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B1984.055.258
Three women watching George Sullivan sign proclamation in Mayor’s Office
Collection: B1984.055
B2022.001.093B
[Photo received with note, see B2022.001.093.] [Photo: Barry Evans, Mayfield Evans, Alaska Governor Tony Knowles with E&S Diversified Services employees at Governor’s Family Picnic, 1997]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Family, Barry Evans, Son, Alaska, Alaskans, Governor, Governor Tony Knowles, Governor Knowles, Tony Knowles, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Employees, Crew, Team, Governor's Family Picnic, Picnic, State of Alaska, SOA, Office of the Governor, Governor's Office, Anchorage
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2009.020.017
{Anchorage Alaska 1988}{4th Avenue Theater interior and details}
Keywords: theater, 4th Avenue, interior, Anchorage
Collection: B2009.020
B90.14.5.Logging.1.5.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B2006.023.5454.jpg
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Sunset on the Knik River. Photo by Wayne Burkhart.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B1989.016.1205.1
Mt. McKinley, 20,300, highest mountain in North America. 68, Hewitt's Photo Shop
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.364.2
Farming at Palmer [woman and children in field with hay stacks]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.3.84.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 3
B1989.016.985
M-40. Harvest time, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [horse team pulling man on reaper]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.41
Earthquake-Aiport, June 12,1964 Anchorage-some earthquake ARR Rehab after EQ 64 Edited May 20.1075 NP
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1292.3
Salmon cannery, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's, 29 / No. 2. Salmon cannery, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop [aerial. double caption. copy neg]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.438.2
B.P.O.E. Fourth of July float, 1938 [elk statue draped in streamers]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.29
(timber)(September 1957)(Alaska)(Sorting saw native birch for kiln drying near Wasilla in the Matanuska Valley)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B2019.015.10
JUL 65P [View of Susitna River and trees to the left, July 1965]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Alaska, Susitna River
Collection: B2019.015
B1998.014.1.1720
T68 Orca Bay, Cordova, Alaska (Cordova from back of town) [scenic view looking over rooftops of structures toward water]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2024.001.234
“1959” [two individuals in civilian clothing sit in a clear sided helicopter at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, 1959. Other civilians and Air Force officers stand to the side]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base, United States Air Force, Helicopter, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B1989.016.1957
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Moose, south of Girdwood)[three moose grazing in the winter or early spring near the Alaska Railroad]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.EQ.6.4.13
Anchorage sand and gravel back in biz after 27 March 1964, Quake damage. No Print
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_6
B2015.008.132
2455 (92514)(4pm)(Baker Glacier from Duck Point)
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.59
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
b2011.014.23
Two men and a woman standing in front of store window. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B1990.014.5.P.26.38.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P26