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B2021.004.121
JUN 73. Note on back: “The first summer in Alaska, Marys Apt. Tr. #3, Fran, Ed & Chairita”
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Fran Wesley, Frances Wesley, Chairita Wesley, Family, Alaska, Summer, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1998.014.1.2482
"Sticking shutter shots; Ellis Air Lines" [aerial view of coastal town, possibly Ocean Falls, BC (?); airplane float in left foreground; mountains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.35.001
14-4 Carol Marsh [Carol Gale Marsh - June 18th [1939] 5 days old; woman wearing nurse uniform holding infant next to window; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.21.003
5-5 weathervane [ladder affixed to wall leading to weather reading instruments, possibly anemometer; mountain in background; Ketchikan, 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.EQ.19.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_19
B2019.003.006
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” New girls dormitory [exterior of building] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet (Eklutna)]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, School, Education, U.S. Government, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Girls, Dormitory, Dorm
Collection: B2019.003
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.87
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1146.25
(Building Federal Building, Inside Construction, Feb. 27, 1940) [construction of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, interior of lobby space]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.4924
"8/8/1919M. Sabine. Oat field East Road" [sleeve 59 Fairbanks area agriculture, utility poles and cables, fence post in foreground]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2006.023.4695
[Joe Redington, Sr., with team on the trail, stopped in a wooded area. Mr. Prime Beef sponsorship visible on sled basket.]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2018.023.038b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: two girls wearing kuspuks with fur-trimmed hoods and mukluks pose; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.2018.1.180.002
60-2 views taken around Thomas Basin; Basha's [January 1941, Ketchikan; waterfront structures built on pilings; reflection; seagulls atop pilings; boat at right; mountain in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B90.14.5.ANC.4.71
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_40_5_ANC_4
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.112
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1979.002.4670
"north hillside May 1, 1918. Plenty moisture here" [sleeve 1; Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, two horses hitched to sledge; harness, yoke, two men standing in knee-deep snow; two dogs on wagon; fields in distance]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.87.38B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2015.008.1093
Granada, in the Alhambra. The garden on the slope leading up to the Torre de la Vela.
We climbed there only a little before sunset, and then through a lot of forbidding doors, came
out to this charming terrace, and the view to the west beyond [garden terrace]
.1094 – Granada, the Court of Myrtles. The first part of the Alhambra we saw together
[courtyard with pool]
Keywords: Granada, garden
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.25
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.ConConv.15.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B2017.020.061
July 59 Frank wife & Hoon passing Anch. [Chinese American woman posed with young boy in front of Northwest Airlines Douglas DC-7 airplane on tarmac at Anchorage International Airport, other passengers walking at left; print date Jul 59
Collection: B2017.020
B1983.091.S1880.7
Don Sheldon, Talkeetna Air Service (neg marked 1869-7 in margin) (Sheldon in cockpit) [Super Cub 135]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.51
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1989.016.BorsantGeorge.1
Borsant, George, Passport Photos, 1933
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2001.041.268
Map of Solomon Ditch
Keywords: mining, map, navigation, gold mining, gold rush, mining claim
Collection: B2001.041 Goetze
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.16.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2019.003.123
Old Russian church [woman standing next to old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church at Eklutna, ladder leading up to roof]
Collection: B2019.003
B2022.005.168
[Blurry image of young Indigenous Alaskan child waving at the viewer; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Child, Toddler, Waving, Wave, Buildings, Structures, Church, Community, Village
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.1155
O29 Paxson's Lodge, Richardson Hiway, Alaska (028 [on envelope] 1938; 1946 postcard) [interior view of roadhouse; rocking chairs, barrel stove, possibly victrola, record player, log structure, animal furs, hides on wall, sign for Rheinlander beer]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
