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B1962.001A.490
Whipsawing, a hard craft [Saws and sawing]
Keywords: Whipsaws, Construction, Frames, Structures, Logs
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1962.001.939
P.S. Hunt G2877. Whipsawing - A Hard Craft [Saws and sawing]
Keywords: Whipsawings, Saws, Tools, Equipment, Sawing
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B2015.008.374
Ice blocks, sawed and lifted, waiting to be hauled to ice house [blocks of ice on river, ice saws and shovel in foreground]
Collection: B2015.008
b1969.015.1.31
[Man with saw and dog.] 2.5 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1969.015 Fred Winter
b1969.015.1.36
[Man with saw and dog.] 2.5 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1969.015 Fred Winter
B1970.019.421
Ship Creek April 20/24 Saw 2 ducks this day
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1989.016.249.1
Silas Negovanna, ivory carver, Wainwright [man with saw in workshop]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.337
February 1919. Sawing ice on the river [two men with ice saws on frozen river, pile of supplies at right. cf. .370-374, .1005]
Collection: B2015.008
b1969.015.1.53
[Fred Winters sawing log.] 2.5 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1969.015 Fred Winter
b1969.015.1.55
[Tent in winter with rifles and saw.] 2.5 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1969.015 Fred Winter
B2015.008.1094
Granada, the Court of Myrtles. The first part of the Alhambra we saw together [courtyard with pool]
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.29
(timber)(September 1957)(Alaska)(Sorting saw native birch for kiln drying near Wasilla in the Matanuska Valley)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.30
(timber)(September 1957)(Alaska)(Sorting saw native birch for kiln drying near Wasilla in the Matanuska Valley)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.31
(timber)(September 1957)(Alaska)(Sorting saw native birch for kiln drying near Wasilla in the Matanuska Valley)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.32
(timber)(September 1957)(Alaska)(Sorting saw native birch for kiln drying near Wasilla in the Matanuska Valley)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B2017.023.149
Wrangell, Alaska, Public School, Schallerers [school building, children playing, see-saw, swingset]
Collection: B2017.023
b1969.015.1.42
[Man with pipe, saw horse, wood pile in front of cabin.] 2.5 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1969.015 Fred Winter
B2015.008.1006
Harvesting ice with circular saw [distant view of men and horses on river ice. Excised
from photo album]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2024.001.659
“Docks—Tustamena Ferry 1964 Anchorage Sep 64” [the first voyage of the MV Tustumena ferry boat near the docks. Tikahtnu (Cook Inlet), Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, September 1964]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Tikahtnu, Cook Inlet, Ferry, MV Tustumena, Alaska Marine Highway, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B1995.014.18.9
[man standing outside log cabin, sawhorse, saw, and logs in front of building, snowshoes propped against wall]
Keywords: houses, residences, transportation, footwear
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.1277
3. Saw like mandible of mosquito. Highly magnified. One of 2 mouth parts peculiar to the female which enables her to bite
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.71
Saw mill, A.N. Ry. Eugene Underwood [Alaska Northern Railway sawmill, mountains in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.1567.6
P-154. Hewitt's (Early Scenes, Palmer) [men setting up mechanized saw to cut lumber outdoors, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1976
T205 "Alaska Nellie's" cabin at Lawing, Alaska "Kenai Lake" [Cabin at shore of lake; logs; circular saw blade on wall]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Home.2.032
14240; Home; A frame; Trappers; April, 1963 [framing for structure, cross-cut saw in snow; overturned box at right; trees; snow]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Home
B2015.014.86
[two white women sitting with Alaska Native women and girls on wood pile, saw in front of pile, buildings and utility poles in background]
Collection: B2015.014
B2015.014.86crop
[two white women sitting with Alaska Native women and girls on wood pile, saw in front of pile, buildings and utility poles in background]
Collection: B2015.014
B1989.016.1567.5
P-153. Hewitt's (Early Scenes, Palmer) [two men operating mechanized saw to cut lumber outdoors, truck in background, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.452
Why cellars were mud filled. Water was where woman is standing when I first saw it. Bridge end [group of people gathered on riverbank near damaged building and bridge ruins]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1567.4
P-151. Hewitt's (Early Scenes, Palmer) [two men, one wearing mosquito netting, operating mechanizes saw to cut lumber outdoors, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1971.014.018
Copper River Indians Cordova, Alaska; hand colored [from verso] woodsmen[four men standing with axes, two two-man crosscut saws; 1923 scrapbook or album; copy print; not in color]
Collection: B1971.014 CIHS Grube Collection
B1998.014.1.1247
(O61 Ketchikan, Sun & Raven totem. From image: "Figures reading down: Raven before flood; children of the sun; face of the sun; raven after flood; fish the raven saw; frog"
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1246
(O61 Sun & Raven totem at Ketchikan. [From image: "Figures reading down: Raven before flood; children of the sun; face of the sun; raven after flood; fish the raven saw; frog"; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.311.001
91-3 Nome [April 1943; Pan X; man sitting on planks in front of open door uses a hand planer; wood shavings; dog on chain; snow in background; hand saw and bucket at left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1754
(T76 Ellis air Lines, Ketchikan air taxi) [dock scene with automobiles, Northern Commercial Co. "Caterpillar sales, service, marine engines, electric sets, Packard gasoline marine engines," "Titan timber saws," structures]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1242
(O60 Ketchikan, Chief Johnson Totem) [actually, the lower portion of Sun & Raven totem. From image: "Figures reading down: Raven before flood; children of the sun; face of the sun; raven after flood; fish the raven saw; frog"]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2009
Kenai Peninsula, April 1969 [log cabin and cache; caribou antlers; supplies hanging under gable end; snowshoes; saw; fuel cans; spruce tree leaning aganist roof; weather reporting equipment (?) atop antenna tower; ladder; mountains in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1962.001A.397
Valdez-Yukon Railway Co.’s waterfront from the pilot house of Str. Santa Clara, showing their saw mill, office bld., commissary, and barns. P.S. Hunt G934 [Valdez-Yukon Railroad Co.; Docks, piers & wharves; Santa Clara (Steamboat); Hubbard, Oliver P.; Hubbard, Alaska]
Keywords: Railways, Railroads, Sawmills, Commissaries, Barns, Docks, Wharves, Piers, Boats and boating, Shorelines
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B2015.008.1093
Granada, in the Alhambra. The garden on the slope leading up to the Torre de la Vela.
We climbed there only a little before sunset, and then through a lot of forbidding doors, came
out to this charming terrace, and the view to the west beyond [garden terrace]
.1094 – Granada, the Court of Myrtles. The first part of the Alhambra we saw together
[courtyard with pool]
Keywords: Granada, garden
Collection: B2015.008
B2019.008.144
Fixing saw [two white men and two African American men working on equipment outdoors, pile of fuel wood in background, laundry hanging on clothesline at right] .145 – Harold & R.C. truck & Mack [man sitting on front bumper of Chevrolet pickup truck on dirt road, posed with dog]
Collection: B2019.008
B2015.008.1199
Benares. “Ghats” (= gawts). A ghat is a flight of steps into the river used for bathing or washing, or worshipping. This is the R. Ganges, so sacred that it is an object of pilgrimage from all India. Nearly every rajah has a palace on it. Here a Hindu wishes to die & have his corpse burned. We saw all these things going on. The peaked buildings are temples. Palaces at top [view across river to opposite bank]
Collection: B2015.008