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B1989.016.522.17.TIF
Remodeling the Anchorage Hotel, exterior.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.3.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B2015.008.1031
209.9. Old bridge in N. [H.?] where the weight of the winter’s snow would be a strain
but for the sloping roof [covered bridge in winter. With stamp of Dora Keen]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.024.2069
King Island, copyright 1986 [five men, hunters, with guns, binoculars; walruses in foreground; water, snow, ice in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.456.10
1. Hewitt's [construction of Providence Hospital]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.11.004
3-3; view from kitchen [structures; domiciles; fence; boardwalks; wood plank ramp; possibly Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1993.020.1204
{Togiak aerial views and school with teachers and community buildings}
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1989.016.2281.3.15
(Alyeska Olympic National Ski event, April 5, 1963. Section 4)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.69.12
[two soldiers wearing broad-brimmed hats and backpacks with packboards stopped on ridgeline, one carring pickax, another pickax propped against backpack and hat on ground in foreground]
Keywords: hiking, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1082
M18 Dredging for Alaskan gold [copy neg; same as .1082]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.P.2.22.18
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1990.014.5.AKNative.7.73
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.18
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.456.11
4. Hewitt's [construction of Providence Hospital]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.77
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2015.008.533
Where the day before stood 2 large cattle barns, 16’ silo, and creamery [building foundations. Cf. .1012]
Collection: B2015.008
B2009.017.1991.02.028
Mottos
Keywords: comics, exxon valdez, evos, Anchorage Daily News, political, cartoons
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.5.AKNative.38.59
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1984.077.10.018
Week's Field? [Pollack Flying Service, Airplane in flight, airplane, building and trees in distance.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1991.011.134
"2 Eek belles" [summer scene; two young women wearing kuspuks pose in front of village structures, homes]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.083.70.1.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.2144.29
A group of hard workers, Dawson Y.T. #111. Larss & Duclos Photos, Dawson (Old Klondike) [prostitutes outside row of buildings. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection