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B1990.014.5.StateBattle.2.29
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.StateBattle
B2014.023.191
(Fairbanks Scenics)[photograph of mountainous landscape]
Keywords: mountains, glaciers, river
Collection: B2014.023
B1989.016.1218
View on Alaska Railroad. Hewitt's, 66 [winter scene of river valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1626.10
(Dog Show, Nov. 28, 1948) [dog on wooden bench in kennel enclosure]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2073.16
(Anchorage Houses, Nov. 1964, 12th and S Street) [single level home, winter, with fence along street, street signs]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1903.4
(Alaska dairy farmhouse) [cow in front of wood frame house, Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: agriculture, animal husbandry, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.125.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1998.014.1.726.bw
Greetings from Alaska; Merry Christmas "H10 (tree-insert missing) [greeting card template, snow-covered trees, mountains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1994.022.393Z.14
(airplanes- Lockheed Altair NR12283 Will Rogers)[Will Rogers standing infront of plane]
Keywords: airplane
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1984.077.16.027
[man removing kuspuk, wearing mukluks, shoes on porch step, door, porch, flowers on porch]
Collection: B1984.077
B1990.014.2018.1.33.004
14-2 home [man wearing suit and carrying hat walking down steps outside structure, domicile; picket fences; yard; Ketchikan, 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.P.27.47.25
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P27
B1990.014.5.People.14.122
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.2018.1.303.001
90-1; April 1943; Pan X; Nome [view of structure with snow, icicles]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.321.2
Anchorage from Cook Inlet [line of fishing dories being pulled in foreground]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.393Z.10
(Airplanes)[airplane landing on snow field]
Keywords: airplane
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.921
(Richardson Highway-construction camps)
Keywords: transportation, construction
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.49
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B2015.008.021
(From station P, NE of College Point)(9_17_14)(10:30am)(Barnard, Wellesley and Vassar Glacier)
Keywords: Prince William Sound, Glaciers, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1869.3
Foto by Cameron (Anchorage Air Transport Travelair 4000 C193, circa 1927, with load of furs) [airplane marked A.A.T. C193 Anchorage No. 2, with loaded bundles and skis on snow at night. copy neg]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.52B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.97
(Anchorage Schools Wendler Jr HI)(5 Oct 1962)(13299)(AJ Wendler School and kids)
Keywords: education, school, students
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B1989.016.2411
The Arctic Highway. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, #8 [trees in frost]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1957.005.181
Eagle River bridge mile 127 1/2. A.E.C. R[ailwa]y. AEC H56 HGK. Verso: WWI 1917-1918 [looking across bridge, with man wearing mosquito netting on bridge, workmen below]
Keywords: AEC, A.E.C., Alaskan Engineering Commission, Alaska Railroad, Railroad, Railway, Eagle River, River, Bridge, Mile 127, WWI, Man, Mosquito net, Workmen, Workers, Crew
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd
B2017.024.3606
May 1969 [three people in umiak; man at left is either removing or putting on a parka; water and ice background] slide #6613
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.014.31.15
[view down dirt road through flat area, possibly mining road?]
Keywords: roads, construction
Collection: B1995.014
B2022.005.247
[one woman in a western style coat facing the camera. One man is looking at the camera from behind her. There are packs or cargo against the side of the building in the background] [At AFN 2024, identified as possibly Sophie Tungwenuk in likely Nome]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Sophie Tungwenuk, Nome
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
