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B1990.014.5.EQ.16.36
Destruction area and Mac's Foto
Keywords: damaged buildings, street lights, street signs
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.16.37
4th Ave West, pedestrians walking past David Green's Furs loooking across street towards damaged buildings.
Keywords: pedsestrians, street signs, street lights, streets
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B2007.008.17
Whale at Port Armstrong Alaska[ 5 men standing and looking at a very large whale ashore in Port Armstrong]
Keywords: whaling, industry
Collection: B2007.008
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.16.17
Steve's old photo shop, Mac's Foto
Four men standing in front of earthquake damaged Mac's Foto shop and McCutcheon Bldg on 4th couple doors west of C street.
Keywords: earthquake damaged, destoyed buildings.
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
B1990.014.5.EQ.09.14
Anchorage airport control tower crashed. 1 FAA man was killed.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_9
B1998.014.1.445
"B143 Kiddie Land" [horse with saddle in corral, rifle range, bumber cars, Chugach Mountains in the distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.18.1
4th St. D to C
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1983.091.S4176.4
Anchorage International Airport, tower in distance.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.6
House fire
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B2012.027.015
Texaco trucks [smashed truck and beached boat, the Celtic, on shore at Seward, earthquake damage, 1964]
Collection: B2012.027
B2014.005.495
ARR 11 [view down track in heavily flooded area, sign for Restricted Parking, building in background, Portage; print date May 64. Cf. .509]
Keywords: earthquake, railroads, transportation
Collection: B2014.005
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
B2012.030.3633
Fissure on "M" St. looking NE on day after 3/27/64 'quake [earthquake damage, automobile and residences in Anchorage]
Collection: B2012.030
B2014.003.6
21645 C&M Johnson (Oats Field)(Victor Animatograph)[colored lantern slide of cultivated field at harvest]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B2014.003
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.60
Anchorage Marina, Railroad Depot and Ship Creek looking towards downtown and the A/W Hotel in the distance
Keywords: fishing boats, rail cars, buildings, power lines, downtown
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.15
Damaged car on 2nd street
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B2014.005.497
ARR 63. A.J.C. 13 [ice chunks and flooding in Portage, with Diamond Jim’s sign; print date Apr 64]
Keywords: earthquake
Collection: B2014.005
B2014.005.506
ARR 55. PH [aerial of track in landslide area, Potter Hill; 1964 Earthquake; railroad]
Collection: B2014.005
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.48
Collapsed building
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1979.002.4694
"8/8/1919, Erickson farm buildings & potato field" [sleeve 60, Interior homestead, log structures, metal roof, agriculture, trees in background]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.EQ.15.7
4th Ave East to McK Bldg. Clearing rubble after EQ of March 27 1964
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_15
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.62
5th Ave East from Caterpillar with military on guard
Keywords: streets, street lights, soldier, national guard, buildings, cars
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
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.01.1.24.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.65
Earthquake-Airport, June 12, 1964 Anchorage-some earthquake ARR Rehab after EQ 64 Edited May 20, 1975 NP
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.70
Earthquake-Airport, June 12, 1964
Anchorage-some earthquake ARR Rehab after EQ 64
Edited May 20, 1975
NP
Keywords: 1st Nationional Bank exterior on 4th Ave, no earthquake damage visible
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.71
Earthquake-Airport, June 12, 1964
Anchorage-some earthquake ARR Rehab after EQ 64
Edited May 20, 1975
NP
Keywords: 1st Nationional Bank exterior on 4th Ave, no earthquake damage visible
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.80
Earthquake-Airport, June 12, 1964
Anchorage-some earthquake ARR Rehab after EQ 64
Edited May 20, 1975
NP
Keywords: appliance store interior with shoppers, no earthquake damage visible
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.81
Earthquake-Airport, June 12, 1964
Anchorage-some earthquake ARR Rehab after EQ 64
Edited May 20, 1975
NP
Keywords: appliance store interior with shopper; no earthquake damage visible
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
B1979.002.5012
Coal chute at Nenana transferring from standard to Narrow guage_Dec 11 1921 (Nenana AK 12-11-21)
Keywords: railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2012.030.3527
{4th Ave theater interior view of stage and lights as seen from back seats}
Keywords: theater, 4th ave, entertainment, anchorage
Collection: B2012.030