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B1990.014.2018.1.42.004
17-3 Ketchikan Spruce Mill fire, June 27th [1939, men gathered outside structure; men operating fire hose from rooftop; observers and lumber in foreground]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.99.108
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1979.002.Album1.302
D. L. Reaburn's camp. D. L. Reaburn [bird's eye view of white tents in a valley, termination dust on mountains in distance, railroad exploration party, Kenai Peninsula or Matanuska Valley, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.294.6
Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 18. Hewitt's. Cement pouring at 10 degrees.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.107.9
[two-story log cabin and outbuilding in winter, shoulder of road in foreground]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B2018.023.090a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “90” “Arctic Owls; A-340 [?]” [three owls on perches, likely taxidermy with fabric background; black and white]
Collection: B2018.023
B1979.002.Album1.112
R22-8. Jim Ryan [written on back: "Jim Ryan, Controller Bay." man and dog on wooden dock, hills in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2006.023.6409
[Vi Redington and children with crib on beach. Flat Horn Lake?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1983.091.S3178.041
Unalakleet, fish racks, 7-18-60 [fish drying on wood racks; structures in background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2006.023.5311
[Groundbreaking for Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.54
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.BesserWilliam
Besser, William, Passport Photos, 1942
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1998.014.1.1076
M16 Gold dredge near Nome, Alaska [copy neg; water, tailings, rocks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.001.035
Mayfield Evans with granddaughter, Jamila Evans Reynolds, November 1988. [Note on back: Grandaddy & Jamila, Nov 88]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Jamila Evans Reynolds, Granddaughter, Infant, Baby, Girl, Family, Grandpa, Grandfather, Family, House, Home, Interior, Room
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2011.007.8.78
Tanana River ice break-up, Tanana, 1920s.
Collection: B2011.007 Mary Breu Etta Jones Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.309.004
91-1 April 1943; Pan X; Nome [woman with one child on back and two other children poses on street; snow in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.640
E56 Eskimo 'Wolf Dance,' at Anchorage, Alaska [dancers in wolf head masks, gloves, crouch; people sit on table behind wof dancers, some in fur parkas; possible leader sits facing dancers; auditorium, stage, backdrop of sea and sea ice; label is taped to neg, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.17.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1517
#224. Russian Church, Sitka. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [side view of St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.393P
(Aeronautics_Disasters)(Zenith Z-6)
Keywords: airplane
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2016.04.640
Picking seal meat off the killing fields, Pribilof Is., AK [men with plastic buckets bending over carcasses, trucks in background; print date Jul 84]
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2018.023.096b
[verso of slide: scenic view of river, possibly Miles Canyon, Yukon River in Yukon Territory; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.331
(B67 Cordova Post Office) [street view, buildings, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.People.14.371
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1989.016.1499.2
(Star Airways, skis, 1936) [airplane ski set on wooden horse outside hangar or workshop in winter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
