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B1986.096.solidwaste02
Maintenance operations, refure, public works, solid waste
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1986.096.290
[Public Works. Man standing next to truck, front loader dumping snow into dump truck at right, snow removal, Anchorage, winter, 1960s]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1986.096.sewer01
Sewer utility. Aug. 6, 1966. End of project 402-66-02. Possible slide rule error. Suggest we specify "gap water" in the future. L.B. [Polaroid]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1990.014.5.Anc.13.3
KFQD Radio southside 4th Ave 2 doors west of corner of D Str. Bldg was originally the Harmony Theater in the 1920s. Theater tickets kids 15 cents.4th July parade, 4th Ave, KFQD Bldg, 7-4-54. Photographer's number 25873 [Miss Ft. Richardson float]
Keywords: Anchorage
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc
B1990.014.2018.1.99.003
37-2 Interiors at 1055 Stedman St [kitchen with refrigerator at left; table and chairs; cabinets and counter at right; closed blinds on window; Ketchikan; January 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.99.003
37-2 Interiors at 1055 Stedman St [kitchen with refrigerator at left; table and chairs; cabinets and counter at right; closed blinds on window; Ketchikan; January 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Anc.13.19
58. Crowd leaving baseball park, Anchorage. N.S.B. [tent city Anchorage, 1916. Nellie Brown, photographer]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc
B2017.024.2574
Nome, August 1961 [street scene of men operating fire hose in middle of street; boardwalk and Nomerama Theatre in background; poster for "The Gazebo"]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2236.1
(Francis Bowden, Mayor of Anchorage, 1946-1947) [studio portrait]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1649.1
(Alaska Railroad Yards, Anchorage) [view of yard looking southeast, with Quonset huts in foreground, equipment and buildings including depot in middle ground, Chugach Mountains in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.2575
Nome, August 1961 [street scene with two men operating a fire hose in middle of street; hardware store at left]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.085.3
Baranof (Ship) at Seward. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.381
Even with skids, the horses can not move the chicken house very well [two-horse team at right harnessed to small building, two men positioning rollers. Cf. .406]
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.1452
[Spectators on Anchorage street, with American flags. Woodein businesses line street.] 8 x 10 nitrate negative
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.2065.1
(IBM offices, "Talk It Up, IBM6400") [two men in office, one talking with uniformed man in doorway, early computing. circa 1962]
Keywords: computers
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2311.2
(City of Juneau, Broadway Cab with mountain and lake in scene, September 23, 1941)
Keywords: automobiles
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2197.11
Children's Day, Nome, Alaska, June 27, 1914. Lomen Bros. Nome #421 [bird's eye view of children gathered in yard next to U.S. Life Saving Station. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.2745
Nome, July 1983 Street scenes [exterior view of police officer and man wearing plaid jacket outside the Board of Trade Saloon; Nome's Oldest Saloon since 1900; Headquarters for the Sin City of Nome; Olympia Beer Finish banner with handwritten correction]
Collection: B2017.024
B1994.009.911.912
[laboratory at Kalakaket site (Galena) [descriptions on verso have been cut partway off; White Alice]
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B1989.016.2143.50
96. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Valley at Palmer) [dirt road at left in foreground running past cultivated field, homestead buildings in middle ground, mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.1
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [small room with desk, three chairs, maps of Cook Inlet on wall, key rack, patterned wallpaper]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.003.gelles.12a
July 1921 [man on parade float in Anchorage, possibly Fourth of July, Gus Gelles? From Legends & Legacies by Bagoy]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2000.003
B1990.014.2018.1.10.002
3-2 Dad [man seated; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.10.002
3-2 Dad [man seated; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2023.003.24
3937, 33, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad Engine 551 parked with building at left]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaska Railraod, Engine 551, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
B2016.004.1137
.1134 - 1138 – Winds raked Anchorage. Official Entry, Best Photo Series, Alaska Press Club Competition 1980 [Trifold mount. Five images from photo feature on November 1979 windstorm. Entry blank and original clipping adhered to back of mount.] Municipal workmen were out on the job Friday, replacing telephone lines ripped down by the gale-force winds.
Collection: B2016.004
B2019.007.440
Nondalton, March 23, 1993 [girls basketball; gymnasium; bleachers; spetators; girl wearing Kokhanok Lakers sweatpats and t-shirt shoots the ball]
Collection: B2019.007
B2023.003.25
Alaska Railroad, FP7 #1514 Train #5, Healy, AK. 07/08/1956. 3938, 36, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad Healy Depot with passenger train and people on the platform]
Keywords: Alaska, Healy, Alaska Railraod, Passenger train, Engine 1514, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides