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B1998.014.1.999
L135 Leaving Whittier to points west on the Alaska Railroad. [view from inside tunnel, tracks, ladder on wall, structure to left outside tunnel, possibly Portage Lake, mountain in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2001.036.712
[print and original negative] water (ice) blocks, Kipnuk, AK , 5/82 [ice blocks on wooden sleds in front of house]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.37
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.8
(Sep 20 1956- 95099 56- Hall Shot city view school (Airport Heights)
Keywords: school, education, anchorage
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B2017.024.2076
King Island, copyright 1986 [woman in parka and blue scarf looks through binoculars; snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.128.003
43-5 Lee and Lyn [two children sit on bench eating crackers or cookies; interior view; windows, table, and chair in background; March 10-17, 1940; likely Seattle]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2015.008.994
Polly, daughter of Nydia [George standing with horse in yard next to barn. Cf. .436 et
seq. Excised from photo album]
Keywords: farm, vermont, horse
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.18.15
(timber)(July 1966)(KP. Co. Thorne Bay. Portable Steel SPAR)(N.P.)(very good)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.184
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2018.023.065b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [verso of slide: likely mining equipment at shore; steam engine?; man wearing cap in lower right; ropes; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.5.People.14.159
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1984.077.8.022
[Bears feeding on garbage, trash barrels, road, trees. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1990.014.3.730
Five Mile camp in Constr phase 19322
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.3
B1989.016.2141.34
D-44. Tom cod fishing, Koyuk, Alaska [two people sitting on ice near holes, two others walking nearby]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.115
[Dogsled team racing down snowy street, buildings and bystanders nearby]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Dogsled, Sled, Dogs, Husky, Huskies, Racing, Teams, Street, Winter, Snow, Recreation, Sport, Transportation, Buildings, Town, Community, Bystanders
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1995.014.43.1
[four men, possibly soldiers, with rowboat and small military launch near stand of birch trees on riverbank]
Keywords: boats, transportation, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.83.004
30-1, Sept. Pan X; Dev in DK 20-30 min @ 65°F; repacking scenes; intensified [stack of salmon filets; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.986
L124 Polychrome Pass; McKinley Park (July 14, 1948) [copy neg; same as .985]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.AncAir.22.38
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 22
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.5.25
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 5
B1989.016.1146.19
(Building Federal Building, Nov. 25, 1939) [walls with scaffodlding and piles of snow-covered supplies in foreground, construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.32
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [parade on Fourth Avenue, passing signs for businesses including The Gitchell, Seidenverg's, U. G. Crocker, Tent Factory, and Gordon's Cantilever Shoes]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.151
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
