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B1990.014.4.scn.5.StonyDome.Jul72P3
[Denali views from Stony Dome, north east; tundra, snow in foreground, likely late spring]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_4_scn_5
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.16
4th Ave East to show blocks lost in EQ after demolition
Keywords: cars, demolition, pedestrians, power lines, street lights, street signs, streets
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B2005.013.453
Hooper Bay, July 1951 [young Alaska Native woman wearing print dress, plaid jacket, and headscarf, holding baby, posed outdoors, drying racks, buildings, and wind generators in background]
Collection: B2005.013
B2005.017.030
(looking east down 4th from corner of G and 4th May 1988)
Keywords: 4th ave, theater, tourism, anchorage
Collection: B2005.017
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.18.1
4th St. D to C
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B2005.017.027
(looking west from corner of 4th and F ( May 1988)
Keywords: 4th ave, theater, tourism, anchorage
Collection: B2005.017
B1965.002.16
Russ Merrill for whom Merrill field is named Aeronautics-Anchorage
Collection: B1965.002 CIHS Bowden-Liston
B1990.014.5.EQ.15.9
Reconstruction West High School 4.5 million cost
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_15
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.47
Damaged store front of the Northern Commercial Company
Keywords: tower, street lights, cars, damaged buildings
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.18
Denali Theater demolition after 3/27/64 quake.
Keywords: damaged buildings, demolition, debris, houses, construction workers, crane, construction
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.21
4th Ave clean up from 3/27/64
Keywords: construction, damaged buildings, demolition, crane
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.98
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
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.133.2
(catastrophe)(June 23 1965)(Standard Oil Fire Ocean Dock Road )(Historical)
Keywords: fire, accident
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1994.008.351.crop
Juneau 1979 Co-chm. [man and Esther Wunnicke sitting at table during meeting]
Collection: B1994.008
B2012.030.1149
(Horseshoe Lake Mt McKinley in background View from E shore, Oct 16 1956){surveying crew on site}
Keywords: survey, surveyor
Collection: B2012.030
B2013.010.836
Aeronca [airplane NC23928 after windstorm, Merrill Field, 1945]
Keywords: aviation, weather
Collection: B2013.010
B1989.016.1974
"Schooner Bend" Bridge, Kenai River Hewitts Drug Store ("Schooner Bend" Bridge, Kenai River)
Keywords: covered bridge, river, bridge, transportation, Cooper Landing, Kenai
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1955.2
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Anchorage, 4th Ave April 16, 1953) [View down 4th Ave looking NE towards the Chugach Mtns.
Keywords: street lights, street signs, streets, cars, buildings
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1955.3
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Anchorage, 4th Ave April 16, 1953) [View down 4th Ave looking NE towards the Chugach Mtns.
Keywords: mountains, cars, buildings, streets, street signs, street lights, power lines, pedestrians
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.18.2
Aerial view of 4th Ave Earthquake damage showing the C St slump
Keywords: aerial, anchorage, buildings, cars, destruction
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.45
North side of 4th Ave between C&D showing collapsed street and buildings
Keywords: damaged streets, damaged buildings, destroyed buildings, street lights, pedsestrians, power lines, collapsed buildings, cars
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.51
Earthquake damage of 3/27/64 - 4th & B St. Lower floor Bagoy's Flowers, Upper Oil Comapny office.
Keywords: damaged buildings, damaged streets, demolition, collapsed buildings, crane
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.1
anchorage buisness district demolition
Keywords: aerial, buildings, damaged buildings, streets, cars
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.31
Borden of Pure Oil Co. leaving office.
Keywords: pedestrians, cars, street signs, buildings, power lines
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.4
Matanuska Valley Bank Earthquake Branch.
Keywords: people, mobile homes
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.4.21407
(Wasilla Alaska near the proposed new capital of the state){aerial view of Wasilla}
Keywords: Wasilla Alaska, aerial
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.4.23885
VIP Group Enjoy Snow Machine Outing in Chugach Nat'l Forest Near Alyeska Resort [Feb 1974 print date]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.4.Animals.25.37642
Adult & Sub Adult Male Fur Seal Callorhinus Alascanus St. Paul Village Pribilof Isl.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.19
Aerial view of Turnagain #2 center Earthquakeslide of 27 March 1964, 5 dead 80 homes destroyed.
Keywords: aerial, homes, subdivisions, damage
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.63
McKinley Building earthquake fracturing through out building facade.
Keywords: damaged building
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.97
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, micro bus
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1989.016.1955.1
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Anchorage, 4th Ave April 16, 1953) [View down 4th Ave looking NE towards the Chugach Mtns.
Keywords: streets, cars, street lights, street signs, pedestrians, power lines
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.996
No. 41. Homesteader's cabin. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [log cabin with sod roof, Matanuska Valley?]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.4.scn.5.StonyDomeView
{Mt McKinley (L) Pk 20,326 (R) 20,000. Muldrow Glacier descends between ridges, north east view} [Denali; mountain, park road at lower right tundra in foreground, cloudles day; image likely taken from Stony Dome, late summer]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_4_scn_5
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.2
McLains Camera Shop damaged by earthquake
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.12
Denali Theater demolition after 3/27/64 quake.
Keywords: demolition, damaged buildings, crane
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1998.014.1.1470
{S46 Ft Richardson (Elmendorf Field) Main Gate, war time} [Bus 411, licencse FH876 leaving base, soldiers, MP at gatehouse; automobile at far right; signs "dim your lights" and All cars pull in close to station" "stop" structures, mountains in distance.
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1471
S46 Main Gate, Elmendorf Field, Alaska (Fort Richardson; main gate, war time) [similar to .1470; automobile, taxicab (illegible) ter Post Cab, MPs at guard post; pipe sections, watertower, structures in background, footbridge in left foreground; neg has been modified to remove name from guard shack.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1918
(T167 Anchorage, 4th Ave from McKinley Bldg, May 1953) [similar to .1915]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.002.05
[Fur Rondy parade marching down 4th Ave in front of Vans Sporting Goods Store]
Collection: B2015.002
B2015.002.06
[Fur Rondy parade marching down 4th Ave in front of the Federal Building]
Collection: B2015.002
B2015.002.07
[Fur Rondy parade member International Ski Area marching down 4th Ave]
Collection: B2015.002
B2015.002.08
[Fur Rondy parade member Alaska Native Brotherhood marching down 4th Ave in front of the Federal Building]
Collection: B2015.002