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B1989.016.2141.36
D-49. Eskimo choir. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [group of men and women standing indoors, one woman carrying a baby, woman playing piano at left, woman on rocker holding child on her lap at left]
Keywords: musical instruments, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.013A.s5.014
Paul Charles, Newtok [Identified in 2/28/1978 newsletter as president of Newtok Village corporation; man sitting on wood steps outside structure; window in background; 1977]
Collection: B2000.013A
B1989.016.064.2
Iris and shooting stars at Eklutna. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.4942
"8/8/1919 J. D. McIntyre. Oat field" [sleeve 79; farm field; agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.TV.094.327.14A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.ConConv.02.37
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.AKNative.24.61.24
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.EQ.18.67
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_18
B1990.014.5.AKNative.17.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2125.1
Hewitt's 18 (Early Fur Rendezvous Queens) [two women in fur parkas wearing sashes, Miss Yukon and Miss Dawson]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.530
May 1931. Sawdust pit, after fire. Spruce of 1926 & pines of 1927 on hill [damaged structure in foreground, small trees on hillside in distance. Cf. .1015]
Collection: B2015.008
B1963.019.11
Pack train leaving Anchorage for Turnagain Arm, 1916 [horses with loaded packs. Buildings and wagon in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Anchorage, 1916, 1910s, Supplies, Horses, Pack train, Supplies, Building, Transportation, Alaska Railroad, A.R.R.
Collection: B1963.019 CIHS Barnet
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.183.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1989.016.2187.2
Lomen Bros. Nome #19 [Native woman wearing Western-style skirt and boots and parka with fur trim and geometric decoration, with braided hair and loop earrings, carrying small child on her back in a hide bag]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.Logging.1.6.41
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.10.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.185
Matanuska Colony farm. Hewitt's Photo, 137. [cf. .183]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.16.47
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
b2015.027.117
The bride and groom after the wedding [same image as .9]
Keywords: weddings, religion
Collection: B2015.027
B1990.014.5.AKNative.7.93.2a
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.53.2
[debris from military airplane crash on tundra, water in distance at left, same as crash across Cook Inlet from Anchorage, 1940s, as in .53.5?]
Keywords: aircraft accidents, aviation, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2000.014.782
(782)(Harry Fred Frank Oliv Children Kokrines June 17 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina