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B1990.014.4.scn.5.MtMcKNorth.00586
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_4_scn_5
B1990.014.2018.1.84.004
30-2; Repacking scene [stacks of salmon fiilets on open shelves; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2073.2
(Anchorage Houses, Nov. 1964, Columbia and Stanford) [automobile in driveway of single level wood-frame home, winter, with fire hydrant and street signs]
Keywords: residences, houses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1555.2
[still life with vegetables and flowers, Palmer or Matanuska Colony?]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1965
T198 Seward Dock & Alaska R.R. Depot "1954 aerial" [structures; automobiles; Resurrection Bay]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.707
237.11. Smith Glacier, College Fjord, Alaska. Harvard in distance [distant view down
College Fjord, pine trees in foreground. With stamp of Dora Keen. Cf. .48]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, Chugach Mountains, glacier, tidal glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1380
V5 Matanuska Vegetables (S5 Alaska Grown soldier w/turnip & cabbage; 1946 postcard) [serviceman poses in field holding vegetables; straw stacks, structure in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2000.014.803
(803)(Basil Child Arthur Nekokedelief Kokrines June 19 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1990.014.5.EQ.21.1.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_21
B1989.016.2074.14
(Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954, #7a) [musher with bib #15 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, Reed's, 515 Club]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.056.181A.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.ConConv.12.32
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.People.14.345
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.5.AKNative.24.61.21
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2015.008.1078
[burial monument, John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782-1850]
Keywords: cemetary, John Caldwell
Collection: B2015.008
B1983.091.S2018.11
(voting at Alaska Statehood Polls)(voting and counting ballots)
Keywords: voting
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.TV.040.24.22A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.103
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1093
P-290B. Hewitt's [General view of Corporation Bldgs., Palmer, with road in foreground, mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.083.73.11.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.AKNative.24.72
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2016.019.4.23.02577.03
Farm in Matanuska Valley, Alaska, [Matanuska Valley and Glacier], c. 1981
Keywords: farm, matanuska valley, matanuska, southcentral, alaska, Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Matanuska Valley and Glacier, Matanuska Farms
Collection: B2016.019
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.19.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2013.070.04
Anchorage 1953 [woman in costume riding paint horse down street, house and spectators in background; Shrine Circus?]
Collection: B2013.070