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B1973.079.47
[Beach at Nome with horses, people and supplies at waters edge][offshore barge and dedge seen in background]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.48
[Seward Peninsula train on tracks carrying supplies]
Keywords: trains, transportation
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.49
[Nome downtown scene with pedestrians on the street]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.10
Earthquake damage Anchorage March 27, 1964 Inlet Hotel. 4th at L St.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1989.016.1365.1
An Anchorage garden [garden in residential area in foreground, house visible in back. copy neg]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.147
(catastrophe)(Alaska, Anchorage )(Dr. A.H. Romig cabin w/frost in late 1930's At top of Romig Hill)
Keywords: winter, cabin
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2015.008.905a
[bird’s eye view of town along railroad, tracks in foreground, water tank and railroad
station at left, with wood-sided buildings, walled tents and log cabins, Chitina? 3 copies]
Keywords: railroad, cabins, mountain, town
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1575.2
(Dog and bear at Curry, Alaska) [bear on luggage cart on platform at Curry depot, Alaska Railroad]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2258.3a
(Anchorage Log Cabin Visitors Center in winter)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1574
162. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [workers harvesting crop in field, one man with tractor, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1774
(McKinley Apartments, Anchorage) [automobiles parked outside apartment building on Fourth Avenue and Cordova Street]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5788
[passengers preparing to board railroad motorcar No. 111 at Anchorage. Has neg]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.1989.6
International Airport Anchorage Alaska, Hewitts Drug Store Photo (Anchorage International Airport, May 8, 1954 copy)[Two large commuter/cargo planes on the tarmac]
Keywords: airport, planes, mountains, terminal, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2304.3
(Mountain scenery along Cook Inlet) [Alaska Railroad train traveling along Turnagain Arm]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.23
4th Ave looking east from H St. Earthquake of 1964
Keywords: streets, buildings, traffic signal, cars, street light, national guard soldiers
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1998.014.1.328
B66 Cordova Hospital and City Hall [two buildings on dirt street, wood plank sidewales, automobiles parked alongside roadway]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.348
(B73 Anchorage, Westward Hotel) [gravel street, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.020.003
[Army tanks and other equipment in parade on Fifth Avenue, passing businesses including Pagoda Restaurant, 76 station, Polar Hotel, Polar Café]
Collection: B2017.020
B1989.016.1935.3
(L Street Apartments, Anchorage, Nov. 6, 1952) [building exterior with automobiles in parking lot]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1935.4
(L Street Apartments, Anchorage, Nov. 6, 1952) [building exterior with automobiles in parking lot]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2271.7
(American Institute of Mining Engineers banquet, February 24, 1950) [group portrait of men standing behind table]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2306.2.4
(Hewitt's) [interior view down aisle with goods]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5787
[passengers preparing to board railroad motorcar No. 111 at Anchorage. Has neg]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.347
(B73 Anchorage, Westward Hotel) [gravel street, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2258.4b
(Anchorage Log Cabin Visitors Center in winter)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.33
Odom Building after the earthquake at 2nd and C
Keywords: pedsestrians, damaged buildings
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B2016.006.1875
[fenced enclosure with two flags flying, automobiles at right; print date Aug 79]
Collection: B2016.006
B2017.019.276
Fishing, Kenai River, Rita & Nicke, 2 Aug ’52 [Elanor and Rita cooking over camp fire, tent at left, garbage in woods behind them]
Collection: B2017.019
B1989.016.2099
(Nome?) [two Caucasian men and Caucasian woman all wearing mukluks standing next to wood-frame house with snow up to window frames, other buildings visible in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.009.12
Keywords: Jack & Nellie Brown., I think this is their government hill house
Collection: B2015.009
B1989.016.1227.1
Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's, 134 [exterior, taken from southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and F Street, with parked automobiles]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1410
Diamond N.N. Cannery, South Naknek, Bristol Bay. Hewitt's, 13 [men and boats near cannery buildings and dock. copy neg]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1576.2
(Curry Bridge) [pedestrian bridge over Susitna River at Curry Hotel, ice in river]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1576.3
(Curry Bridge) [pedestrian bridge over Susitna River at Curry Hotel]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2272
(Barnett's house) [Anchorage residence in winter. photographer's shadow visible in foreground]
Keywords: residences, houses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1214
Peru, sugar cane being fed into factory on plantation near Trujillo. Dec. 1908 [man standing on processing machine]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1411.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [homestead in winter, with cabin, fence, and trees covered in hoar frost]
Keywords: residences, houses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1863
Mt. McKinley and Alaska Range reflecting in Wonder Lake. Bragaw
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2276
[10th Rescue Squadron, Anchorage, Sikorsky H-5 helicopter in flight, circa 1954-1955. cf. 1832]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection