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B2014.027.37
#5-78. Musher after thawing out, Iditarod 1978, Nome, Alaska [portrait of Alaska Native man wearing fur-lined hat with earflaps and red shirt]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.027
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.132
(catastrophe)(September 1962)(1st Penney Bldg)(JC Penney Bldg construction)(historical)
Keywords: urban, downtown
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2006.003.5
Construction on W[hite] P[ass] & Y[ukon] R.R. at Porcupine Hill. [photo by H. G. Barley, image #112, with two horse teams and men with hand tools in railroad cut]
Collection: B2006.003
B1983.091.S2060.13
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [Galion road grader plowing snow from city street, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2079.14
[Merrill Field in foreground, Anchorage buildings in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2079.15
[Merrill Field in foreground, Anchorage buildings in distance]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2079.3
[aerial of oil tanks at storage facility and dock area]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1630.1
(Lake Eklutna) [boat on Eklutna Lake, with mountains in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1464
S42 Hunting season in Alaska (1946 postcard) Three service men with rifles, stand near equipment, facing mountains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1857.7
(ANMC Construction, Third and Gambell Street, 1951) [building frame, Alaska Native Service Hospital, Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.023.168
[Soldier (Wally?) standing at attention, holding rifle in front of small building, possibly guard shack]
Collection: B2017.023
B1990.014.2018.1.187.004
61-3; Mose [dog resting head and front pawson woman's lap; likely January 1941; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.188.001
61-5; Marg [toddler stands at table containing cake and one burning candle; woman standing in background seen from hips down; likely January 1941, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1984.077.3.035
[scenic view, mountains, trees, blurry foreground, possibly take from train, neg. is deteriorating]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.2079.26
[aerial of oil tanks at storage facility]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1857.5
(ANMC Construction, Third and Gambell Street, 1951) [building exterior with scaffolding, Alaska Native Service Hospital, Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1857.6
(ANMC Construction, Third and Gambell Street, 1951) [worker standing on building frame, Alaska Native Service Hospital, Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.45.9
[Jeep parked outside Quonset hut with sign for The Blue Fox, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.Album1.98
52. Bear Creek flats [flats at base of mountain, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1984.077.21.018
[scenic view, trees, ouitcroppings, mouintains in distance? Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.1772.7
(Anchorage at night) [bird's eye view of long street with residential and business buildings]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.45.11
[winter view across frozen flat to storage tanks in distance, man carrying lumber near building at right, Adak?]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
b2012.006.423
[man, woman, and young girl, all in fur parkas, standing near mobile stairway for Reeve Aleutian Airways airplane at airport; print date Feb 58. Cf. .926]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2012.006
B1979.002.Album1.249
Mr. Wm. C. Edes, chairman Alaskan Eng. Com., [transferring?] from S. S. Mariposa to U. S. Explorer. P. S. Hunt J1891 [three men climbing rope ladder from small boat to larger boat, April 1914?]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.25
R32-3. Headquarters Office [two- and one-story buildings, man sitting on stump in foreground, tent at far left, Ship Creek? railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.1818
Keystone Canyon, Valdez, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [unpaved Richardson Highway through mountains. copy neg]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.015.12
L to R: Bess Dedman, mom Leada Simons, Barbara Dedman [three women looking out from White Pass & Yukon Route locomotive #62, engineer standing on rear]
Collection: B2015.015
B2015.025.1090
[aerial of icebreaker Knik Bay at dock, Port of Anchorage, Miller-Dalton Co. Standard Oil Products building at right, storage tanks in background]
Keywords: Icebreaker, Boat, Equipment, Knik Bay, Dock, Docked, Anchorage, Port, Miller-Dalton Co., Miller-Dalton Company, Standard Oil Products, Oil, Business, Building, Storage, Tanks, Aerial, View
Collection: B2015.025
B2016.019.1.10b.03295.25
Drilling Rigs in Anchorage [Oil Rigs and Pipelines], 1982
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Oil Rigs and Pipelines, Drilling Rig, Anchorage
Collection: B2016.019
B1984.077.19.032
[mining site, man, hydraulic mining, pipe, cutbank, silt formations]
Collection: B1984.077
B2017.019.539
[statue of Virgin Mary in small shrine on tundra; print date Jun 58]
Collection: B2017.019
B1989.016.1819
Palmer Highway, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [unpaved Glenn Highway looking down hill to river valley, mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.43.11
Mail plane, Russian Mission [airplane on floats near river bank, pilot wading out to it, mountains across river in distance]
Keywords: aviation, postal services
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.43.12
[partially obscured view of man in ditch in wooded area with shovels, possibly digging drainage or water control ditch]
Collection: B1995.014