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B1979.002.4938
"8/8/1919 J. McIntyre. Romanow wheat 4-1/2 A" [sleeve 75; man stanind in grain field; agriculture, Fairbanks vicinity]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.886
L78 along Turnagain Arm Alaska Railroad (1947 postcard) [copy neg; same as .885]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.905
(L88 Anchorage Palmer Highway "green pastel exposure is about normal" #6 f 5.6 5 sec. 50 (1950?)) [same location as .903, person walking down road]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.206.001
65-5 Cows at Duvall [cow and calf near fence, Washington, March 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.890
L81 Matanuska Valley [copy neg; agriculture, barn, domicile, house, silo, field]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.896
L84 Matanuska Valley [O'Harra Bus Lines bus, sign for "Trent's Cocktail Bar, liquor store, dine, dance, boats cabins, picnic (illegible), ice cream" child fishing from bridge, men, automobiles, structures in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.4937
"8/8/1919 J. McIntyre. Barley 8 acres field" [sleeve 74; man standing in grain field, trees in distance; agriculutre, Fairbanks vicinity]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.1400
"SNAFU" (S12 1946 postcard) [man wearing coveralls with flat fake hand emerging from mangle. Possibly an airmail envelope in back pocket: sign: "careless talk may cost American lives," hose on lower left, sink, tub at right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.4921
"8/8/1919 H.H. Berry's wheat field" [sleeve 56; Fairbanks homestead, Tanana Valley, Siberian wheat; two men stand in wheat field, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4928
"8/8/1919 M. Nelson homestead; potatoes & barly seeds 6/5] [sleeve 66; two men walking through potato field; grain fields in distance, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4929
"8/8/1919 F. Issacson; Gen view at head Issabelle Cr. [most likely Isabella Cr]" [man stanind in field, fence rail, garden in background, Fairbanks vicinity, agriculture"
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4930
"F. Issacson wheat & oats" [sleeve 67-1/2; view of hillside fields, birch trees in foreground and bacground; Fairbanks vicinity, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.1041.1
GZ-214 (Winter Scenes in Golden Zone) [mine camp in winter]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1041.3
GZ-202 (Winter Scenes in Golden Zone) [mine camp in winter]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1041.4
GZ-206 (Winter Scenes in Golden Zone) [man next to tree in snow, setting trap?]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1042
P-66. Matanuska Valley hay crop, Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (1936) [hay stacks in foreground, termination dust on mountains in distance]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1043.1
P-7. Palmer, the Matanuska Valley Project, July 1936. Knik Glacier. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.105
Miss Dawson and Miss Yukon with Miss Alaska, 1950. Hewitt's 18.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1057.1
#215. Palmer Gym. Hewitt's Photo Shop [man on horse passing building under construction, Palmer School gymnasium]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1062.3
P-293B. Hewitt's (Picking Berries, early Palmer) [group of children with buckets picking berries in Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1062.4
P-295. Hewitt's (Picking Berries, early Palmer) [group of children with buckets picking berries in Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1067.1
#204. Palmer depot. Hewitt's Photo Shop [Alaska Railroad station]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1067.3
#208. New post office, Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1072
Corporation Bldgs., Palmer. P-266, Hewitt's Photo Shop [Palmer School and other buildings with mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1077.2
P-275. Hewitt's (Palmer Homes) [two automobiles parked in front of wood frame building with mountains behind]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1078.1
P-243. Hewitt's (Palmer Horses) [man with two horses]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.108
Native food cache, summer 1946. (vertical) Photo by Eve Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1086.8
M-7. A prize bull of the original "Carnation Brand" Holstein sire. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska (Matanuska Valley Fair, Prize Stock, 1937) [man with boy holding calf by halter next to barn painted with "Matanuska Valley Fair"]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1089
M-37. Colonists' Post Office. [automobile parked next to building, Palmer water tower in background, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1090.3
P-127. Hewitt's [Knik River Bridge under construction, automobile in foreground]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1091
(Valley Home and Garden, early Palmer) [homestead with wood frame house, log and wood frame barn, and small outbuildings, garden in foreground, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1109.1
P-393. 8/31/36. Hewitt's Photo (Machinery in early Palmer) [The Iron Fireman automatic coal burner]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1109.2
P-393B. 8/31/36. Hewitt's Photo (Machinery in early Palmer) [The Iron Fireman automatic coal burner]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1109.3
P-395. 8/31/36. Hewitt's Photo (Machinery in early Palmer) [pipes and valves in building]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.111
Ski racing at Grandview, AK, 1945, 11 ft. of snow. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1110.1
P-37. Hewitt's (Hot boxes, Palmer) [vegetables growing in small greenhouse spaces]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1112.2
P-96. Hewitt's (Palmer Buildings from Air) [smokestack in foreground, construction material on ground, buildings and fields beyond]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1112.5
P-388. 8/31/36. Hewitt's Photo Shop [cabins, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1115
P-77. Hewitt's (Leveling the Land for Farming, Palmer) [man and horse team in clearing, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1116.2
P-398. 8/31/36. Hewitt's Photo [stool and desk in the Palmer School]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1117
P-76. Hewitt's (Matanuska Valley Farm) [man sowing field, mountains in background]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1118
P-79. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop [Palmer Post Office]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1148
(Alaska Range joins Mt. Susitna, Aug. 1946) [sunset over Cook Inlet]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1154.1
(Ship Creek, winter, Anchorage) [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1156.2
P-372B. A Matanuska Setter. Hewitt's Photo Shop [man with team of horses in harness in field, one sitting, Matanuska Colony, Palmer]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1157
P-383. Knik Bridge. Hewitt's Photo Shop [bird's eye view of automobile preparing to cross bridge]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection