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B2015.008.364
37 acre meadow in front of house. Virginia Freeman, 1919 [young girl standing in cultivated field, Dora’s niece]
Collection: B2015.008
B1984.077.15.008
[Scenic view, water, mountains, possible icebergs. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1995.014.69.14
[scenic of broad river valley, trees in foreground, mountains in distance, probably Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.70.9
[soldier wearing backpack climbing steep ice cliff]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.82.14
[soldiers with amphibious vehicle in wooded area in winter]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.627a
Good camp site from slides [arrow] three climbers wearing backpacks and holding picks reclining on snow in foreground cornice above]
Keywords: glaciers, mountaineer, Mt Blackburn, mountain climbing
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.010.6039
[Clarissa sitting on dock, Sugarloaf Mountain in background, Valdez, 1940s]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.6.7
Sam Applebaum, trader at Russian Mission. Behind him was the new Russian Mission church, constructed from the remains of the old church, which was torn down in 1941
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.70.5
[soldiers working slime line set up on beach along river or inlet]
Keywords: military, fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.627b
154_1 resting on 70 degree slope at 10400 feet 430_12_7am 9th day [proof print 3 copies]
Keywords: mountain climbing, mountaineer, Mt Blackburn, glaciers
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1576.6
[winter view of Curry Hotel and Alaska Railroad depot from across Susitna River, showing pedestrian bridge, Curry buildings, and walled tents]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5662
Kasilof, 1945 [town scene, looking down boardwalk or dock to buildings, signs for Coca-Cola in foreground, Seldovia? Has neg. Cf. .1949]
Collection: B1995.010
B2021.006.46
“Wife-killing trial begins for Bob Dorr” by Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News, October 12, 2006
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Trial, Murder trial, Anchorage Daily News, ADN, African Americans, Black Lives in Alaska, Black Alaskans, Alaskans
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B1995.010.5617
[Alaska Native boy fishing from riverboat tied to beach at fish camp, second boat and possibly fish trap in background]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.1830
"Glen Hi-Way", Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [unpaved Glenn Highway in winter, with view to mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2144.34
#138, 2634. Bird's eye view showing the mouths of the Klondyke and Bonanza emptying in the Yukon. Larss & Duclos Photos, Dawson, 1900 (Old Klondike) [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.134
A53 reindeer roundup, 1948 3 negs & 1 print + 1 reindeer & Eskimo [corral] "Gyuriak photo"
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1996.035.1.234
[Adak, World War II, Quonset huts, tents, and buildings]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B1998.014.1.1492
S62 General Buckner, Alaskan Commander [man stands at creek bank, two dogs; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.150
A58 Alaskan king crab "Homer, Alaska: (1-photo by Hilcher [likely Hilscher]) (1-Homer) (1-King Crab)
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.011.100
Alaska ’47 – Bear Lake (named because of a close call with brownie), Clarence Rhode, Fish & Wildlife [man angling on lakeshore]
Collection: B2017.011
B1998.014.1.502
"D17 team of Siberian sled dogs, Fairbanks, Ranger on patrol" [same as .501, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.115a
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [label] “12” [man standing atop log held by stone supports; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.115b
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [label] “12” [verso of slide: man standing atop log held by stone supports; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1979.002.5895
From label: Tunnel holing thru ceremonies - 4; Maj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner and party entering tunnel for ceremonies [stamped:] confidential [from verso:] 11/20/42; Ceremonies (Whittier Tunnes); 4x5 copy neg; Signal Corps U.S. Army Official Photograph [men wearing overcoats, helmets, headlamps]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.763
L9 Ranger's cabin & cache, McKinley Park [same as .761, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.130
J41 (From boat Cataract Surprise Baker and Serpentine Glaciers)
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1300.dk561
561 [view down glacier, pack resting on ice near crevasse in foreground]
[.774] – 563 [has print]
Keywords: mountain, mountaineering, glacier, climbing, crevasse
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.245
Point below Twenty Mile Creek. P. S. Hunt J1851 [view down Alaska Northern Railway/Alaska Railroad tracks looking south, Turnagain Arm mudflats at right, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.964c
Photo by E.F. Foley, N.Y. Who went to Alaska in 1914 explore and map the sources of
the Harvard and Bryn Mawr Glaciers in an unexplored part of the Chugach Mts., above College
Fjord, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Miss Keen is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. In 1912
she made the 1st ascent of Mt. Blackburn, Alaska, 16,140 ft., in an expedition that required 33
days on ice and snow, and is the only sub-Arctic exploration ever organized and led by a
woman. A surveyor will be of the party this time. The Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp,
Belgium, had invited Miss [studio portrait of Dora]
Keywords: woman
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.109
24310(92414)(315pm)(Cataract and Serpentine Glacierfrom boat)
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, Glaciers, icebergs
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.632
155.11. Preparing to dig igloos at 12,400 ft. 9th day [two climbers stopped on slope,
poles, packs, and picks in snow. Cf. .818, .823]
Keywords: climbers, mountaineering, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.635
162.7. Looking towards Mt. St. Elias from 16,000 ft. 5.18.12, 7:45 P.M. [bird’s eye view
across mountain range]
Keywords: mountaineering, Mt Blackburn, Wrangell Mountains, glacier, crevasses
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.677a
226.11 [base camp on rocky slope, three men under tarp with stick poles, small tent in
center background, two men holding pots over camp fire, one man looking through pack,
glacier in distance. cf. .779, .1296]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, mountaineering, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.793
T22 [two small tents and tarp set up on rocky slope below overhanging rock with
striations, possibly Dora underneath tarp. has neg]
Keywords: tent, camp
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.793.t22
T22 [two small tents and tarp set up on rocky slope below overhanging rock with
striations, possibly Dora underneath tarp. has neg]
Keywords: tent, camping, camp, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B2012.036.14
Fourth Avenue, Denali Theatre, Special Agent Peyton stands in front [1964 earthquake, Anchorage]
Collection: B2012.036
B2015.008.624
(149_7 Sunrise on Blackburn and Reynolds _450 A[person in foreground wearing snowshoes testing ice with pole climbers in distance leading dogs pulling loaded sleds up glacier]
Keywords: mountains, glaciers, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.625a
(Water nearing base camp 5th day 730 am[person in fore ground wearing snowshoes testing ice with pole climbers in distance leading dogs pulling loaded sleds up glacier]
Keywords: glacier, dog, mountaineer, snowshoes, mountains, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008