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B1989.016.879.1
P-137. Matanusk Valley Colonist's Home. P-137, Hewitt's Photo Shop [two story log home in Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.105.1
[scenic of coastline, marsh in foreground, buildings on rise at left, mountains in distance, Adak?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.102.001
37-5 Exteriors at 1055 Stedman St [Ketchikan; January 1940; street scene; structures; boardbalks; New England Fish Co. in left center; automobile in background; city in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.102.001
37-5 Exteriors at 1055 Stedman St [Ketchikan; January 1940; street scene; structures; boardbalks; New England Fish Co. in left center; automobile in background; city in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.879.2
A Colonist's Cabin, Matanuska Valley. P-143, Hewitt's Photo Shop [log home in Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.915
P-527B. 9/22/36. Hewitt's Photo (Haying Time) [two men with horse-drawn wagon gathering hay from field in Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.105
(catastrophe)(Lido Hotel Fire Anchorage){fire men on scene of burning building}
Keywords: fire, fire truck, fireman
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1995.010.4940
[Wien Consolidated Airlines float on parade, man sitting in Eskimo kayak, woman sitting in sled frame, two young boys in back, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.008.399
Hiving a swarm of bees [person wearing beekeeper veil bending tree branch over net, box on ground at right]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.2239
"Pribilof seal" [Sea lions gathered on rocky shore; additional sea lions in water, waves]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.919
P-531. 9/22/36. Hewitt's Photo (Grading & Sorting Potatoes) [men outside log building with conveyor belt and crates]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.391
In a month they will have eaten every spear of grass [sheep in pasture]
Collection: B2015.008
B1973.079.56
[unidentified ship on the water, with mountain slopes in the background]
Keywords: ships, shipping, transportation
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1989.016.1319
Alaskan lupin. Hewitt's, 85 [lupine and birch trees]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1606.2
A-53. Valdez, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [view of town from water, docks at right, snow-covered mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.916
P-528. Matanuska Valley Farming. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [horse team pulling man on plough or seeder]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.S3017.129
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. Walrus on distant floe.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.1601.6
117. Teachers Home, Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [automobiles parked outside of wood frame building in trees, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.917.1
P-529B. 9/22/36. Hewitt's Photo (Clearing Land) [brush pile in clearing, man on equipment in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.917.2
P-11. Hewitt's (Clearing Land) [men clearing field with axes and equipment, water tanks in background, Matanuska Valley?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.918
P-530. 9/22/36. Hewitt's Photo (Grading Potatoes) [men outside barn with sacks and crates]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.013.10
[people passing three-story log building, boy at right carrying snowshoe, probably Pioneer Hotel, Knik]
Keywords: businesses, residences
Collection: B2014.013
B2015.008.400
Bees swarming on an apple bough [similar to .399. Print badly faded]
Collection: B2015.008
B2018.023.074a
[from verso of side “Carlisle Packing Co.; Cannery; Cordova, Alaska” view of skiffs, boats, shore, structures, pier, mountains in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2014.013.11
[man with mustache wearing suspenders carrying cat on shoulders, log cabin in background, sawhorse at right, Knik?]
Keywords: animals, clothing, residences
Collection: B2014.013
B2014.019.447
299. Nome, Siberian coast, Gambell. McCutcheon’s Foto, Anchorage [Alaska Native women and children posed outdoors]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.019
B1989.016.134.3
Sydney Laurence painting, Rock Mt. McKinley.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.149.002
49-2 Panorama of Ketchikan, meter reading - no filter [view of waterfront; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.149.003
49-2 Panorama of Ketchikan, meter reading - no filter [view of waterfront; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2018.023.074b
[from verso of side “Carlisle Packing Co.; Cannery; Cordova, Alaska” verso of slide: view of skiffs, boats, shore, structures, pier, mountains in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1403
(S13 Fishing where there is fish in Alaska; 1946 postcard) [same as .1402]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.4904
"711/1919, Oats on new clearing, wheat in background" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 35; agriculture, field, fence, trees in distance]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.2143.51
97. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (New log home, Palmer) [log cabin with sod roof, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1757
T77 Ketchikan, Alaska 9Air view) [aerial view of Ketchikan with aircraft wing and struts in foreround, Gravina Island in lower left; shoreline, structures, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.070a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [hydraulic mining operation, men, pipes, steam, water; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.621
E41 Cutting a Kotzebue Caper "Kotzebue, Feb 1948, Paul Smith, dancer" [same as .620, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.070b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: hydraulic mining operation, men, pipes, steam, water; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.620
"E41 Kotzebue, Cutting a Kotzebue Caper, Feb 1948, Paul Smith, dancer" [man wearing fur mukluks, knit goves, western clothing dances; onlookers in parkes in background sitting next to wall]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley