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B1989.016.2030.2
(Anchorage from air, 1958) [aerial view looking east to Chugach Mountains, with road, forested land, cultivated land]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.6351.jpg
Joe Redington Sr.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1989.016.522.17.TIF
Remodeling the Anchorage Hotel, exterior.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.222
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.TV.094.354.2B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1125.5
Nome, Alaska (CAA Airfields Surveys, copied Apr. 7, 1941) [aerial, with markings. copy neg]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2024.004.03
March 8, 1964. Junior Girls 220 final. Left to right: Gretchen Weeks, Janie Whitmore, Nancy Byers, Marian Cyril, Mr. Huff [Students with numbered race bibs choosing paper slips from a hat]
Keywords: Speed skating, Junior high school, Athletes, Students, Sports, Winter sports, Gretchen Weeks, Janie Whitmore, Nancy Byers, Marian Cyril, Races and racing, Racers, Race bibs, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Black people, African Americans, Huff
Collection: B2024.004 Maudie Pemberton Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.144a
(Anchorage Schools, West Hi)(Jan 1965)(West High during reconstruction)
Keywords: school, construction, cars
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B1990.014.5.People.13.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 13
B1990.014.5.People.14.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.2018.1.55.001
22-2 Pat outdoors [Pat Thomas eating at right with two other people, possibly making campfire; August 1939, likely near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2018.023.018b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide] [from verso of print photograph: “Broadway, Ruby, Alaska. A typical mining camp business street”] [street view of Ruby; mud street, firewood at right; wood boardwalks, cabins; structures; men walking along boardwalk, street; automobile; possible horse cart; businesses: L'aundry; Ruby Bakery and Cafe; A. Haarvei Outfitter & Grocer; possible Music Store; Post Office; The Senate; Baths; Dentist; banners hung over street; flagpoles and flags; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2006.023.5321
[Groundbreaking for Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.149
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B1997.019.25full
The inside of the bone is covered with a coarse fibre used to strain the food usually only the tiniest jelly fish. The spouting of the whale is only moisture from the lungs &
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B2021.010.105
[1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection
B2023.003.1
N1271, 1, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [street view of a town, likely Nome]
Keywords: Alaska, Nome, Street, Cars, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
B1995.014.69.14
[scenic of broad river valley, trees in foreground, mountains in distance, probably Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2145.13
13 (American Legion Banquet at the Idle Hour Country Club, Anchorage) [interior with people at tables]
Keywords: military, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.1.233
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1989.016.2146.27
#27 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [military unit marching past federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.2
JC Penny's building after the quake showing structural damage and crane on site beginnng demolition or repair
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B2016.005.026
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
