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B1983.091.S2023.10
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Rita Martin putting up large star on the federal bldg flag)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.TV.046.34
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV / vilda
B90.14.5.ANC.5.83
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B2000.014.637
(637) Ruby Str Delta from graveyard hill ruby July 22 1916)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1989.016.2066.2
(Gottstein warehouse) [rows of shelving holding goods including Carnation Evaporated Milk, Special Morning Evaporated Milk, C and H Powdered Sugar, and Tide]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.97.6
[Quonset hut with sign "Out of Bounds" partially buried in snow, road in foreground, mountains in distance, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.164
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1989.016.1146.48
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Jan. 24, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage in winter, workman working on walls for postal annex]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.001.042
Mayfield Evans, far left, with students and teachers at True Vine Christian School, 2007
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Students, Pupils, Teachers, True Vine Christian School, Christian School, School, Education, Kids, Children, Uniform
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.86A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.TV.094.327.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.2281.2.13
(Alyeska Olympic National Ski event, April 5, 1963. Section 2)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.692
F18 Southeastern Alaska, the world's favorite fishing spot. Photo by Frank Morgan. [copy neg; same as .688]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.ANC.5.131a
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B1990.014.4.Science.8.01473
Tundras of Denali National Park at Right is Mt. McKinley 20,200' 6195 Meters High
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2073.17
(Anchorage Houses, Nov. 1964, 12th and S Street) [single level home, winter, with fence along street, street signs]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.059b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: winter scene of two people with sledge, ski poles, supplies, flag, snowshoes; mountains and valley in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1995.010.5917
Anchorage [unidentified woman wearing fur parka, mukluks, and knit mittens standing on porch of log house in winter, same parka as Clarissa is wearing in .5915, Fairview, 1940s. Has neg
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.004.28100
4th Ave, Anchorage, East from the Denali Theater June 1959 28100
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.2018.1.301.003
2; March 1943; Spool, thread & thimble [still life on fabric]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1559
Winter in Anchorage. Hewitt's Photo (Frosted Beauty) [winter scene overlooking Cook Inlet, with hoar frost on trees in foreground]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.45.005
18-6 man on dock [1939; smoking pipe; people, structures, and vehicles in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.886
L78 along Turnagain Arm Alaska Railroad (1947 postcard) [copy neg; same as .885]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.26
Mac's Foto
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1998.014.1.646
E58 Alaskan Native headdress "Klukwan Native" [same as .646, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.ARR.5.8.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 5
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.126
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.19.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative