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B1989.020.125
Anchorage - 1949 July 4, 1949 Anchorage - 4th Ave
Collection: B1989.020 Johns Collection
B1990.014.5.Sports.1.8
June 17, 1967 7186 Kids Mob the Ump Little League Baseball at Ketchikan 30
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Sports
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.207
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1733.1
[brown bear. copy neg]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.157
Scn 10 3476 53 Portage Glacier 10 October 1953. [aerial view of glacier face and surface, mountains, calved ice in lower left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2006.023.7406.jpg
[Fishing boats Glacier Bear, Miss Unalakleet, Arctic Wolf, and Big Kyak]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 7000-7999
B1989.016.384.1
Testing skis at Star Airlines [airplane skis on testing device]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.18.16.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_18
B2015.014.90
Frida [Alaska Native man and two women wearing fancy fur parkas with geometric decoration standing outside log cabin in winter, man with mustache wearing fur hat, parka with fur on the inside, and Athapascan-style mittens, metal wash basin on wall at left above wood pile. Paper with Kodak Velox Paper stamp.]
Collection: B2015.014
B1990.014.2018.1.68.002
25-3; Diver [person on dock or pier wearing diving suit and helmet; man with likely the breathing tube; spectators in foreground; wood box; Ketchikan, likely Ketchikan 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.28.14
F-E Co. 1942 [miner emptying bucket of gravel on rock pile, Fairbanks Exploration Co.]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2035.2
(Monument, Anchorage-Palmer Highway) [stone marker with metal plaque, "This tablet is erected by the Alaska Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to commemorate the opening of the Anchorage-Matanuska Highway, 1935"]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.WaterworthJack.1
(Walterworth Jack Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.292
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2123.7
(Catholic Church, Mountain View, 4-2-58) [exterior of church under construction]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.16.24
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.450.19
Willow Creek District. #28, Hewitt's Photo Shop.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.3382
[Clarissa and Phyllis McCutcheon walking in village past houses]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.ReileyJB.1
(Reilly JB Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.99.26
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1990.014.5.TV.095.127.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.113
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
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
B1994.009.938
4 [from verso:] Western Electric Co. Photo by M.C. Jung; Date Sep 6 1957 [aerial view; White Alice]
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B2014.019.123
[man boosting woman onto totem, Seward Pole in background, winter, Saxman? Cf..124]
Collection: B2014.019
B2006.023.8121.jpg
[Fish processing plant]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B1990.014.5.Anc.15.362
Port of Anchorage. April 14, 1952. Permanente dock damage. Not used for Parker & Huff. Photographers' number: 3411752
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / ANC 15
B1998.014.1.1480
S50 Inspecting Elmendorf Field, Alaskan moose (two service men, one petting a young moose between structures, snow, possibly ice, tent in background; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.2915
scenic of passage, with pine trees on small islands in middle ground, mountains in background]
Collection: B1995.010
B2022.001.043
Left to right, rear: Eileen Sanchez, Mayfield Evans, Barry Evans, Nafia Evans, Left to right, front: Rosa Parks, M. Ashley Dickerson [Mayfield Evans, Barry Evans, Nafia Evans, with Rosa Parks and M. Ashley Dickerson seated in front] [In Box 2 Oversized]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Eileen Sanchez, Barry Evans, Son, Nafia Evans, Rosa Parks, Activist, M. Ashley Dickerson, Portrait, Group photo
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection