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TV.202.5.7a
(Eskimo hunters of Wainewright have just brought in two walruses local kids play on the beached walruses)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1624.1
1. (Dedicating the Aurora Train, Alaska Railroad) [group of soldiers wearing MP helmets marching on Fourth Avenue at E Street, passing Hewitt's Drug Store, Cheechako Tavern, and Alaska Airlines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2149.2
R-4, #26B (Rodeo on the Fourth of July, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [crowd gathered in field]
Keywords: animal husbandry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.275.002
85-4; Lt. (jg) Solloway & Dr. Self [portrait of man wearing Coast Guard uniform and combination cap; 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B90.14.5.Logging.1.5.32
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1990.014.5.TV.094.327.27
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1522.2
(Fruit and Vegetables, Anchorage, 1937) [produce market stands]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.193
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.2.24
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1990.014.5.ConConv.21.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1995.010.2425
Linda Nappe [young girl wearing winter clothing posed outdoors, dog at left, mountains in background, Anchorage]
Keywords: children, animals
Collection: B1995.010
B1970.019.382
W.R. Matheson, winter of 1916 [man wearing snowshoes and carrying rifle]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B2017.024.1986.tagging02
Polar bear survey -- tagging team works on drugged bears - Chukchi.
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.014.19.7
[portrait of dog wearing pack, river in background, possibly Yukon River]
Keywords: transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.27
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1993.020.1146
(Anchorage, AK)(1957)(JAck Goodman Derby)(Soap box derby){variety of kids and their soap box race cars}
Keywords: soap box, derby
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1990.014.5.P.2.15.18
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B2006.023.4132.jpg
Ice and gravel on the south fork of the Kuskokwim. Same as #3908. Slide also labeled "Near Rohn checkpt. south fork Kusk."
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1989.016.445.2
Malemutes. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [puppies]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.284
B53 Copper Center Trading Post and Roadhouse [Post Office, log structures, ladders, mountain in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.EQ.6.4.19
Anchorage sand and gravel back in biz after 27 March 1964, Quake damage. No Print
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_6
B1990.014.5.TV.094.327.8A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
AEC.G659
A.E.C. G659 Baker and Co.'s Camp Station 9800
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC