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B1990.014.5.EQ.15.2
Lipscomb home moving down Roguseta Drive from Turnagin
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_15
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
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
B1989.016.2012.2
Anchorage, Alaska Hewitt's Drug Photo(YMCAand USO Anchorage, 1955 copy of 2012.1)[YMCA copy photograph of image in frame]
Keywords: lodging, streets, cars
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.354.7
Murrell Sasseen crack-up, Mirow April 16th [Mirow Airlines Lockheed Vega 5B NC162W aircraft accident]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.357
B78 Copper Center Roadhouse, Richardson Hiway; Trading post, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
b2011.014.226
Two men and woman with 1920s automobile. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B2015.001.1
[Stamp on verso: Anchorage Times photograph, Feb. 16, 1981. Hot air balloons being filled at East High School during Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, with large group of spectators and Chugach Mountains in background]
Collection: B2015.001
B2015.002.01
[Fur Rondy parade marching north down 4th Ave in front of the Federal Building]
Keywords: parade
Collection: B2015.002
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.154
(catastrophe)(April 12, 1951)(Sportland Sign 4th and C)(Corner of 4th at C. N.W. early 20's Bldg was a pool hall and news stand owned by Jack Diamond. Later brought by Mr and Mrs Schodde and was ice cream parlor and news stand, in late 40's owned by man named Bittner)(Historical)
Keywords: store front, cars, shopping
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.155
(catastrophe)(1945)(Schodde's Ice Cream place at 4th and C St. NW corner)(Historical)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.156
(catastrophe)(1945)(Schodde's Ice Cream place at 4th and C St. NW corner)(Historical)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2017.021.9
Pacific Stereopticon Co. [Alaska Native men dancing and drumming, with large group of spectators, in front of building. Tinted. Tint flaking]
Collection: B2017.021
B1995.010.3096
[George and unidentified woman outside school building in Fort Yukon, Phyllis McCutcheon with camera crouching down to take photograph, signs for “U.S. Native Service School” and “Office of Indian Affairs, Speak English and Talk to the World”]
Collection: B1995.010
B2016.006.1869
[young boy dancing indoors, women and male drummers seated behind, Barrow; print date Aug 79]
Keywords: dance
Collection: B2016.006
B2017.024.3402
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; boys gather on and near overturned boat; some reading; some aiming what look like rifles; some look to right of scene; bicycle; structure; Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.019.393
(shocks of oats experimental farm fairbanks AAA)
Collection: B1995.019 John D_ (Jack) Urban Collection
B2017.024.1333
Diomede, Feb 1962 "19. Diomede girl & baby sister" [girl carries child on her back while third child stands behind them, possibly in a doorway]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.354.5
Murrell Sasseen crack-up, Mirow April 16th [Mirow Airlines Lockheed Vega 5B NC162W aircraft accident]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.458
15. West Hartford ferry, Dec. 1927 [view from ferry to buildings on shore]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.457
14. West Hartford ferry, Dec. 1927. Our only way to the village [man on ferry crossing river, church opposite]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.354.6
Murrell Sasseen crack-up, Mirow April 16th [Mirow Airlines Lockheed Vega 5B NC162W aircraft accident]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.29.003
11-2 Memorial Day parade May 30, 1939; with yellow filter [boys watch military unit marching in front of Hanson's store and Sunfreze ice cream shop; Chief Johnson totem pole; guns, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.29.003
11-2 Memorial Day parade May 30, 1939; with yellow filter [boys watch military unit marching in front of Hanson's store and Sunfreze ice cream shop; Chief Johnson totem pole; guns, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.29.001
11-2 Memorial Day parade May 30, 1939; with yellow filter [color guard marching near Hanson's store, Sunfreeze ice cream shop, children, boy on bicycle, men; Chief Johnson totem pole, structures, in background; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.29.001
11-2 Memorial Day parade May 30, 1939; with yellow filter [color guard marching near Hanson's store, Sunfreeze ice cream shop, children, boy on bicycle, men; Chief Johnson totem pole, structures, in background; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1963.016.001
(Sydney Laurence Anchorage Hotel){Sydney posing infront of several paintings with paints and easel}
Keywords: artist, painting, Sydney Laurence
Collection: B1963.016 Marie Silverman
B1990.014.2018.1.299.001
1; March 1943; Spool, thread & thimble [still life on fabric]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.299.002
1; March 1943; Spool, thread & thimble [still life on fabric]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.130.006
44-1 March 17-30 plus x 40-24; DK 20 - 13 min @ 68°; Early morning shots of Seattle, Sunday, March 17th [Street scene with automobiles, street car tracks; businesses: Seattle Post-Intelligencer; bowling alley; Rosaia Bros. Florists; Grunba(?) business sign; automobile with Washington lecense plaed: A-97379]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.130.006
44-1 March 17-30 plus x 40-24; DK 20 - 13 min @ 68°; Early morning shots of Seattle, Sunday, March 17th [Street scene with automobiles, street car tracks; businesses: Seattle Post-Intelligencer; bowling alley; Rosaia Bros. Florists; Grunba(?) business sign; automobile with Washington lecense plaed: A-97379]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1455
S38 Rifle range - Fort Richardson, Alaska (1946 postcard) [copy neg; same as .1454]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1509.20
(Fourth Avenue and F Street, northeast corner) [Anchorage street scene with businesses The Gitchell, Hotel Gitchell Cafe and H. Seidenverg Clothier. circa 1930-1940]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.224.004
70-2 Doorway of Russian mission [fence and gate in foreground; August 1941; Sitka]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.224.005
70-2 Sitka Inn [Man wearing apron on front porch of boarding house; signs: Mrs. Salo's Boarding houise, rooms: Room, Board, Meals; August 1941; Sitka]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.151.2
(catastrophe)(KENI Radio)(Anchorage Historical)
Keywords: entertainment, concert
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1963.016.162
[The Alaska Railroad Gateway to the Interior Brochure]
Collection: B1963.016 Marie Silverman
B1989.016.767.4
P-420B. Matanuska Valley. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [aerial, circa 1936?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2012.10
Panoramic Photograph of Downtown Anchorage 1948, including 4th Avenue Theatre, Masonic Temple, Old Federal Bldg, and Kimball's. National Photo and News Service image number 106482,
Keywords: Panoramic, 1948, Anchorage, Chugach, Mountains, 4th Avenue
Collection: B2012.010
B2012.10printfile
Panoramic Photograph of Downtown Anchorage 1948, including 4th Avenue Theatre, Masonic Temple, Old Federal Bldg, and Kimball's. National Photo and News Service image number 106482,
Keywords: Panoramic, 1948, Anchorage, Chugach, Mountains, 4th Avenue
Collection: B2012.010
B1989.016.2044.4
(Sydney Laurence pictures of Natives) [studio portrait of Alaska Native youth in fur parka and mukluks. double exposure with studio portrait of man. 5 x 7 nitrate negative]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2044.6
(Sydney Laurence pictures of Natives) [studio portrait of two Alaska Native children in fur parkas. same as .2044.53. copy negative]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection