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B1990.014.5.EQ.18.14.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_18
B1970.019.380
Jack Isom (died 1925) "Tarantular Jack" & the bear he killed June 10/18. I was along with him at the time. My dog Dick lying down to left. [man holding rifle sitting with bear carcass and two dogs outside walled tent]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1990.014.5.People.14.358
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1995.014.123.17
Willow Creek, 1946 [close-up of dredge at mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2074.20
11 (Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954) [musher with bib #17 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Crocker's, Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon, Pacific Northern Airlines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.87.3
[US Army Transport George Washington Carver at dock, second ship at right, Quonset hut at right, two men on dock in foreground, Adak?]
Keywords: military, boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.CannonJohn.1
Cannon, John, Passport Photos, 1933
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.91.8B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
AEC.TT264
T 264 Healy Camp, Showing Healy River Coal Bunkers #2 L.N. Oct. 1, [19]21
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1989.016.2318.12
(Ed Suddach's Warehouse, interior, April 25, 1951) [i.e. Edwin Suddock, man standing next to boxes of goods and food in piles in loading bay area, including cartons of Crisco, Albers Quick Oats, and Friskies Dog Food]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.074b
[from verso of side “Carlisle Packing Co.; Cannery; Cordova, Alaska” verso of slide: view of skiffs, boats, shore, structures, pier, mountains in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1992
[T216, Anchorage, Mountain View. Automobiles and signs for businesses including Harold's Hardware, National Body Shop, Piggly Wiggly, Sears]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2390
[McGee Airways with Koslosky's Furs] L15
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1989.016.MichaelsLJ.1
(Michaels LJ Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1998.014.1.2593
F12 Intake of Stetson Creek Ditch K.M & M Co; Seward, Alaska; L.N.G "Mining" [Kenai Mining & Milling Company; wooden water diversion structure at waterfall; tributary of Cooper Creek]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2094.2
Merry Christmas [Christmas card mat with sketch of holly leaves and creek in winter with Sydney Laurence painting of Mt. McKinley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.017.1986.03.23
“Late March 1986: in a last-ditch gamble to save the budget, bureaucrats from the Department of Revenue quietly began buying up Nenana Ice Classic tickets” ©1986 Sunday March 23, 1986 [man at ticket window]
Collection: B2009.017
B1962.001A.518
Seepage ice in Teikel Canyon. P.S. Hunt, G797 [Tiekel River; Hunt (P.S.) Studio]
Keywords: Tiekel, Canyons, Rivers, Winter
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson