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B1995.014.16.12
[portrait of dog in harness lying on frozen river next to backpack, skis, and ski poles, mountains in distance]
Keywords: animals, transportation, sports
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.347
Brought up in my kitchen. Her first outing [piglet in yard next to house]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.764.13
40. Colonists live stock, Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [man with cows at homestead, log cabins, walled tents, and automobile visible]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.335
Feeding the corn husker [two boys working machine, third boy sitting in barn doorway]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.650
F1 An Alaskan catch, Willow Creek [same as 648, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2129
King Island, Alaska "Prop. of Van Cleve Photography, Evanston, Il." [men drag umiak on snow and ice]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.744
23. Midnight sun on the Yukon. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2012.036.14
Fourth Avenue, Denali Theatre, Special Agent Peyton stands in front [1964 earthquake, Anchorage]
Collection: B2012.036
B1989.016.1533.5
140. Fields at Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [hay stacks, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1903.1
(Alaska dairy farmhouse) [man standing with cow in front of wood frame house, delivery truck from The Sheely Dairy parked alongside, Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: animal husbandry, agriculture, residences, houses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.749
27. Anchorage sunset. Hewitt's Photo Shop [Cook Inlet]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1903.11
(Dairy herd) [cows coming down path from pasture, stopped at wooden fence, Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: animal husbandry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1903.12
(Dairy herd) [cows coming down path from pasture, stopped at wooden fence, Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1339
PE5 An Eskimo home inside of the Arctic Circle (Kotzebue, Feb 1948) [kayaks, dog sled, fish nets stored on supports; dogs curled on ground; structures, stove pipe, snow, likely sea ice in background, winter]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.651
"F2 Drying fish, Copper River (salmon) [fish racks, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2991
July 1983, aerials, villages [view of structures on shore, possibly pond or lagoon in foreground, boats, tank farm, quonset, culverts, likely new construction in center of image]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.1967.8
8 (Fur Rondy, 1953, dog races) [female musher and team at starting line on Fourth Avenue in front of City Hall, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Races]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.336
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(20065)(Young and Schmidt )(Legal){helicopter accident details including blood and bone documentation}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1995.014.56.14
[base camp in snowstorm, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: camping, mountaineering, winter
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1969.10
(Chistmas Card, Greetings from the Northland) (dog team)
Keywords: greeting card
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1969.2
Mt Mckinley Glacier (Christmas Card, Northland Greetings (mountain and glacier) [Greeting card showing the McKinnley Glacier and surrounding mountains of the Alaska Range placed over a pen and ink drawing with a cabin]
Keywords: glacier: mountains, greetings, card, McKinnley, Denali
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1969.3
(Christmas Card, Alaska, Greetings from the Northland (cabin, trees, and mountain) [Greeting card showing a snowy tree lined road with mountains in the background. This photograph is layed over a pen and ink drawing of a cabin and "Northland Greetings"]
Keywords: card, cabin, snow, streets, drawing, greeting card
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1003
L138 Lower Trail Lake, Seward - Anchorage Hiway (Seward Highway) [pavement, center striping on roadway, automobile at far left, utility poles, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1664
T44 Anchorage, Alaska (1948, 300) [copy neg; aerial view of city looking east from shore of Cook Inlet to beyond Merrill Field and from Ship Creek to south of Chester Valley; structures, streets, roads, railroad tracks, park strip, downtown, South Addition, cleared land in Midtown, mudflats]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.979
stand wrecked by flood [man standing next to collapsed structure, Socony Gasoline
pump in front, utility poles along street, 1927 flood in West Hartford. Excised from photo
album, with partial loss of caption]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.981
Den (before electricity) [house interior, George seated at desk with back to camera,
framed expedition photographs on wall. Cf. .300]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2019.003.010
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Sunset on Cooks Inlet at 9:30 PM [scenic, with three people on beach silhouetted in foreground] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet, Tikahtnu (Eklutna)]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, School, Education, U.S. Government, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Tikahtnu, Cook's Inlet, Cooks lnlet, Cook Inlet, Sunset, Beach
Collection: B2019.003
B1995.014.16.11
[portrait of dog lying on frozen river next to backpack, skis, and ski poles, mountains in distance]
Keywords: transportation, animals, sports
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1658
T42, photo by Frank Morgan; Ketchikan, Alaska (1949 postcards, 200) [copy neg; scenic view of shoreline, Tongass Narrows, wharf, pilings, structures, boats, harbor, Deer Mountain in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2002.019.923
[from verso] pub 35 mm #18 [man and woman fishing in river; photographer with camera on tripod in background; rowboat in right foreground; mountains in background]
Collection: B2002.019
B2019.003.147
“Scenes along the Alaska coast” Resurrection Bay entrance to Seward [scenic of water and coastline]
Collection: B2019.003
B2019.007.048
March 12, 1996 [village scene, 1996; child sitting on steps next to man with clipboard, paper, pen. At AFN 2022, youth sitting on the stairs identified as Jeffrey “Smurf” George]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Manokotak
Collection: B2019.007
B1989.016.1968.6
(Christmas Cards, Alaska Greetings (husky)(copy) [Alaskan themed greeting card with a husky and "Alaska"]
Keywords: dog, husky, greeting
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.263
3_11_93025 Golden Alaska Abandoned mining camp only town for 70miles
Keywords: Golden Alaska
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1969.1
(Christmas Card, Alaska - Season's Greetings moose in water) [drawing of moose]
Keywords: greeting card
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.916
[bird’s eye view in winter, two walled tents at left, small lake or inlet below, river
mouth in distance]
.916 – [similar to .915]
Keywords: mountain, scenic, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.2018.1.178.005
59-3; Interior of fish lab - dedication ceremonies; 7 sec med [Men wearing suits; one standing while others are seated in Ketchikan Fish Products Technology Laboratory; December 9, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.46.001
19-1 July 1939; Plus x - 64-40; Dev in Dk 20-30 min @ 68 degrees F; Evelyn Hooper, July 4th [beach scene of woman seated among driftwood; legs and hand of person, likely Britt in foreground; possible fish pen in water; likely near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.46.001
19-1 July 1939; Plus x - 64-40; Dev in Dk 20-30 min @ 68 degrees F; Evelyn Hooper, July 4th [beach scene of woman seated among driftwood; legs and hand of person, likely Britt in foreground; possible fish pen in water; likely near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.2521
"District Engineer Building Personnel; 1958" [woman with cigarette standing at likely a utility sink; coffee cups atop cabinet; projection screen leaning against cabinet; steel drum (container) at left foreground; shelves with labeled boses or books; door "Keep out unless invited to enter" sign; overhead pipes]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2522
"District Engineer Building Personnel; 1958" [barber shop scene: man in barber chair holding dring and cigarette; barber; hand and knee of third person at lower right holding drink; sink at left; hunting sign on wall]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.45.005
18-6 man on dock [1939; smoking pipe; people, structures, and vehicles in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.45.005
18-6 man on dock [1939; smoking pipe; people, structures, and vehicles in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018