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B90.14.5.AncAir.21.120
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1990.014.5.TV.168.10.7.2B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1814
[hunter with six wolf carcasses hanging from pole, standing in front of airplane with tail number NC28_?, snowshoes propped in snow at left. copy neg]
Keywords: hunting, aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.64
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.37
Campbell Lake dump
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1998.014.1.553
D40 Two sour-sourdough [two sled dogs in harnesses, rope, snow, portrait]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.63
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B2022.001.010
Mayfield Evans, Guam [Note on front: Forever Loving you Mayfield] [Studio portrait likely taken while serving in the U.S. Air Force.]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, Alaskans, Guam, Travel, International, Studio portrait, Overseas, U.S. Air Force, US Air Force, Air Force, Inscription, Handwritten
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1970.073.038
22. Foot of third bench [on verso:] Tazlina [stereograph. Tents and men with loaded sleds on glacier. Probably Valdez Glacier]
Collection: B1970.073 Minnesota Historical Collection
B1989.016.2554.4
[Off to the potlatch, by Sydney Laurence]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1990.014.2018.1.268.025
83; Sept. 4, 1942; Aerial view of Ketchikan [?] [waterfront structures; smoke from possible mills; wing of aircraft in lower left of image]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2015.008.187
(j18){tide water glaciers and waters of Prince William Sound}
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1503
(Native Mother and Child, Alaska Airlines Copy) [Alaska Native woman wearing head scarf and carrying young child in baby belt. copy neg of print photo]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.293.002
88-9 March 43; Plus X; Trip back on ridge [dog wading or swimming in pond; near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2056.26
Hewitt's 26 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army gun) [soldiers and children gathered around heavy gun in Fur Rendezvous parade, in front of spectators, the federal building, and Fourth Avenue businesses including The Gitchell]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.21.6.43B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1977.89.009
Main Street Old Town Anchorage July 1915 {tent city with numerous people walking in and amongst the tents}
Keywords: frontier, tent, Anchorage
Collection: B1977.89 AHFAM FIC
B2006.023.4647.jpg
[Joe Redington Sr. with sled dog]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.26.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1989.016.1146.46
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Jan. 24, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage in winter, walls going up for postal annex]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.7.93.12
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2145.8
8 (American Legion Banquet at the Idle Hour Country Club, Anchorage) [interior with people at tables]
Keywords: businesses, military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection