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B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.234
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.17.11
[portrait of dog next to Russian Orthodox cross grave marker, ice filled river in background, possibly Yukon River]
Keywords: animals, funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1647.5
(Merrill Field in winter) [snow plow on air strip conducting snow removal]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.5.8.46
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 5
B1989.016.1108.12
P-74-b. Hewitt's (A Matanuska Valley Colonist's home) [two-story wood frame house in clearing]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.788
T16 [view down fjord with icebergs and several tidewater glaciers, probably College
Fjord]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.P.2.26.2B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1990.014.5.People.3.214
"People - artists - John Svenson; 8/26/76; Alaska Mutual bank panels; see also Ervine,Tapscott"
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 3
B2014.016.1902
Kotzebue. Arriving in plane formerly owned by Gene Autry [children gathered on grass next to airplane with tail number NC59233, buildings visible across water in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2014.016
B2012.29.137
(4th Ave Anchorage Alaska)(September 1970)
Keywords: 4th ave, theater, tourism
Collection: B2012.029
B1989.016.2544
An Eskimo mother's pride. Hewitts Photo Shop Anchorage. [Small boy in parka]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B2015.008.1307.t28
T28 [climber carrying backpack and pick standing on glacier, crevasses in foreground.
cf. .1311]
Keywords: glacier, crevasse, mountaineering, mountain
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.SellersHarry.1
(Sellers Harry Passport Photos 1935-36)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2006.023.6536.jpg
Sprint racing Anchorage early 1950s
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1989.016.2147.16
No 16 (Opening night of the remodeled Ambassador Club. Photo by W. R. Dahms] [interior of bar area, Anchorage]
Keywords: recreation, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.239.6
Fur Rendezvous Display, Anchorage, Alaska, 1938, No. 6. Hewitt's Photo Shop.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.002.070
Left to right, Sheldon Fleming, Samuel Fleming, Gregory Fleming, Anchorage, Alaska, 1961 [family headed to church.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Sheldon Fleming, Gregory Fleming, Anchorage, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1989.016.1020.2
GZ-144 (Hiking in the Golden Zone) [woman in hat and boots walking across snow field with stream and hills beyond]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2464
"Flash tests (each one numbered or has letter) 100th sec F3.2 w/#2 bulb" [similar to .2460; "Lt" displayed on tables]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.P.2.28.9B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.114
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B90.14.5.ARR.4.36.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 4
B1989.016.1596.1
[Anchorage street scene, Fourth Avenue looking east, with automobiles and businesses including Carol's, Sunshine Market, Alaskan Publishing Co. Printers, Rose Florist's Shop, Piggly Wiggly, The Club, Tom's Radio Service, OK Cleaners, New Method Cleaners, South Seas Club, Alaskan Surplus, 4th Avenue Theater. circa 1930s]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.007.008
[interior of store, displaying art, bottled and canned goods, and rolled items, cf. .5]
Collection: B2013.007
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20