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B2015.008.468
Fortifications, P.R. [commercial postcard, with Dora’s typed caption: “San Juan Harbor, Porto Rico, Jan. 1928”]
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.014.57.6
[villagers meeting Consolidated Fleetster airplane on skis, tail number NC705Y, dog team with sled at right, Yukon River, possibly Marshall?]
Keywords: postal services, aviation, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.004.animals.24.36479
Reindeer: rangifer taranous[four reindeer, tundra, snow]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B1990.014.5.AKNative.4.64
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.39.18
[debris at site of airplane crash, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: aviation, aircraft accidents
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.029.2586
Tokosha Mt. Lodge [man sitting on Ski-Doo snowmachine on frozen lake; print date Apr 85]
Collection: B2017.029
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.1.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1989.016.VarraGeorge.1
Varra, George Passport Photos, 1942
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.87
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B2015.008.1003a
1922 [distant view of two men in field of flowering bean plants. Cf. .419. 2 copies]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.16.1
Night time scene of a house burning.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B1990.014.5.AKNative.38.68.10B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.2.94
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.51.17
[military ships in harbor, boat docked at right, mountains in distance, Adak]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.61.14
[two soldiers using log ladder to cross crevasses]
Keywords: hiking, mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.Album1.68
Oil house, A.N. Ry., 24' x 15'. Eugene Underwood [Alaska Northern Railway buildings next to curving track, sign reading Duke's Mixture Smoking Tobacco, mountains in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2021.004.95
Military portraits and photographs, and ephemera. Caption on verso: "Edward Patroling [sic] The Gate of Fort Greely" [Ed Wesley, Military Police, Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Military, Police, Soldier, Patrol, Fort Greely, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1998.014.1.991
Aleutian volcanos [sic] L129 Aleutian scenery; Aleutian volcanoes aerial) [mountains, snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.011.127
Alaska ’48 – Pilgrim River, warmth in the arctic drizzle [man and two women smoking cigarettes standing around camp fire, probably Binks and Hazel Siefert with Edie Cole]
Collection: B2017.011
B1990.014.004.animals.24.36479
Reindeer: rangifer taranous[four reindeer, tundra, snow]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B2017.024.3556
April 1968 [winter scene of two hunters wearing parkas, carrying guns; likely near Savoonga] slide #6170
Collection: B2017.024
