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B2015.008.616
exploring an ice cave on Mt Blackburn[roped climber smoking pipe holding ice pick standing in ice cave]
Keywords: mountaineer, mountains, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.010.2270
[villagers gathered on riverbank, fish wheel on river in background]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.256.1
Breakup at Nenana, 1940 [Nenana Ice Pool]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.7699.jpg
Pioneer Roadhouse, Farewell Lake, 1974
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 7000-7999
B1984.077.7.012
[Riverbed? Trees and mountains in background. Neg is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1995.014.99.4
[four surveyors at work, mountains in distance, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B2000.017.306
1014 [commercial slide. Woman wearing print parka with fur trim working thread in her fingers, two pairs of completed moccasins in front of her; no date]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2017.011.4
Alaska ’48 – Brooks (H), Marion landing small trout [Marion Hopkins angling in river]
Collection: B2017.011
B1984.077.7.017
[River, rocks, bushes, guardrail? in foreground, mountain in distance. Neg is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.1752
[studio portrait of two Alaska Native children in fur parkas and mukluks]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1753
#1 [musher with bib #19 (or 29) racing dog team down trail in winter, Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.59.002
22-6 deer at Ward Cove [8:30 pm - Aug. 5th [1939; black-tailed deer on side of road; cab of automobile in lower left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.59.002
22-6 deer at Ward Cove [8:30 pm - Aug. 5th [1939; black-tailed deer on side of road; cab of automobile in lower left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1845
T132 (T130 Valdez) [street scene on gravel surface; automobiles, semi truck; men near semi; structures; wooden wheeled wagons at left; steel drums (containers) at left; businesses: Valdez Transfer Co, Sherwin Williams Paint; Rooms; Café, Smith’s Liquor Store, Golden North Hotel, Hamms Beer, Alaska (?) Standard; mountains in background; birds on roof at left, possibly pigeons]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2002.018.27
South Seas Nite Club, owner Fred Bearden - downstairs from Berts Drug Store, corner 4th & F. [circa 1946] 5 x 7 negative
Collection: B2002.018 FIC
B1998.014.1.1411
S118 Native Alaskan Cemetery {1946 postcard (Eklutna)} [two service men look at gravesites, spirit houses, orthdox crosses]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.Album1.31
M-43. Talkeetna near mouth. W. F. Milliken [wide riverbed with driftwood and snags, mountains in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2002.019.915J
Fred & Sara & pups, summer [from verso] Pub 81 [man kneelling on one knee in snow wearing seal fur parka, pants, and mukluks photographs sled dogs; sled in center; Fred Machetanz]
Collection: B2002.019
B1989.016.2143.20
32. Anchorage citizens meet Wisconsin colonists. Hewitt's Photo Shop [large crowd gathered on platform next to tracks at Alaska Railroad depot in Anchorage, passenger train unloaded, some people getting into automobiles parked at right, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2002.018.26
South Seas Nite Club, owner Fred Bearden - downstairs from Berts Drug Store, corner 4th & F. [circa 1946] 5 x 7 negative
Collection: B2002.018 FIC
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.171
Scn; Portage Glacier, 1957; Glaciers [view of lake with icebergs from shore, glacier and mountains in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2017.011.22
Alaska ’48 (H) – Brooks, Big Bend pool [distant view of four people angling in river]
Collection: B2017.011
B2014.019.262
Delphiniums, Mullaney’s, Palmer, 7-42 [tall flowers next to house entrance. cf. .67]
Keywords: Palmer, Dr. Flora, Doctor Flora, Mullaney, Matthew Mullaney, Matthew P. Mullaney, Delphiniums, House, Yard, Fence, Flowers, Delphiniums
Collection: B2014.019
B1998.014.1.1940
T182 Nunaka Valley housing projet [sic: project] east of Anchorage [road, structures, mountains in background; sign: Nunaka Valley Homes rental office; Anchorage Park, Inc.; snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.3382
[Clarissa and Phyllis McCutcheon walking in village past houses]
Collection: B1995.010
B2002.019.923
[from verso] pub 35 mm #18 [man and woman fishing in river; photographer with camera on tripod in background; rowboat in right foreground; mountains in background]
Collection: B2002.019
B1979.002.Album1.126
10-C. Crib Dike Mile 54 1/2 A.N. Ry. C. R. Breck [wooden dike on gravelly river near Spencer Glacier, Alaska Northern Railway Route, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.16
M-50. Talkeetna River. W. F. Milliken [wood-frame building, log cabin, cache and tent on banks of river, birch bark canoe hauled onto bank in foreground, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, residences, houses, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.1560
Wiley Post and Will Rogers at Fairbanks, Alaska [Chena River at Fairbanks, August 14, 1935. Airplane is Lockheed Orion/Explorer on J5300 EDO floats, tail number NR12283]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.160
Scn 10 3479 53; Portage pinnacle [Portage lake, icebergs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1991.011.599
"Newtok camp on Nelson Isl. [island], 1958" [group of children pose with ocean in background; boy at center back wearing parka with ruff identified at 2019 AFN as Tommy Kusiak]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2002.019.933E
[from verso] pub 78 [man standing on steps at entrance to clan house; likely in Southeast; camera on tripod; totem; Fred Machetanz]
Collection: B2002.019
B2002.019.934A
[from verso} pub 52 [man wearing hooded jacket stands with camera on tripod looking at glacier face; rocks and water in foreground; Machetanz]
Collection: B2002.019
B2017.011.121
Alaska ’48 – Pilgrim River, Pat realizes she has one on! [woman wearing rain gear, angling in river]
Collection: B2017.011
B2017.024.2560
Nome, August 1961 [State trooper, man and three boys gather around Wien Cessna 180 aircraft N4673A parked on gravel roadway or airstrip; structure in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1979.002.Album1.277
R17-7. Mike Sullivan's cabin, Portage Glacier. R. J. Weir ["Portage Glacier" crossed out in pencil. Distant view of homestead at base of glacier, log cabin and tent at right, second cabin at left, rowboat on gravel bar in center, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, houses, residences
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2019.003.034
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Going to fish camp [young woman and two young men in skiff with outboard motor] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, Education, U.S. Government, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Fish camp, Going to fish camp, Camp, Boat, Boating, Skiff, Outboard motor, Indigenous
Collection: B2019.003
B1979.002.Album1.282
R33-1. Portage Bay (Whittier Glacier in background) [railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2018.023.046a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [woman wearing kuspuk and mukluks carries a baby on her back as she walks through sand; canvas wall tents, structures, clotheslines in background; possibly Nome; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023