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B1989.016.2142.1
P-288. Hewitt's (Canned Fruit Display) [woman standing near table with canned produce and pressure cooker, Matanuska Colony? copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1987.086.008
Canneries. Cannery ship loading canned salmon Alaska. Chignik, Alaska.
Collection: B1987.086 Evelyn Lessel Postcard Collection
B1962.001.994
St. Petersburg Canning. Wrangle Narrows [Canneries; Petersburg; Wrangell Narrows] [Tlingit territory]
Keywords: Canneries, St. Petersburg Canning, Wrangell Narrows, Petersburg, Tlingit territory, Southeast Alaska, Piers, Wharves, Buildings
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.1757.3
(Kenai Lake, Snug Harbor) [boat tied to tree on shore, cans and boxes on beach]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.899.1
P-505. Hewitt's Photo [Sourdough Homemakers Club canning display, Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.899.2
P-505B. Hewitt's Photo [Sourdough Homemakers Club canning display, Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.007.008
[interior of store, displaying art, bottled and canned goods, and rolled items, cf. .5]
Collection: B2013.007
B1989.016.1102.2
P-105. Hewitt's [interior of Koslosky's store, with cash register, canned goods and produce displays]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.3
P-488. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts and canning display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1088.2
M-23. Matanuska Valley Fair. Hewitt's Photo Shop (1937) [Sourdough Club canning display]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1102.1
[Bud and Harry Koslosky at cash register with canned goods, store displays, Koslosky's store in Palmer, 1936]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.066.272
Moving camp, Kokhanok [children on beach near pile of supplies and Blazo cans; print date Oct 62]
Keywords: children
Collection: B2013.066
B1975.175.661
Canneries. 161. Alaska - Indian. Metlakatla. Can-making machinery. Annette Islands Canning Company. 1938. Ray B. Dame.
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1975.175.663
Canneries. 163. Alaska - Indian. Metlakatla. Vat of salmon. Annette Islands Canning Company. 1938. Ray B. Dame.
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1975.175.664
Canneries. 164. Alaska - Indian. Metlakatla. Can-sealing machine. Annette Islands Canning Company. 1938. Ray B. Dame.
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1975.175.660
Canneries. 160. Alaska - Indian. Metlakatla. Salmon packing machinery. Annette Islands Canning Company. 1938. Ray B. Dame.
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1995.014.57.10
Pete Knutson packing water [man carrying two metal cans suspended from wooden neck yoke in winter, river in distance]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.3395
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; two children stand in doorway to structure; balloon; trash cans; objectsstored on roof; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.029.1857
[man and children sitting next to drummers, children with cans of Crush soda pop; print date Mar 79. Cf. .1836a]
Collection: B2017.029
B2017.029.1858
[man and children sitting next to drummers, children with cans of Crush soda pop; print date Mar 79. Cf. .1836a]
Collection: B2017.029
B1975.175.659
Canneries. 159. Alaska - Indian. Metlakatla. Indian women cleaning salmon. Annette Islands Canning Company. 1938. Ray B. Dame.
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1975.175.662
Canneries. 162. Alaska - Indian. Metlakatla. Indian women cleaning salmon. Annette Islands Canning Company. 1938. Ray B. Dame.
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1989.016.765.8
P-496. Hewitt's Photo (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [Boys & Girls Department crafts and canning display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.820.1
P-338. 8-7-36. Hewitt's (Store in Palmer, Folio 26) [interior of store with produce display, canned goods on shelves]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.72.9
[soldiers gathered around camp fire built in large puddle, one man warming his hands over cans suspended over fire]
Keywords: military, camping
Collection: B1995.014
B2022.005.144
[Two Indigenous Alaskan women playfully posing with trash cans; two women in (likely Civil Air Patrol) unforms nearby; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Women, Play, Playfully, Fun, Pose, Trash can, Uniform, Clothing, CAP, C.A.P., Civil Air Patrol, Buildings
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1979.002.4892
(Cronin #25 )(Pete Smith vending water with steam boiler following day he picked up honey cans)( 1918){horse and carriage loaded with cargo}
Keywords: buisness, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4.287.1a
(Al Campbell, Stores Dept., hauling away records to be destroyed. April 1961.) [Man moving boxes, hat, sunglasses, garbage cans, not Al Campbell]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2017.020.124
Fall 59 Eagle River picnicking [Chinese American family eating at picnic table next to river, canned peaches on table, Sun sitting at left]
Collection: B2017.020
B1993.012.59
1935, Gil on way to Poorman [man standing next to Mirow Air Service airplane tail number NC14191 in winter, cans on snow, men servicing engine]
Keywords: transportation, aviation
Collection: B1993.012 Lou & Gilbert Adamec Collection
B1975.175.665
Canneries. 165. Alaska - Indian. Metlakatla. Inspecting cans. Annette Islands Canning Company. 1938 Ray B. Dame. Left - Mary eleanor Hudson Haldane. Across from Mary Eleanor: Annie Ridley Perez, Matilda Booth (with white hat). Working at "patching table." Each can must weigh one pound. Scale to check weight in front of Mary Eleanor.
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1989.016.900.2
P-506. Hewitt's Photo (Raffle Display) [booth with canned goods and sign for Matanuska Valley's First Annual Fair and Alaska's 58th New Salmon Pack Festival]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.003.079
“Anvik, Christ Church Mission" Typical winter dress [two young children in fur parkas and mukluks sitting on pile of lumber, can of Hormel Ham and other canned goods at left]
Collection: B2019.003
B1989.016.903
P-511. Hewitt's Photo (Raffle Display) [two women at booth with canned goods and sign for Matanuska Valley's First Annual Fair and Alaska's 58th New Salmon Pack Festival]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.017.312
536. Hewitt’s Drug [commercial slide. Woman and child sitting on floor of house, woman feeding child, possibly Pilot Bread, firewood, pots and pans, and canned goods visible; no date]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B1986.004.0689
Mesdames – Edward Moss, Johan Johnson, Henry Jensen, Roy Wilkes, Rudolph Leander [?] [?]s the progress is speeded up, and the colonist cabins are quickly being constructed, the cooperation and spirit among the colonists increases daily. Here are shown five of the colonists women who have just completed a days canning of carrots grown in the community garden. (L to R) [five Matanuska colonists pose with cans and bowls of carrots; tent in background; 1935]
Collection: B1986.004 Odsather Collection
B2000.017.028
[women and children seated behind plastic windbreak set up on tundra, woman in foreground preparing food, cans, paper towels, and other supplies on ground nearby, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2009.017.1984.06.23
©1984 Saturday June 23, 1984 [man painting sign ‘Welcome to the Little Su, Gunfire Hazard Today is Extreme’ jumping into garbage dump with beer cans and dog food to avoid armed motorists]
Collection: B2009.017
B2019.008.32
Jane, Alice, Helen, Virginia & Mary [Alaska Native woman and four children sitting behind counter, decorated cake on counter, plates and canned goods on shelves in background, cash register at right]
Collection: B2019.008
B1990.014.5.Sp.7.003
2 1971 54 41030; Sp; Kids in ski lodge; 29 February 1954 [interior scene with banches, ski posters; warming stove; milk cans at lower right; note that there was no February 29 in 1954]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Sports
B2018.021.689
Alaskan photography by Everett J. Wilde, Tetlin [Alaska Native family eating meal inside canvas tent, woman with chin tattooing sitting next to cups, plates, cans, and food on board, people sitting on mattress in back]
Collection: B2018.021
B2018.021.245
Rondy, ’54 [three men and woman sitting at table, one man wearing Fur Rendezvous pin, one man possibly Chinese American, cans of Hamm’s Beer and Pabst Blue Ribbon on table, probably Miners & Trappers Ball]
Keywords: Fur Rendezvous
Collection: B2018.021
B1991.011.573
Newtok; Alex and Ida Hunter; Ida was a teacher [family posing instide structure; identified in 2019 clockwise from left top as: Ida, Alexis, Pete (infant); Richard, Rosemary, and Marilyn; table with dishes and canned goods at left; possible stove at right likely 1957]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2017.020.125
Fall 59 Eagle River picnicking [Chinese American family eating at small card table outdoors, Sun sitting in center, canned peaches and Coca-Cola on table, man at left eating with chopsticks, Quaker Oats container filled with chopsticks on table, automobile in background]
Collection: B2017.020
B2017.024.2009
Kenai Peninsula, April 1969 [log cabin and cache; caribou antlers; supplies hanging under gable end; snowshoes; saw; fuel cans; spruce tree leaning aganist roof; weather reporting equipment (?) atop antenna tower; ladder; mountains in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2018.021.103
Piper PA 20 N7080K on Ch’aloon duck flats, Cliff on right, 50s [four men standing next to airplane, two holding ducks, two holding cans of beer, Cliff Fuglestad at right, Chickaloon River duck hunting] [Ahtna, Nay’dini’aa Na’ Kayax]
Keywords: Nay’dini’aa Na’ Kayax, Chickaloon, Flats, Ch'aloon Flats, River, Plane, Piper PA-20, Piper PA 20, N7080K, Bush, Flying, Duck, Hunt, Hunting, Hunters, Men, Cliff Fuglestad, Wally Wellenstein, Wallace Wellenstein, Wallace J. Wellenstein, Wally J. Wellenstein, Wellenstein
Collection: B2018.021
B2018.005.56
Frank Pratt, Jack Wade, Alaska [man sitting inside cabin on bear fur draped over armchair, books lining shelves, magazine advertisements pasted to walls, cans from Hills Bros. coffee, radio and hurricane lamp at left, Roycroft symbol on box behind lamp]
Collection: B2018.005
B1998.014.1.1372
PT8 Cordova, Alaska, is in the center of a scenic wonderland. Mining, logging and trapping are profitable here; however, fishing is the main indurstry with the accent on clam and crab canning. [view down street, businesses including clothing store, theatre, barber pole; woman walking on far right; service men at left; dog crossing street at intersection; automobiles, Jeeps]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
