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B1989.016.530
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [moose swimming. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1984.077.8.026
[Bears walking away, two trash barrels, viewed through window. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2006.023.2051.jpg
Warner Vent Nome 1976
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 1001-2000
B2006.023.7518.jpg
Training wheel.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 7000-7999
B1998.014.1.2217
"Hedbergs brown bear" [man holding gun posing with bear positioned atop anters, possible skull; likely a knife in sheath attached to man's belt]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.005.167
[Distant view of two people rowing in small watercraft on river; bystanders on shore at right]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, People, Rowing, Boat, Watercraft, Oars, Paddles, River, Bystanders, Shore, Landscape, Mountains, Hills
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.004.Aug70P5Wainwright
[Wainwright. Print date Aug 70]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1979.002.4958
"8/22/1919; Harvesting wheat with tractor going south" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 99; two farmers, agriculture, reaper, field, possibly potatoes in foregound; rooftop of structure in left midground, trees]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.166
(catastrophe)(May 10, 1959)(2106 Alder Excavation of Street)(Anchorage Historical)
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1995.014.124.7
Going out to McKinley [scenic, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.16.14
[man wearing military uniform outdoors squatting behind chained dog, food bucket on ground, river in distance]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.16.15
[Alaska Native man wearing military cap and hip boots standing next to dog kennel holding chain of dog standing on top of kennel, animal pens in background]
Keywords: animals, clothing, footwear, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.1308
(Cronin #12, ARC Loco #6 (ex Panama) being horse-drawn over hills beyond Healy for operation south of Nenana River canyon, 1920-21. E.J. Cronin)
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.004.18295
Point Hope: old Eskimo village of Tigara. People wait for distribution of mail. Photographer's number 18295
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1998.014.1.475
Lead Dog "D6 The Leader; Kobuk, Alaska Lead Dog; Exposed twice normal for pastel blue #9-f5.6 8 sec. 5 neg, 55" [same as .472]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2007.1
Matanuska River Winter, Hewitt's Drug Photo (Matanuska River,Winter 1955) [Matanuska River with Matanuska Peak in the background]
Keywords: river, winter, ice, mountains
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.364
B82 (Anchorage, Denali School, grades up to 6th; at 9th & A street; 1 neg; 1 print) [children playing in snow in schoolyard; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1533.6
131. Valley hay crop, Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [hay stacks with mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1592
#17. Children's Dog Derby, 1937. Hewitt's Photo Shop [young people with dogs on winter street, Anchorage street scene looking east with automobiles and businesses including Alaska Cafe, City Hotel, Blue Ribbon Cafe, Chugach Mountains in distance, Fourth Avenue?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1593.1
[bird's eye view of residential area in northwest Anchorage with Ship Creek, Anchorage docks, ship in Cook Inlet in distance; Sackett's Harbor at dock?]
Keywords: houses, residences
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
B1998.014.1.2215
At Seward, Alaska; Alaska Shop "Bear's dump; no garbage here" [two bear cubs on chains, one atop sign "Dump no garbage here" log structure held together with rope, possibly at waterfront]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2381
"Hand out of table, washer nuts" [similar to .2374; walnuts and hex nuts surrounding artificial hand]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.People.18.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 18
B1998.014.1.2219
"3 moose on highway" [three moose run down road in front of automobile; image taken through windshield]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.004.82.25
Whitney-Fidalgo Cannery, Ship Creek, Anchorage, 1974 [workers relaxing on dock]
Collection: B2016.004
B2022.005.150
[Two Indigenous Alaskan young women in dresses outside; girl on right has short hair; cars parked in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young women, Girls, Teens, Teenagers, Dresses, Clothing, Hairstyle, Outside, Cars, Transportation, Parked
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.476
"D6 The Leader; Kobuk, Alaska Lead Dog; Exposed twice normal for pastel blue #9-f5.6 8 sec. 5 neg, 55" [same as .472; copy neg has gray tint]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2019.003.056
“Source of supply for the Anchorage Light and Power at Eklutna” Dam [view down to dam from top of canyon] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Anchorage Light and Power, Light and Power, Power, Supply, Source, Dam, View, Canyon
Collection: B2019.003
B1990.014.5.EQ.08.1.8
Cracked trees in Turnagain
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_8
B2014.023.033
(Nymph Nellie and the Gang)(woman wearing peasant costume holding tambourine)
Collection: B2014.023
B2015.008.283
Looking down river, April 8, 1917 [bird’s eye view of house from orchard]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.015.10
[two young men posed on boardwalk or bridge, railroad tracks at right, one boy wearing eyeglasses and carrying camera case]
Collection: B2015.015
B2017.020.072
[Seward street scene, looking down 4th Avenue to Resurrection Bay, Mount Marathon racers in distance, spectators lining sidewalks in front of businesses including The Nobby, Watsjold Market, 1955-1959]
Collection: B2017.020
B1990.014.2018.1.288.002
88-4; Feb 1943; Super XX; snow scene [Creek Street structures over water, trees, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1994.009.1037
104 Equipment and laboratory [likely in Anchorage; 1957; White Alice; caption from verso has been cut away]
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B2001.038.6
The boat which first harpooned the whale leads the procession to the ice when it is towed in for cutting.
Collection: B2001.038