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B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.39.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2000.013A.s10.004
[from verso] "Chef." [aerial view of village of Chefornak, river, ponds; wing of aircraft in upper portion of image]
Collection: B2000.013A
B2019.019.IA9-27
Rain Forest - Glacier Bay, 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Glacier Bay, Trees
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.19
Feeding ducks at Campbell Lake in late spring 1964 due to the dam breaking 3363 Lakeside Dr.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1994.022.392B
(Aeronautics_Disaster)(Owen Meals crash at Gakona 1928)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.3.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B2018.023.098a
[scenic view of railroad track on edge of mountain; mountains in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.94
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.Cunningham, WC.1
[Cunningham,WC,Passport Photos, 1942]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1998.014.1.2050
V3 Matanuska Valley "Harvest Time (haying) 1946 postcard" [copy neg; two men loading hay onto back of truck]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2005.013.121
Fishing in creek near Hooper Bay, 7-1951 [Alaska Native women fishing from bank, other women near drying racks and kayak in background]
Collection: B2005.013
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.74.15
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.P.25.89.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P25
B1990.014.5.AKNative.7.109.6b
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.ANC.4.64
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_40_5_ANC_4
B1989.016.195
Newhalen fishing [group standing in water next to Star Airways float plane]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.5.8.20
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 5
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.30.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B2018.025.006
[Sydney Laurence painting of sea coast, name “Cameron, S-4” added to negative, tinted]
Collection: B2018.025
B1995.014.59.7
Hospital, Mountain Village, Dr. Cortell, 1937 [surgeon wearing scrubs operating on patient, nurse at right]
Keywords: health, medicine
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.218.002
[woman squatting on rocky shoreline wearing one glove; April 1941; likely Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018