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B2016.024.118
Plane, PB-Y, Juneau [Consolidated PBY Catalina airplane on tarmac]
Keywords: Juneau, airplanes
Collection: B2016.024
B2022.005.245
[a white man in military uniform and an Indigenous woman in western clothes standing with a crowd of people behind them]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, military, Alaska
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1435.1
46. Whale hunting. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [whaling boat Aberdeen with several whale carcasses]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.038.201
[Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines hangar at left, airplane on airstrip in center]
Collection: B2009.038
B1989.016.1445.1
[two totem poles in trees, with two girls sitting on large rock with plaque similar to a coin with a likeness. copy neg. same as .1440.2]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1647.10
(Merrill Field in winter) [airplane taking off from snowy runway]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.020.010
[view from City Hall of Log Cabin Visitors Center in summer, grass and wildflowers growing on roof, federal building at right, KENI in background]
Collection: B2017.020
B1990.014.5.StateBattle.2.32
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.StateBattle
B2016.006.2500
[woman preparing meal on propane camp stove on gravel riverbank along creek, automobile in foreground]
Collection: B2016.006
B2017.011.148
Alaska ’48 – Bethel, typical Eskimo cannery worker [Yupik woman wearing headscarf seated outdoors]
Collection: B2017.011
B1989.016.1502.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [McGee Airways Bellanca CH-300 airplane tail number NC874M on ground at Merrill Field in Anchorage in winter, with hangar and automobile in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1624.20
25. (Dedicating the Aurora Train, Alaska Railroad) [man speaking from Kiwanis Club grandstand, with Aurora Train in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.016.223
San Juan's "Viekoda" at trap [fishing boat at commercial fish trap, San Juan Cannery]
Keywords: canneries
Collection: B2014.016
B2015.012.209
Gertrude Smith & Moses [studio portrait of Alaska Native man. Copy neg]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.012
B2017.011.159
Alaska ’47 – Sleitmut, sunset on the Hoholitna River (tributary of Kuskokwim) [scenic, Sleetmute]
Collection: B2017.011
B1983.091.S4193.002
Benny Benson, designer of Alaska flag (2/22/64). Interior, man at table, autographing. [women wearing parka, children, adults]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4193.004
Benny Benson, designer of Alaska flag (2/22/64). Interior, man at table, autographing. [two women, one in parka talk with Benson; Pacific Northern Airlines counter in background; tail of PNA aircraft model at left]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1985.027.2396
Originally in B8 F154. Wien Eskimos. Dancing. 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1985.027.2437
[from verso] Eskimos - hunting; Wien Air Alaska photo by Frank Whaley [two children stand in shallow water holding what is likely a dead seal; shore ice and sea ice in background; one child wears a construction helmet]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1995.014.2.1
Willow and people [two men in brush with debris, airplane accident?]
Keywords: transportation, aircraft accidents, garbage
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.016.1960
Seldovia. Cannery. G146 [Alaska Year-Round Canneries Co.]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B2014.016
B2017.024.2267
Kotzebue, June 1967 [man using ax to chop ice at shore; water, mountains in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.1624.16
21. (Dedicating the Aurora Train, Alaska Railroad) [man speaking from Kiwanis Club grandstand, with Aurora Train in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.9.11
[men in field next to downed airplane, rescue squad?]
Keywords: military, aviation, aircraft accidents
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.9.14
[men riding in tracked vehicle in winter]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.011.133
Alaska ’47 – Juneau, salmon sport fishing craft out of Auke Bay, Hebert Glacier background [scenic]
Collection: B2017.011
B1998.014.1.1618
T25 Juneau, Alaska, Brickley (1948 postcard) [same as .1617; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.237.003
73-1 Sept 1941; Pan X in Dk 20; Sitka [view of town and mountains across water]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.StateBattle.2.33
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.StateBattle
B1983.091.S4179.44
Crane takes a bite out of building nexy to Highland Fling
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4187.188
(5/64) (275 negs) Walrus Island Trip. Walrus at Round Island in Walrus Island Group. (4x5 neg of massed walrus) [walrus on shore and in water]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.1401.3
4th Avenue. Hewitt's, 47 [corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street, with automobiles parked outside Hewitt's Drug Store, Rexall Drugs, Anchorage Hotel, Lois Beauty Salon, and J. Vic Brown & Son, 1940 license plate on car]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.715.1
[American Pilgrim airplane crash landed on beach near Anchorage, Cook Inlet, pilot Harold Gillam]
Keywords: aviation, aircraft accidents
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.715.2
[American Pilgrim airplane crash landed on beach near Anchorage, Cook Inlet, pilot Harold Gillam]
Keywords: aircraft accidents, aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2133.2
(The Big Snow, December 1955) [automobiles buried in snow, with Anchorage Hotel in background, E Street parking lot. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.S4187.217
(5/64) (275 negs) Walrus Island Trip. Walrus at Round Island in Walrus Island Group. (4x5 neg of walrus in the surf) [walrus on rocky shore and in water]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.1095
N6 Anchorage, Alaska (CIty Hall; 1946 postcard) [winter scene, snow, Christmas lights, tree, hoarfrost "Keep off grass" sign]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1401.2
No. 7. Hewitt's Store, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop [Hewitt's Drug Store, corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street, with automobile parked outside. copy neg of 1401.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection