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B1998.014.1.385
(B98 Seward Sanatorium) [Image is different from .384; may not be sanatorium; I.O.O.F. (International Order of Oddfellows) buliding, Andrews Army Surplus Store]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.65.12
[soldiers stopped on ascent, two consulting map, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.P.27.65.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P27
B1998.014.1.527
"D27 Teammates, those 2 huskies" [flipped version of .524, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1954.1
(Anchorage High School Auditorium Fire, March 1953)[A very blurry photograph of firemen on the scene of fire]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.6.40
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 6
B90.14.5.EQ.6.2
Earthquake-Anchorage Sand and Gravel September 10, 1964 Anchorage Sand and Gravel
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_6
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.6
(Sep 20 1956 city view school (Airport Heights)
Keywords: school, education, anchorage
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B1990.014.2018.1.309.006
91-1 April 1943; Pan X; Nome [woman with one child on back and two other children poses on street; structures and snow in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.22.002
5-6 Plane on water [float plane taxiing on water; high-wing, single-engine; Ketchikan, 1939?; mountains and clouds in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Pol.01.58.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Pol
B1979.002.Album1.277
R17-7. Mike Sullivan's cabin, Portage Glacier. R. J. Weir ["Portage Glacier" crossed out in pencil. Distant view of homestead at base of glacier, log cabin and tent at right, second cabin at left, rowboat on gravel bar in center, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, houses, residences
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2035.9
(Monument, Anchorage-Palmer Highway) [man wearing three-piece suit and fedora with three women, presumably from the Daughters of the American Revolution, standing next to stone marker]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.6617.jpg
[Burled arch, Front Street, Nome, finish line of the Iditarod Race]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2023.007.08
[“Wait, Let Me Finish Putting on my Armor” – A Performance Art Piece - May 2, 2008. Person taking a photograph of Warden posed between two people]
Keywords: Aisa Warden, Allison Akootchook Warden, Artists, Performances, Performance Arts, Indigenous, BIPOC, Inupiaq
Collection: B2023.007 Warden Collection
B1998.014.1.343
(B71 Tok Junction; U.S. Customs, Alaska Highway) [log structure, gravel road, automobile, gate]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1105
O2 Alaskan garb (1946 postcard) [person posed stanidng in snow wearing fur parka, fur mittens, pants, mukluks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2185
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, Federal crusade treatment center; 5 children around table" [boy with leg braces and crutches leans on table; spoons, possibly cake, likely 1963; see .2191]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
TV.202.5.6a
(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
B2013.071
Panoramic photograph of downtown Anchorage looking north towards the Chugach Mountains. Photo no 2921581 of the National Photo and News Service.
Keywords: urban, cars, buildings, powerlines, telephone poles, streets, street lights, signs, hospital
Collection: B2013.071
B1973.079.54
[a barge with people and supplies on board][lightering at the mouth of Nome River on Norton Sound][negative is dark and in poor condition]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1989.016.2145.6
6 (American Legion Banquet at the Idle Hour Country Club, Anchorage) [interior with people at tables, head table in front of fireplace]
Keywords: military, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.025.822
[International bucket truck, or cherry picker, suspended from crane, Port of Anchorage]
Collection: B2015.025
B1989.016.2080.30
(Sportscar Race, Fur Rendezvous, Anchorage, 1963)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.09.16
Port of Anchorage after the earth quake 1964.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_9
B1998.014.1.1539
S95 (Fort Richardson Highway sign, 1946 postcard) [U.S. Army Alaska, polar bear with star design, brick, winter image, snow, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.171
B3 Anchorage City Hall, shot during "7" war loan [1945, war bonds]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.1.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
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