group portrait of owners of Tea Leaf Chinese Restaurant, standing in office, Anchorage visible out window in background]
Collection: B2017.006
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.1.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B2016.004.1134
.1134-1138 – Winds raked Anchorage. Official Entry, Best Photo Series, Alaska Press Club Competition 1980 [Trifold mount. Five images from photo feature on November 1979 windstorm. Entry blank and original clipping adhered to back of mount.] This fence, like many others in Muldoon, was blown flat and now is nothing but a series of gates.
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.175
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, construction
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.46
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: power lines, buisness sign, building exterior
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.7
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. Views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: building exterior
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1998.014.1.1734
(T69 Cordova, off city dock, 1948) [similar to .1733]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.22
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, cars, power lines, mountains
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.47
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: cars, building exterior, power lines
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1998.014.1.1954
T152 Alaska Championship dog races, starting point 4th Ave (T192, Anchorage) [winter street scene, Fur Rendezvous banner; musher, dogs on snow; men, women, children, spectators; automobiles, businesses; McKinley Building in background; Chugach Mountains in distance; copy neg; damaged: emulsion layer cracking and separating from support]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1998.014.1.1950
T188 (Anchorage, 4th Ave, Winter, 1952; caption: Newest skyline along Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska) [street scene looking east from 4th and C Street; women walking at far right; automobiles; bus #40 “Spenard Area,” license plate 53480; businesses: The Mint Bar, Fly ATA; Bar Corral, Denali Theater, Aleutian Gardens Cocktails, Fine Food, Dancing; Lido Café, Dick’s Lounge, Blue Moon Hotel; Aleutian Lanes Bowling; Monty’s Furniture & Clothing; Blue Mirror Bar Lounge; Alaska Cleaners; Hotel; City [?]ke’s Cocktail Lounge, Barber Shop, Shower, Baths; McKinley Buliding in background; Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.39
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: cars, building exterior, power lines, street signs, streets
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.58
Core drilling near A/W Hotel, 75' deep
Keywords: crane, trucks, tower, construction worker, demolition
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1998.014.1.1928
T172 Road thru Mt. View (Anchorage; The Spot on right) street scene at curve in road, winter; automobiles; Artesian Trailer Court sign at left; businesses: Auto Repair, Batteries, Garage; mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.27
Pedestrians and National Guardsmen walking along 4th Ave East in front of the Northern Commercial Bldg
Keywords: pedsestrians, buildings, national guard soldiers, damaged buildings
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.32
Denali Theater after the EQ
Keywords: damaged buildings, street lights
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16