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B1989.016.1978
(Seward highway) [truck travelling south on the Seward highway towards Girdwood]
Keywords: transportation, caro, Turnagin Arm, railroad
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2008.015.1.16.1
Alameda, Seward, Alaska [steamship]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B2008.015
B1989.016.1900.13
(Seward Highway in summer) [view down unpaved road, mudflats of upper Turnagain Arm at right]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1900.14
(Seward Highway in summer) [view down unpaved road, mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1900.15
(Seward Highway in summer) [view down unpaved road, mudflats of upper Turnagain Arm at right]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1963.X.11.40
Miners Cabin, Cascade Mt #418 (Non Alaskan)[postcard of cabin in the Cascade Mts]
Keywords: cabin, camp, mountains, mining
Collection: B1963.x_011 CIHS Reeve
B1989.016.1975
Alaska Cabbage, Hewitts Photo (Cabbage at Circle Hot Springs)[farmer showing a large alaskan cabbage]
Keywords: farming, agriculture, farmer, produce
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1979.1
(Seward Highway, car parked, April 15, 1954, oversized print) [photograph of a car parked, looking south down the seward hwy]
Keywords: highway, transportation, cars, railroad, Turnagin Arm, mountains
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1852.4
(Christmas Card neg) [hoar frost on trees]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1899.3
(Anchorage Fourth Avenue at dusk, Nov. 15, 1952) [bird's eye view looking east to McKinley Apartments and Chugach Mountains]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1900.12
(Seward Highway in summer) [family walking along bank of creek with fir trees and mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1974
"T203 Moose Pass & Kenai Lake, 1954" [roadside scene; dirt road; automobiles; structures; lumber inside what may be a shed]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.019.1.01e.08693.05
Waves on rocky shoreline, Smith Island, P.W.S., Alaska, [Alaska Cities - Prince William Sound], c. 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Cities, Prince William Sound, Smith Island, Waves
Collection: B2016.019
B1979.002.4694
"8/8/1919, Erickson farm buildings & potato field" [sleeve 60, Interior homestead, log structures, metal roof, agriculture, trees in background]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1973.079.39
[soldiers exercising on the deck of a transportship ship en route to St. Michael, Alaska 1906]
Keywords: military, transportation, shipping
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.41
[Ft Davis near Nome at the mouth of the Nome River on Seward Peninsula 1906][negative is dark and in poor condition]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1989.016.321.2
Anchorage from Cook Inlet [line of fishing dories being pulled in foreground]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.46
(catastrophe){firemen on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, fire truck, fireman, accident
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.47
(catastrophe){firemen on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, fireman
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.48
(catastrophe){firemen on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, fire truck, fireman
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.49
(catastrophe)(Anchorage Residence){house in winter scene}
Keywords: catastrophe
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1979.002.4696
[Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 100 (no description); three children, girls, rompers, ribbons, pose with cauliflower, flowers, garden, clothesline, structure, agricultural buildings]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.1968
"T201 Kenai 1954" [view of structures, domiciles, clothesline, automobile]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.4
[Soldiers dressed in uniform with rifles crossing a log on the beach en route to the rifle range, summer of 1907]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.44
[gold mining on the Seward Peninsula][scaffolding for sluce with tailings]
Keywords: resource extraction, Nome, gold, mines, mining
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1989.016.083
Mud flats, taken in summer of 1946. Photo by Sidney Hamilton. [with Mt. Susitna]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1904.1
The Army Express. c. Geo. L. Johnson, Anchorage, Alaska [two men with sleds and dog teams stopped on trail in winter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2021.3
(Oblique of Fourth Avenue,1959)(5x7 copy negative of 2021.2 cropped(8x10 print)[A view of downtown Anchorage looking down 4th Ave towards the Chugach Mountains]
Keywords: city, urban, mountains, street lights, street signs, streets, buildings, apartment building
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.273
B49 Copper Center Roadhouse (interior) [tables, chairs, piano, music books, staircase, spittoon?; note table legs and stairway posts, glass cabinets, postcards]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.274
B49 Copper Center Roadhouse (interior) [tables, chairs, piano, music books, staircase, spittoon?; note table legs and stairway posts, glass cabinets, postcards]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.275
B50 (Tok Junction & NC Store, 2 negs, 2 prints) {NC Co Store, truck, steel barrels, snow, trees, utlity pole]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.378
B92 Old Russian Cburch at Ninilchik [B93 listed on envelope; church with spruce tree, foliage in foreground, possibly fireweed]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2014.012.75
[portrait of woman wearing fur parka standing outdoors]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.012
B1979.002.4695
"8/8/1919 M. Nelson Homestead, RHG seeds [?] 6/5 [possible planting date]" [sleeve 64; man wearing hat staning in grain field, log structures in background, agriculture, hills]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC