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B1989.016.403.7
Anchorage street scene [bird's eye view of Fourth Avenue looking west, including IOOF Bldg., Eckmann's Furniture, U.G. Crocker, The Gitchell, Seidenverg Clothier]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.213.005
67-3 Grand Coulee Dam [Washington, March 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.024.2118
King Island, copyright 1986 [man carving wood with handmade adze; beach; structures in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2069.6
(IBM at City Hall, 2-4-65, computer room) [woman standing next to computers holding circuit board, IBM 403 at left, other equipment and filing cabinets visible, "Think" sign on wall, early computing]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.5.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1990.014.4.Scn.1.38273
[Winter scene of hikers on Portage Lake, slide dated APR 92]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1970.028.104
L to R: John Dimond, Father B.R. Hubbard, Nicholas Cavaliere, 1936, Taku Ice Cap, Alaska [three men on glacier with movie camera]
Keywords: photography, cameras, Hollywood
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B90.14.5.Logging.1.6.36
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1995.014.8.4
The funeral of a young boy who went out trapping and presumably died of hypothermia. The priest's name was [Vasily] Changsak. [Russian Mission, procession]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.61.3
[soldiers wearing snowshoes stopped on mountainside during ascent, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.254.001
78-4 Elaine Cloudy [April 1942; Ketchikan; portrait, heart-shaped locket]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.4.Science.8.14489
Tundra; Aerial
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2218
Sydney Laurence, 1920. 156 [photograph of Sydney Laurence painting of cabin in winter. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.025.521
Mining: Coal: Colorado: Tundra above Broad Pass; man standing in tundra]
Collection: B2015.025
B1990.014.2018.1.86.004
31-1; Nov 23rd Pan X 32-20; Dev in DK 20-15 min @ 65°; Basha on staircase [woman wearing velvet-looking dress and pumps poses on stairs; paneled wall with art in background; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.010.6114
[aerial of CAA site with communications towers and buildings, 1940s. Cf. .5873]
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.5.AKNative.39.41
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2574
8, Interior dormitory room [Eklutna Industrial School].
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1979.002.Album1.171
53. Portage Bay flats. Thomas Riggs Jr. [scrub brush in flat at base of mountains, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.1122
O14 Sea shore cabin (1946 postcard) cabin built on rock outcropping, trees]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.002.088
Slides with images of Fleming family members and friends.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2015.008.1241
30e. Andes, near Puente del Fuca, Argentina [scenic. With stamp of Dora Keen]
Collection: B2015.008
