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B1990.014.5.EQ.11.18
Fireman responding to Scotty MacDaniel's house fire.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.2
Guard at David home
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.20
House on fire
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.3
Camera crew at David house blast.
Keywords: fire; news; tv; crew
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B2006.023.6844.jpg
[aircraft accident]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1989.016.2383
[Aviation, Pacific Alaska Airways, planes at Merrill Field, Fairchild 71s]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.50
(catastrophe){firemen on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, fireman
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B90.14.5.EQ.6.4.6
Anchorage sand and gravel back in biz after 27 March 1964, Quake damage. No Print
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_6
B2014.019.83
Salmon [mother and daughter cleaning fish at table along river shore, boy hauling fish onto dock with pole, younger daughter carrying baby across plank boardwalk, wooden barrels in foreground, skiff pulled onto shore in background]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B2014.019
B1989.016.2375
[Aviation, Pacific Alaska Airways, at Lake Hood, Mat (?) Flanigan, Charlie Goldstein, Juneau furrier] L9
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1997.019.02full
The whale hunting season is opened formally by the captain of the boat, taking from a box on the cache his charms and hunting paraphanalia.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1989.016.2369
[Aviation, Pacific Alaska Airways] L4
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.10
Firemen bringing out the body of David
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B1996.009.05full
The captain of a boat opens the ceremonies by taking from his meat cellar pieces of the whale he last killed and while sitting in charmed state under his whole charmed whaling gear he serves tiny pieces to each caller.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B1997.019.10full
Arriving at the edge of the open water the boat is cached.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
b2009.057.07
[Anchorage, water valve, tree stumps, building]. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative.
Collection: B2009.057 Pyatt
B1998.014.1.1464
S42 Hunting season in Alaska (1946 postcard) Three service men with rifles, stand near equipment, facing mountains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Logging.2.36
(Ketchikan Pulp Company Thorne Bay)(4932)(July 1966)( Ketchikan Pulp Co.)(new shovel 38-8 lifts log at spur at end of road)
Keywords: forestry, logging, lumber, timber
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 2
B2012.030.1065
Canneries. Bristol Bay, Alaska. Salmon cannery at Dillingham. Aug. 1955.
Collection: B2012.030
B1997.019.08full
The canoe is put on rollers of seal skins filled with air and taken to the open waters of Bering Straits, the path being made safe from evil influences by an old woman.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1996.009.12full
Before embarking, a piece of cooked whale skin is partaken of by each from a charm spoon and wooden pail after a fast of 24 hours, then with a piece of native graphite the tribal mark is drawn on the forehead of each.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
AEC.G1890
A.E.C. G1890 HGK Hurricane Gulch Bridge Aug. 8 - 1921
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1997.019.00title
Story of a whale hunt in Bering Straits. S.R. Bernardi, photographer. Nome, Alaska
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1996.009.06full
The men dance and feast and sweat and fast for days before their first hunt. The women may only go to the entrance of the dance house to carry food or material for work.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B1984.055.257
Man and George Sullivan in Mayor’s Office holding model of “Milepost Zero” of the Alaska Highway [original at Dawson Creek, British Columbia]
Collection: B1984.055
B1989.016.1560.1
Wiley Post and Will Rogers plane at Fairbanks, Alaska [float plane docked on Chena Slough at Fairbanks, August 1935. Airplane is Lockheed Orion/Explorer on J5300 EDO floats, tail number NR12283]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Sp.7.002
14075 Sp Ski Romig HIll; 20 April 1966; February 1963; 9-9-97 [Winter scene of people skiing; Downtown Anchorage in background; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Sports
B2000.003.bittner.4
Catherine, Harry, and Bill Bittner, Lake Spenard, 1919 [from Legends & Legacies by Bagoy]
Keywords: Anchorage, recreation
Collection: B2000.003
B1989.016.654
"Cree," leader summit entry. Lomen Bros. [written over with] Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [dog in harness with spectators in background. All-Alaska Sweepstakes? copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.656
4. Anchorage from the air. Hewitt's Photo Shop [aerial looking northwest from park strip to Government Hill, with Ship Creek area, port, and downtown, 1930s]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.2594
Nome, September 1961 [man posing in front of structure with KICY 850 KC lettering; radio station]
Collection: B2017.024
B1997.019.09full
...who makes a fire of the shavings, saved from the making of the canoe paddles, using the ashes to sprinkle over the path and also to throw into the sea to pacify the spirits of wind and waves.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1989.016.2364
"A Denali Ram," Joseph S. Dixon 1926
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer