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B1986.096.274.5
Elks Youth Day, May 2, 1973
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1979.002.4844
{boilers and heavy machinery in large room}
Keywords: industry
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.2306.4
(Hewitt's) [interior with saleswoman helping female patron at cosmetics counter. cf. 2306.2]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2073.12
(Anchorage Houses, Nov. 1964, 12th and S, Yale and Stanford, Columbia and Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge) [single level wood frame home, winter, with chain-link fence in foreground and Cook Inlet in background]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2073.13
(Anchorage Houses, Nov. 1964, 12th and S, Yale and Stanford, Columbia and Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge) [single level wood frame home, winter, with chain-link fence in foreground and Cook Inlet in background]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
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
B1989.016.2306.2.5
(Hewitt's) [interior with magazine racks and paintings on display]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2098.1
[street scene at Fourth Avenue and E Street in Anchorage, with traffic light and automobiles outside Bevers & Pfeil Building and Logemann Bldg., with businesses including Hewitt's Drug Store, Zenith Radio, Cheechako Tavern]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.325
B64 Public school bldg. Cordova, Alaska [from copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2095
23. Ft. Gibbon, Alaska, 12-21-20. By H.A.W. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [time lapse of winter solstice sun. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2307.1.2
[street scene of Fourth Avenue at night, automobiles on street, neon signs for businesses including Polar Bar and Anchorage Grill]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2008.029.3
[Steamship Prince Rupert at Ketchikan]
Keywords: transportation, Inside Passage
Collection: B2008.029
B1989.016.2096
(Dog Team on Goose Lake) [musher driving team across frozen lake, passenger in basket, Chugach Mountains in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2097
Inside Passage by Moonlight [fishing boat on water, with snow-capped mountains in distance]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2307.1.1
[street scene of Fourth Avenue at night, automobiles and pedestrians on street, Anchorage Fur Rendezvous banner above]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.1183
[Clarissa and unidentified woman panning for gold on silty beach]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.2187.2
Lomen Bros. Nome #19 [Native woman wearing Western-style skirt and boots and parka with fur trim and geometric decoration, with braided hair and loop earrings, carrying small child on her back in a hide bag]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2183.19
(Dog races, Fur Rondy 1952) [bird's eye of musher with seven-dog team on Fourth Avenue at E Street, passing spectators and businesses including Bill's Electric Supply and McVicker's]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2286.5
(Bob Reeve and plane) [man leaning out airplane cockpit window]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.308.004
90-6 Nome [view looking over sea ice toward Nome; April 1943]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.90.2
[climbers stopped in snowstorm, McKinley rescue squad operation?]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1768
T91 Dawson Creek, British Columbia; where the Alaska Hiway begins (milepost in street) [street scene; automobiles, military-style vehicles paked on street; businesses: Hutchison's Musk (?) Sotre, Dawson Creek Bakery, Mile zero Hotel, Cafe Hotel, Taxi, The Alaskan Cleaners Dry Cleaning, Coca-Cola, cafe]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.90.16
[group of soldiers preparing for hike in mountainous area in winter, snowshoes and backpacks on ground, Willow Creek area?]
Keywords: military, hiking
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.2038
"T250 Anchorage 4th Ave at Hewitt's" [street scene; similar to .2035]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2031.1
(Anchorage, Fourth Avenue, 1958) [bird's eye view looking east to McKinley Apartments and Chugach Mountains, with Anchorage All-America City banner hanging over street and signs for businesses including 515 Club, Hewitt's Drugs, National Bank of Alaska]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1740
(T71 Cordova, Alaska; Cordova Main Street) [street scene, similar to .1738, including two men sitting on a bench; dust from automobile on street]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.21.003
5-5 weathervane [ladder affixed to wall leading to weather reading instruments, possibly anemometer; mountain in background; Ketchikan, 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.21.003
5-5 weathervane [ladder affixed to wall leading to weather reading instruments, possibly anemometer; mountain in background; Ketchikan, 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B90.14.8.1.ANC.8.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC.8
B1989.016.2073.15
(Anchorage Houses, Nov. 1964, 12th and S, Yale and Stanford, Columbia and Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge) [single level wood frame home, winter, with two automobiles in driveway and Cook Inlet in background]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.20
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [small room with desk, chairs, map of Kenai-Homer area on wall, bookshelves, view down hallway]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.66.004
25-1; Aug. 1939; Pan X - 32-20; Dev. in DK 20-28 min @ 65 percent; Midge's baby - Carol Gale Marsh [infant wearing diaper and holding ring toy laying on blanket]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.66.004
25-1; Aug. 1939; Pan X - 32-20; Dev. in DK 20-28 min @ 65 percent; Midge's baby - Carol Gale Marsh [infant wearing diaper and holding ring toy laying on blanket]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2183.14
(Dog races, Fur Rondy 1952) [musher with bib #15 leading six-dog team down Fourth Avenue past spectators, Fur Rendezvous banners and businesses including The Gitchell, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, Dr. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son, Reed's, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2197.4
The snow scraper, Front St., Nome, Alaska. Lomen Bros #1126 [Pair of horses pulls a plow along snow-covered city street between buildings; Nome Fire Dept. building on left; Sheldon Hotel on right. copy neg, original caption cropped from image]
Keywords: snow removal
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.8.1.ANC.8.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC.8
B2015.008.905a
[bird’s eye view of town along railroad, tracks in foreground, water tank and railroad
station at left, with wood-sided buildings, walled tents and log cabins, Chitina? 3 copies]
Keywords: railroad, cabins, mountain, town
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.024.2400
Kotzebue, November 1969 [winter scene with child wearing parka walking up a beach next to umiak frame, boats; people walking on shore ice; steel drums (containers) buried in rocks at lower left]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.020.004
[Army tanks and other equipment in parade on Fifth Avenue, passing businesses including 76 station, Polar Hotel]
Collection: B2017.020
B1998.014.1.634
Big Diomede, USSR, as seen from LIttle Diomede, USA, Frank Morgan photo "E52" [overturned boats stored on supports, dogs, sea ice, open water; caption is covered with section of film affixed with cellophane tape; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley