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B1979.002.Album1.288
R32-5. Ship Creek Camp [four men sitting on bench in clearing, two log buildings in background, one with tarped roof, tall birch or cottonwood behind buildings, railroad exploration, circa 1914. Original image blurred]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2146.25
#25 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [military unit marching past federal building and Alaska Transfer Co. on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2281.2.5
(Alyeska Olympic National Ski event, April 5, 1963. Section 2)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.87.55
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1973.079.94
[group of men gathered on boardwalk with guns possibly military training or rifle range]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.14.5.People.12.036
People-Parades-Anchorage 1745-6; School house float; 4th July 47 [truck, children looking out window of schoolhouse, "Anchorage School," Dykes Bldg in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1965.018.020 copy
Caches Eskimo "Eglo" Cape Prince of Wales Cache Drying Walrus Hides 1903
Collection: B1965.018 Fred Henton
B1990.014.2018.1.57.004
22-4 [overexposed image of road]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.890
Community Hall, Palmer, Alaska. P-139, Hewitt's Photo Shop (890 Community Hall Postcard, folio 96) [log building]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.19.9
(timber)(July 1966)(KP. Co. Thorne Bay Yarder's Log Spar)(good)(np)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1998.014.1.1044
(M8 hydraulic shots - gold mining in Alaska) [similar to .1041]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Anc.Hous.5.220
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Hous
B2006.023.6771.jpg
Joe Redington Sr.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1989.016.2210.4
E-24 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [man wearing glasses in store or gallery with displays of Native arts and crafts including ivory carvings, mukluks, dolls; Eklutna Vocational School student or teacher]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.35.2A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2022.005.230
[Two Indigenous Alaskan young women in skirts standing on boardwalk; houses in background. Possibly Elva "Willie" Amidon on left.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young women, Teenagers, Teens, Skirts, Saddle shoes, Scarf, Fashion, Clothing, Lipstick, Makeup, Boardwalk, Fence, Building, Houses, Elva Amidon, Elva "Willie" Amidon, Willie Amidon
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.105.003
38-3 [Ketchikan; February 1940; bird in flight over water]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
b2012.006.476
[woman, girl, and boy posed with dog outside house in winter; no date. Cf. .959]
Keywords: families, animals
Collection: B2012.006
B90.14.5.Logging.1.2.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
AEC.G1600
AEC G1600_ At the end of steel mile 243 July 14 1920 {workers looking on as last of the rail is assembled}
Keywords: train, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.67A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2014.023.226
(scenic)(glacier terminus, mountain in distance)
Keywords: landscape
Collection: B2014.023
B1990.014.5.P.25.135
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P25
B1989.016.952
P-563. Matanuska Valley. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [homestead with log and wood frame house, barn and outbuilding]
Keywords: agriculture, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.1.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
