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B2023.009.208
Ironworker [man in hard hat looking at camera]
Keywords: Alaska, Anchorage, Construction, Huffman Road, Huffman Bridge, Overpass, Ironworkers, Beam, Heavy equipment, Hard hart
Collection: B2023.009 Johnny R. Irons Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.1.114
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1990.014.5.AKNative.15.7.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1970.019.709
[Man in snowy field, log buildings behind, one with sign for Carlson's?] 2.75 x 4.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.21.20
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.72
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.71
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1990.014.5.ConConv.16.23A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.2018.1.259.002
80-2; Barbara Enge [portrait; May 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.2320
"Hand in Concrete 'Left y Windham at lab Sep 5, 1945. Found in his pile of junk'" [similar to .2317]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.TV.020.27.1.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.AKNative.16.40.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.141
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2017.024.3042
July 1983, aerials, villages [view of man next to logs and cut firewood, pickup trucks, structures, likely greenhouse, water, pond]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.72
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: building exterior
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.004.pollution.jun91p2.29
Pollution at Point Spencer, Port Clarence, Bering Sea, near the Eskimo village of Teller [Marsden matting debris from World War II airstrip. Print date Jun 91 P02 no. 29]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1998.014.1.103
A42 Mt sheep, sheep at McKinley Nat'l Park (3 negs w/captions0 [7 sheep]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.43
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2013.075.509
1967-68 [Koliganek? young girl standing in doorway of house]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B2013.075
B1990.014.5.P.28.5.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P28
B2005.006.2
Little Diomede: Reading, writing and arithmetic are taught in the Government school; but bringing in the game from the Polar Pack and skin sewing is still more important than schooling to the future existence of these young citizens on Diomede Island. Oct. 30, 1950. Photo credit: Audrey and Frank Morgan.
Collection: B2005.006
B1990.014.2018.1.8.004
Officer in rigging [aboard ship; 1939?; overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018