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B2014.023.249
(envelope marked new washington hotel)(building and debris piles under bridge)
Keywords: river, bridge, construction
Collection: B2014.023
B2016.004.17.13
Barrow people, 5-80 [two children wearing parkas posed outside]
Collection: B2016.004
B1964.001.693
(Oliver Jones clearing tracks at Premier)[Three locomotive engines clearing snow from the tracks and several men walking within the plowed paths]
Keywords: train, railroad, snow, winter, snowplow, transportation, powerlines
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B1989.016.1583.5
(First Tent City, Anchorage, 5-part panorama by Sydney Laurence, part #5) [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1583.6
(First Tent City, Anchorage, 5-part panorama by Sydney Laurence, extra pic) [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1583.7
[Anchorage street scene, Fourth Avenue at E Street looking east, parked automobiles with businesses including Rexall Pharmacy, Anchorage Light & Power Co., Anchorage Grill and Restaurant, Paris Dry Cleaners, circa 1936. Prior to construction of Anchorage Hotel. Scaffolding around building that would become Hewitt's Drug Store]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1584
(Yukon Sternwheeler Gen. J.W. Jacobs of Nenana)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.55.7
Dip netting [woman and child on riverbank, woman lifting net out of water. original image blurry]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1983.146.103
Post Card Alaska Fur Bearing Trout (fish) {altered photo of a trout with fur}
Keywords: trout, fish, post card
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B2015.008.1084
[men seated in front of large brick fireplace in lodge or hotel, moose antlers mounted
on fireplace]
Keywords: fire place, moose antlers, lodge interior
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1087
Segovia, one of the streets near the cathedral [man wearing suit and bowler hat
walking with man wearing long black cape past buildings, boy gesturing at camera at right]
Keywords: cathedral, boy, street, shops, cobble street
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.463
20. What the flood did to a 100 year old brick house [house in ruins]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1012.1
GZ-183 (Snowbound, Golden Zone) [cabin covered in snow]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.023.056
[Three men at side of road, one astride a bicycle, mountain and water in distance.]
Collection: B2017.023
B1989.016.1012.2
GZ-189 (Scenes in the Golden Zone) [mountains and trees in winter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.588.1
5. Gov. R.R. & Bartlett Glacier, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [Alaska Railroad tracks and trestle bridge]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.588.2
4. Bartlett Glacier. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [negative deteriorated]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.014.331
(331)Group of Boys, Tanana Indian Village Robert, Moses, Jimmy, Lee, Zakariah, Jules, Tanana Oct 15 1914)
Keywords: children
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2014.023.250
(envelope marked "new washington hotel" large bridge across river)
Keywords: bridge, construction
Collection: B2014.023
B2022.005.256
[one Indigenous woman and one Indigenous man dancing on a platform in front of a crowd with at least two drummers in the background. Two children and a white man in hat and coat to the left. Similar to .254, .255, .257]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, dancers, drums
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1603.1
(First Colonists in Palmer) [walled tents being erected in field next to dirt road, Alaska Railroad tracks at right, snow on mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.288.29
Tazlina Glacier Lodge. PA [two log cabins. Copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2005.013.119
Father Paul O’Connor, C.G. & Eskimo children, Mr. Weiss & Al in background, schoolhouse, Hooper Bay [Clarence standing foreground left, with priest and four Alaska Native girls, three men on schoolhouse porch in background, large pile of barrels at right]
Collection: B2005.013
B2013.012.004
[Man from .3, wearing raincoat, brimmed hat, and carrying backpack; circa 1937-1941]
Collection: B2013.012
B2015.008.1122
In old Castile, Agoncillo and its four towered castle (from the moving train)
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.019.1459
Me, first day I went skiing –you knowI couldn’t move in that position. A kid behind me obligingly said wait & he would help me up. But took my picture first. I’m progressing a little more now tho. [Elanor wearing skis, fallen in snow. Duplicate in album, .805]
Collection: B2017.019
B1991.011.572
Newtok [three women pose in front of metal and wood structure; two at left are identified on slide as Tommy (last name) and Lincoln (last name); possible canvas wall tent in distance; identified in 2019 as Marie Fairbanks, Mary George, and Julia Charles]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2015.008.628b
154_4 D.K. at 12,000 ft. 845am 9th day Miss Dora Keen climbing Mt Blackburn Alaska Subject of her lecture Sat Evening April 18 at Brooklyn Institute [proof print has stamp of Dora Keen][Dora wearing brimmed hat and climbing belt using pick to climb steep slope]
Keywords: mountain climbing, mountaineer, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B1991.011.561
Newtok; Mary Ann Moses and family; Moses family [woman and children, infant pose in front of sod igloo; structure; parkas, fur; Hills Brothers coffee can at right; 1957; similar to .560]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2014.012.70
[man wearing vest, cravat, and brimmed hat sitting on rocky ground]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.012
B1989.016.1026
GZ-223 [Golden Zone mill, not stamp mill, jaw crusher; interior]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1075
P-285. Hewitt's (Colonist's Crop, Palmer) [cultivated fields, Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection