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B1984.118.114
"The Cheechakos" The first and only feature Produced in Alaska Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation
Collection: B1984.118 Chechakos
B1989.016.722.3
Stony Pass [road passing over bridge with village buildings on both sides of river, log cabins and two-story frame building. McKinley Park area?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.017.1989.03.30
how is it poosible for this ship to be in this bottle?
Keywords: exxon valdez, evos, Anchorage Daily News, political, cartoons, comics
Collection: B2009.017
B1998.014.1.1268
(O73 Ketchikan, Totem with the "guilt complex" [Pointing Figure totem in right foreground, Saxman Totem Park]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2087
King Island, copyright 1986 [Scene at hunting camp; people eating, sitting under umiak, supplies, guns]
Collection: B2017.024
B2022.005.192
[Indigenous Alaskan man scraping frost from truck windshield; puppy in foreground]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Man, Winter, Snow, Frost, Scraping, Scrape, Windshield, Frozen, Truck, Transportation, Puppy, Dog
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1983.091.S0171.R08
Stock 0171 - R01; no date; Eskimos, close ups (women and man ice fishing; negs marked R-71) [woman sits on straw while fishing; small fish lays against bag]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.1956.3
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Ice Blocks, from Bootleggers Cove)[Cook Inlet, Sleeping Lady, as seen from Bootleggers Cove, Anchorage, AK.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
AEC.L16
AECN.X20 June 4"/16(Subjects in photo listed on back 1.FA Hansen, 2.Anton Anderson, 3.Hon Dan Sutherland, 4. Freud W Wood, 5. Judge Leopold David, 6. John H Robinson, 7. Joe Conroy, 8. Dr EE Blyth)[ 26 men standing by stream with water wheel]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1978.075.05
[Two Girls Café] Birthday party-The Koslosky children and the Baylis girls were present, as well as Ted and Freda Carrol. Also Gerald Shucklin
Collection: B1978.075 Carroll Collection
B1998.014.1.1267
O73 The totem with the "guilt" complex {Ketchikan guilty complex totem ([?] figure)} [Pointing Figure totem, Saxman Totem Park; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.019
2317(9_17_14)(10am)(Towards Golden){two indiviuals in a boat in the middle of the fiord with stunted weathered tree in foreground}
Keywords: Prince William Sound, Glaciers, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.004.18690
(Alyeska's Trans Alaska Pipeline in the Alaska Range)(18690)
Keywords: pipeline, mountains, Alaska Range, winter
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.1956.1
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Ice Blocks, from Bootleggers Cove)[Cook Inlet, Sleeping Lady, as seen from Bootleggers Cove, Anchorage, AK.
Keywords: ice, mountains, inlet
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.007.538
May 16, 1991; photographer number 00353.013.12-7; Alaskan Native Yupik Eskimo children/ Togiak, Alaska [four children at railing of boardwalk; road, automobiles, and structures in the background]
Collection: B2019.007
B2009.017.1987.10.01
Oil! We found Oil!!! You idiot..This is groundwater... News item: 70% of known groundwater contamination in Alaska caused by petroleum products Thursday Oct 1, 1987
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, comics, cartoons, political
Collection: B2009.017
B1989.016.1955.4
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Anchorage, 4th Ave April 6, 1953) [View down 4th Ave looking NE towards the Chugach Mtns.
Keywords: cars, street lights, street signs, streets, buildings, mountains
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1955.5
(Anchorage, 4th Ave copy)[copy photograph including wood frame showing 4th Ave looking NE towards the Chugach Mtns.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1955.6
( Anchorage, 4th Ave copy)[View down 4th Ave looking NE towards the Chugach Mtns]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1955.7
( Anchorage, 4th Ave copy)[View down 4th Ave looking NE towards the Chugach Mtns]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.007.540
May 16, 1991; Native kids, Yupik kids, Togiak, 4 girls, whale jaw, dog; MR; photographer's number2-T4-17 [children pose on whale bone; puppy; structures in background]
Collection: B2019.007
B2022.001.021
Anthony “Bunch” Evans, Anthony’s daughter, Jacqueline Evans, Melphine Evans, Coco Evans at funeral for Mayfield Evans’ youngest brother, Columbus, 2011
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Family, Anthony Evans, Anthony "Bunch" Evans, Daughter, Jacqueline Evans, Jacque Evans, Coco Evans, Funeral, Gathering
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2017.024.3404
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; boys lie or sit atop overturned boat reading or studying near structure; Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.1953
(Turnagin Arm) [Alaska railroad as it winds along turnagin arm looking west south west]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1954.1
(Anchorage High School Auditorium Fire, March 1953)[A very blurry photograph of firemen on the scene of fire]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1954.2
(Anchorage High School Auditorium Fire, March 1953)[A very blurry photograph of firemen on the scene of fire]
Keywords: fire, firemen
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1954.3
(Anchorage High School Auditorium Fire, March 1953)[A very blurry copy photograph including wood frame showing firemen on the scene of fire bystanders watching]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.752
Alaska Silver Fox. 50, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [fox in pen at farm, probably Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1980.050.19
(4x5 copy neg)(41){Native man standing on board walk dressed in traditional clothes holding an ornate staff and carved bird}
Keywords: traditional dress, native man
Collection: B1980.050 Roy Barron
B1989.016.1956.2
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Ice Blocks, from Bootleggers Cove)[Cook Inlet, Sleeping Lady, as seen from Bootleggers Cove, Anchorage, AK.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.061a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “62” [caption] “Rocking on Nome Beach” [three men using minding equipment in water, cart, sluicebox, rocker box; structures in background; boats or possibly dredges in distance; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.5.People.20.17
(People Rondy Queens Rondy Queen McClain presenting gold coronet to Wm Bays (L) Bob Renkert)
Keywords: FurRondy
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B2018.023.061b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “62” [verso of slide; caption] “Rocking on Nome Beach” [three men using minding equipment in water, cart, sluicebox, rocker box; structures in background; boats or possibly dredges in distance; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.275
Alaska daisies. B-13, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1396.3
51. Alaska cache. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska / Alaska cache. G.L.J. / Alaska cache [log cache. captions two and three crossed out on neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1370
Knik Bridge, Palmer Highway [cottonwood trees in foreground. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection