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B1998.014.1.274
B49 Copper Center Roadhouse (interior) [tables, chairs, piano, music books, staircase, spittoon?; note table legs and stairway posts, glass cabinets, postcards]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1780
(T96 Cordova, Main St; 1948) [street scene, people walking on boardwalks, automobiles, storefronts; montains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.02.24
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 2
B1995.014.114.5
Abby Stepanoff, Russian Mission [woman wearing headscarf standing inside drying rack holding salmon]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.138.2
Merry Christmas [Christmas card with Sydney Laurence painting from .138.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.597
(Richardson Highway Freight and freightage-tractors-wagons)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2015.015.07
This was taken on the upper lake trail near the timber line last summer. This hair looks like yours used to. He is 15 yr. here [Robert posed with unidentified boy outdoors, 1942]
Collection: B2015.015
B1995.014.12.9
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [men standing next to holes on ice, pile of fish in background, mountains in distance]
Keywords: ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
ANC.15.221
Port of Anchorage April 11, 1964 Tug & Cairn Pt.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / ANC 15
B2014.028.439
[large instrument on road shoulder, with gauges and hoses; print date Apr 73]
Collection: B2014.028
B2022.001.095
Jamila Evans, with Mayfield Evans and Alaska Governor Tony Knowles at Governor’s Family Picnic, 2002 [Note on front: “Best wishes, Tony Knowles”]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Family, Jamila Evans, Granddaughter, Alaska, Alaskans, Governor, Governor Tony Knowles, Governor Knowles, Tony Knowles, Politician, Governor's Family Picnic, Picnic, Gathering, Signature, Autograph, Teenager, Grandfather, Grandpa
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.3.60
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 3
B2022.002.22
Installation of officers, American Legion Post 34, Anchorage [Cal Williams third from right holding American flag] Handwritten note on back of photograph: Instalation (sic) of officers Chappie James Post 34 American Legion
Keywords: Cal Williams, American Legion
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2009.020.009
{Anchorage Alaska 1988}{4th Avenue Theater interior and details}
Keywords: theater, 4th Avenue, interior, Anchorage
Collection: B2009.020
B1979.002.4884
(Cronin #10)(Lynn Coal Mine Special carrier near Nenana River Bridge 1919)
Keywords: train, transportation, railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B90.14.5.ARR.5.8.46
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 5
B1989.016.358.1
Bill Dalms fishing at Montana Creek, May 5, 1940.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.001.145
Letter and enclosure to E&S Diversified Services from State of Alaska Department of Labor, Administrative Services Division, signed by Holly Stinson, Labor Economist, April 21, 1993
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Letter, Enclosure, E&S Diversified Services, State of Alaska, SOA< Department of Labor, DOL, Administrative Services Division, Holly Stinson
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1979.002.Album1.170
51. Falls in Keystone Canyon. Thomas Riggs Jr. [waterfall as seen from gravel roadbed at base, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2300.4
(Spa in Anchorage, exterior)
Keywords: recreation, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1993.012.61
Nunivak Island Eskimo Women, Pioneer Drug Co.[8 native women in traditional dress on the deck of a ship]
Collection: B1993.012 Lou & Gilbert Adamec Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.4.11.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 4
B1998.014.1.646
E58 Alaskan Native headdress "Klukwan Native" [same as .646, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2008.015.1.22.4
Seward, Alaska [postcard]
Keywords: railroads, transportation
Collection: B2008.015
B1989.016.1146.66
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Sept. 24, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, view down unfinished hallway of postal annex]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.762.7
P-426. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop [aerial]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.477.8
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.6.004
2-1 March 1939 Panatonic x 24-16; Helen [portrait of seated woman holding lit cagarette in right hand]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
