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B1962.x.015 CIHS US Army Engineer District.04
Collection: B1962.x_022 CIHS Morgan / B1962_x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District CIHS U_S_ Army Engineer District
B1998.014.1.338
(B69 Watson Lake Hotel, mile 635 & sign post) [sign posts along gravel road, Yukon Territory, Canada]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1627
Cordova, Alaska. Hewitt's [aerial. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1961
(Volcanic blackout, Anchorage, July 9, 1953) [view over Cook Inlet, with buildings in foreground, Mount Spurr eruption]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.1
4th Ave. at "E", Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's [Fourth Avenue street scene with automobiles parked outside Bevers & Pfeil Building with Hewitt's Drugs, Zenith Radio, Cheechako Tavern. copy neg]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.10
(Hewitt's Drug Store, interior, 1953) [with counters and displays]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.2
[Fourth Avenue street scene with automobiles parked outside Bevers & Pfeil Building with Hewitt's Drugs, Zenith Radio, Cheechako Tavern, Logemann Bldg. at right]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.3
(Hewitt's Drug Store, interior, 1953) [customers shopping inside store, with counters and displays]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.4
(Hewitt's Drug Store, interior, 1953) [customers shopping inside store, with counters and displays]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.591.3
21. Alaska snow blossoms. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [hoar frost. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.339
B69 Mile 635, Alaska Hiway (Watson Lake Hotel) [log structure, Yukon Territory, Canada]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1970.028.039
Eskmino Belle Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska When they were young they traded wives. Lomen Bros. Nome
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1980.104.10
Headquarters, Seventeenth Naval District, Kodiak, Alaska--Katmai's west wall (center foreground) and Katmai Lake, which fills the crater, are shown in this Navy picture taken in September of 1952.
Collection: B1980.104
B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus.29.26
Carr's Food Center 13th and Gambell 1st anniversary Hawaiian Sale 9/18/53
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus
B2017.029.2987
[men drumming in front of paintings, Anchorage Museum; print date Feb 81]
Collection: B2017.029
B1983.091.S4193.002
Benny Benson, designer of Alaska flag (2/22/64). Interior, man at table, autographing. [women wearing parka, children, adults]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2144.11
#31. Upper end of Miles Canyon. Copyright 1898. E.A. Hegg (Old Klondike) [two people in rowboat in foreground. copy neg printed backwards]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.256
[bird’s eye view of railroad track along Kenai Lake through field of fireweed, automobile on Seward Highway at right]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3188
[crosses, spirit houses, and grave markers in cemetery, including marker for Chief Philip, died 1920, and Maggie Andrew]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.13.16
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [men setting up fish traps on ice, dog team and snowshoes at left]
Keywords: transportation, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B2012.006.1003
[log church on bluff with pine trees; no date]
Keywords: churches, religion
Collection: B2012.006
b2012.006.678
[man standing on bank of river in spring, village on opposite bank; no date]
Collection: B2012.006
B1983.091.S1435.1
Curly's Cafe (for Jacobin), 1953 [night scene of Curly's Chinese-American food, with neon lights and automobiles parked in lot]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.1330
PA3 Unalaska has the largest settlement in the Aleutian Chain and is one of the nearest links to the Alaskan mainland. Here, on June 3, 1942, Americans watched their homeland under Japanese attack. (1 print, 1 neg) [view of Unalaska with cemetery, gravesites with orthodox crosses in foreground, structures, quonsets, homes, church, pier, bay in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.341
Bound for Campbell Creek, Jean McG. And kids ahead [view down muddy trail through taiga, people standing on trail in distance]
Keywords: Anchorage
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3551
[bird’s eye view of village on Yukon River, taken from cemetery on high bluff, crosses in foreground, yellow church in distance, Nulato?]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.102.11
[man carrying backpack skiing on winter trail, hills in distance]
Keywords: sports, recreation, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.1
[water plant in gravel pit at mining operation, drag line bucket at left]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.10
[man working sluice box on mining plant, Willow Creek near Marshall]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.15.2
[small skiff with outboard motor pulled onto beach, trees and low hills in distance]
Keywords: transportation, boats
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.15.3
[helicopter flying low on approach to beach, low bluff across water in distance, Marshall?]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.16.7
[musher with dogs in harness on boardwalk, man wearing rubber boots and driving cap, putting booties on dogs' paws, Russian Mission?]
Keywords: transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.18.7
[musher and dog team on frozen river in storm]
Keywords: transportation, weather
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.20.15
[portrait of dog, river in background, possibly Yukon River]
Keywords: animals, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.20.16
[portrait of dog wearing pack, river in background, possibly Yukon River]
Keywords: transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.29.16
F-E Co. 1942 [crane and hose at Fairbanks Exploration Co. hydraulic mining operation, tailings piles in background]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.53.1
Army fishing, food for dogs [soldiers working slime line, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.54.17
Auction sale after a town member's death, Fort Yukon, 1934 [Athabascan men, women, and children standing outdoors, girl in center eating apple, woman at right wearing Athabascan-style beaded baby belt, Yukon River in background]
Keywords: clothing, food
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.54.18
Olson, coming down Yukon, 1934 [portrait of man seated in rowboat with dog, man wearing lace-up boots, vest, and eyeglasses, holding bones or dried fish, snowshoes in boat, trees in background]
Keywords: clothing, boats, transportation, animals, food, fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.58.12
[Native man leading dog team pulling sled on spring trail, unidentified location]
Keywords: transportation, roads, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.58.13
[Pacific Alaska Airways Fairchild 71 tail number NC155H with skis on frozen river, two men next to plane and one standing on top]
Keywords: aviation, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.58.14
Jim Douglas, Willow Creek Express [four dogs harnessed to two-wheeled trap carrying supplies, white and Native men at left, log cabin in background]
Keywords: transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014