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B90.14.5.ARR.2.151
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B2009.049.3
Lillian Boston, village planning coordinator, makes a presentation to the villagers in Chistochina. March 1973
Collection: B2009.049
B1990.014.5.P.2.21.32
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
TV.202.21
08 20 1970 Air Wainwright
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.312
D-45. Got a Bite? Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (George Dale) [Alaska Native man ice fishing]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1108.6
P-22. Hewitt's (Buildings in early Palmer) [two two-story wood frame building]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.98.1
[military trucks on road, motor pool on left, winter, Adak?]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1577
T10 Seward, Alaska [view of shoreline, dock, ship, automobiles, railroad cars, depot, small boats, logs on shore, town, structures, mountains in background; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.522.5.TIF
Remodeling the Anchorage Hotel, exterior.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.FultonTom.2
[Fulton Tom Passport Photos 1942]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.81.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B2017.007.9
[Bird’s eye view of Anchorage from Westward Hotel looking east. Close-up of damage to parking lots between 4th and 3rd Avenues]
Collection: B2017.007
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.142
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2107.1
(Truck building Raspberry Road, 1948)
Keywords: roads, Anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1962.x.015.008
Spring break up on the Alcan Highway during the early construction days of WWII. Mud
was one of the major enemies which had to be conquered in completing the 1,600 mile-long
highway to AK. [US Army photograph] [1942-1943]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B2015.007.58
[group portrait of large Alaska Native family posed in sparsely wooded area in winter]
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.1675.1
(Winter Scenes along Highway) [snow covered river with mountains in background, Glenn Highway]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1113
P-390. 8/31/36. Hewitt's Photo Shop [Matanuska Valley scene, cultivated fields with mountains in distance]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.008.002
Rich Coleman, Peg, Sherrie [man and woman standing next to chalkboard reading "Everyone Fall In, We’re Having A Ball!" with Halloween images, Peggy behind board, Tatalina Lodge], c. 1950s
Keywords: Halloween, People, Tatalina Lodge, Peggy Farmer Mullins
Collection: B2019.008
B1998.014.1.2050
V3 Matanuska Valley "Harvest Time (haying) 1946 postcard" [copy neg; two men loading hay onto back of truck]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley