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B1989.016.1773.2
(Juneau) [docks at left, downtown in center, tank at far right, mountains behind]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.136
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1990.014.5.P.2.18.3A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1989.016.2083.5
(Fourth of July Parade, Anchorage, 1935) [spectators watching Alaska Railroad float pass on Fourth Avenue near F Street, with banners hanging over road and signs for businesses including Hotel Gitchell, Ship Creek Meat Co.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.P.27.55.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P27
B2017.011.151
Alaska ’47 – Unalakleet, Eskimos helping with mail and freight [passengers next to Alaska Airlines DC-3 tail number NC91007. Cf. B2013.006.4.8, B2014.016.2006]
Collection: B2017.011
B2006.023.5051
Joe Redington Sr. and unidentified woman at Commemorative Serum Relay Race.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.5.Scn.8.18.002
Hubbard Glacier; AIR; Veniaminof trip. Mt Veniaminof: caldera is full of ice yet a cinder cone shows on the glacier. Shot for National Park Service 1972. Hammond (later Governor) was pilot on this project. About August 1972 [not Hubbard Glacier; Alaska Peninsula, mountains, river valley]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1995.010.3380
[man standing next to boat under construction in village, dog yard at right, houses at left. Cf. .3385]
Collection: B1995.010
B2007.005.6.A8
[unknown individual dressed in winter attire attending to a working dog team attached to sledge, winter]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1989.016.764.6
P-449B. Hewitt's Photo (Farm animals, Matanuska Valley) [boy with horse]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.166.58.6.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1077.2
P-275. Hewitt's (Palmer Homes) [two automobiles parked in front of wood frame building with mountains behind]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.15.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.2018.1.79.005
29-3; view [scenic view looking through spruce at mountains, water, forest; near Saxman; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.87.84
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.77b
(Anchorage Schools Romig Jr HI)(Romig Hill)(school building)
Keywords: education, school, students
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools