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B2016.019.1.03d.06777.18
Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Main 2100 seat theater [Anchorage - Buildings - Performing Arts Center (PAC)], 1988
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Performing Arts Center, PAC, Theaters
Collection: B2016.019
B1990.014.004.24990
Art Center and Museum at Anchorage Alaska USA Aug 22 1982 24990
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2016.004.34.4
Alaska Native basket makers, 800325 [Belle Deacon weaving basket, Selina Peratrovich at table. Alaska Native Basketry Workshop sponsored by the Visual Arts Center].
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Basket, Basket makers, Weaving, Workshop, Visual Arts Center
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.34.23
Alaska Native basket makers, 800325 [Evelyn Douglas weaving baskets. 35 b&w images. Alaska Native Basketry Workshop sponsored by the Visual Arts Center]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska Native, Basket, Basket makers, Visual Arts Center
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.34.14
Alaska Native basket makers, 800325 [Eunice Neseth weaving while Barbara Bland
looks on. 35 b&w images. Alaska Native Basketry Workshop sponsored by the Visual Arts Center]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska Native, Basket, Basket makers, Visual Arts Center
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.34.10
Alaska Native basket makers, 800325 [Selina Peratrovich at table, Belle Deacon weaving basket, unidentified women weaving baskets. 35 b&w images. Alaska Native Basketry
Workshop sponsored by the Visual Arts Center]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska Native, Basket, Basket makers, Visual Arts Center
Collection: B2016.004
B1989.016.2006.14
Tourist Center Anchorage Alaska Hewitts Drug Photo (Tourist Center, Anchorage (Log Cabin) 1955)
Keywords: cabin, tourism, winter, anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1640
T34 Palmer, Alaska [similar to .1640; automobile in lower center]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1802
"Copper Center" Trading Post, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [Copper Center Roadhouse. copy neg. same as 1689.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1805
Copper Center, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [Copper Center Roadhouse at end of gravel road, mountains in distance. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.038.201
[Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines hangar at left, airplane on airstrip in center]
Collection: B2009.038
B1962.001A.150
Copper Center, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E110 [Men and horses along row of buildings. Tl'aticae'e (Copper Center), Ahtna region]
Keywords: Tl'aticae'e, Copper Center, Ahtna region, Ahtna, Territory, Men, Horse, Animals, Transportation, Log Building, Log cabin, Building, Cabin, Landscape, Mountain, Range, Community
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B2016.019.3.16.AKCities.Portage
Visitor Views Portage Lake From Inside Visitor Center [Alaska Cities - Portage - Begich-Boggs Visitor Center], c. 2000
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Cities, Portage, Begich-Boggs Visitor Center, Portage Lake
Collection: B2016.019
B1962.001A.149
Angora goats, Copper Center, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, P15 [C.C.M. & T. Co.] [Ahtna Territory. Tl'aticae's (Copper Center)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Territory, Tl'aticae'e, Copper Center, P.S. Hunt, Alaska, Alaskan, Angora goats, Goat, Animals, Livestock, C. C. M. & T. Co., Dog House, Log Buildings, Buildings, Cabins, People, Men, Winter, Snow
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.1970
Anchorage Alaska, Hewitts Photo (Hollywood Center, shopping)(89 degrees!!!) [Hollywood Shopping Center sign and temperture guage registering 89 degrees]
Keywords: sign, hot weather, shop
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2001.041.186
Williams, Thompson and Vogel Linda Claim Center Creek Nome Alaska {family on a dredge}
Keywords: mining
Collection: B2001.041 Goetze
B1962.001A.123
Mount Drum and Copper Center, Alaska, looking down Klutena River. P.S. Hunt, E91 [Klutina River] [Tl'aticae'e (Copper Center). Ahtna region.]
Keywords: Ahtna region, Ahtna, Territory, Tl'aticae'e, Copper Center, Mount Drum, Mountain, Range, Klutina River, River
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B2014.013.17
Knik, Alaska. O.G.H. [bird's eye view of Knik, flag in center, two horses center foreground, Knik Trading Co. at right, Knik Roadhouse in background]
Keywords: businesses, residences, animals
Collection: B2014.013
B2009.061.115
Blix's Copper Center Roadhouse. Ed S. Orr Stage Co. Alaska Commercial Co.
Collection: B2009.061
B2014.012.34
Winter at Nushagak, Alaska [ice chunks in foreground, Mittendorff store in center, church on bluff at right]
Keywords: businesses, churches, religion
Collection: B2014.012
B1972.046.29
Eagle, Alaska, Fort Egbert per Bruce Merrell, 2013, Ft. Egbert mule barn in center
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B1962.001A.147
[Indigenous Alaskans], Willow Creek, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E1031 [verso:] Copper Center people. Stako? Ewan and wife? [Ahtena Indians] [Ahtna Territory. Tl'aticae'e (Copper Center)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Territory, Tl'aticae'e, Copper Center, Indigenous, BIPOC, P.S. Hunt, Alaska, Alaskan, Willow Vreek, Family, Stako, Ewan, Wife, Women, Man, Camp, Tent, Gear, Child, Children
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1998.014.1.2015
Seward, Alaska "T231 aerial" [copy neg composit image possibly taken from mountain, looking over city with Adams Street in the center; steeple in bottom center of image, docks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1978.065.20
Hotel Holman P.S. Hunt G769 V.T. Co's Stage Leaving Copper Center, Alaska, May 17, 1906
Collection: B1978.065
B1998.014.1.1997
Anchorage, Alaska city center "T220 Anchorage, air views" [aerial view looking northwest of Park Strip]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2192
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, Federal crusade treatment center; 3 children and adult' [likely 1963; similar to .2187]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.411
B118 buckner building at port of Whittier, Alaska [person walking near center of image (blurred), mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.689
F17 Ketchikan. Fishing center of Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan "1949 postcard" [copy neg, same as .688]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.011.179
Alaska ’47 – Early morning view of Mt. Drum (Wrangell Range) from highway south of Copper Center [scenic overlooking river valley. Removed from broken mount] [Tl'aticae'e (Copper Center).]
Keywords: Tl'aticae'e, Copper Center, Mount Drum, Mt. Drum, Wrangell Range, Mountain, Range, Highway, Scenic, Overlook, View, River, Valley
Collection: B2017.011
B1990.014.2018.1.7.003
Seattle skyline [view from water; Pier 2, Alaska Steamship Co. dock near center; image is overexposed; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.7.003
Seattle skyline [view from water; Pier 2, Alaska Steamship Co. dock near center; image is overexposed; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1909
T164 Palmer, Alaska (co-op section) [structures, homes, automobiles, watertower, path through field or lawn in center of image]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.969
L115 Teslin Lake, Yukon Territory, Alaska Hiway (mile 804) [similar to .968. trestle bridge at right center of image]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.007.40
[three young women posed next to wooden building in summer, all wearing Western style dresses, woman in center Alaska Native]
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.1746.1
(Alaska Native Medical Center being built, Aug. 1951) [Alaska Native Service hospital construction, with one building largely completed and two with scaffolding, Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1746.2
(Alaska Native Medical Center being built, Aug. 1951) [Alaska Native Service hospital construction, with one building largely completed and two with scaffolding, Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1746.3
(Alaska Native Medical Center being built, Aug. 1951) [Alaska Native Service hospital construction, with one building largely completed and two with scaffolding, Chugach Mountains in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.4560
[waterfront as seen from ship, ferry dock in center, lifebuoy of Alaska Marine Highway ferry Malaspina in foreground; print date Sep 68]
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.029.2928
[Native American dance group processing onto lawn next to Atwood Center, Alaska Methodist University, Native Spirit Festival; print date Jun 84] [Woman in red kerchief near left-center possibly Rosie David from Minto, identified in .2984. Possibly Tanana group. Alaska Methodist University now Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage]
Keywords: Native Spirit Festival, Native Dance Group, Indigenous Dance Group, Alaskan Native Dance Group, Regalia, Dance regalia, Beaded regalia, Atwood Center, Alaska Methodist University, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Kay McFarland Jackson, Kay McFarland, Kathryn McFarland, Kathryn McFarland Jackson
Collection: B2017.029
B1974.040.117
Canneries. Like a Syd. Lawrence scene -- abandoned small cannery just south of town at Seward in 1937 -- below present site of Alaska U. Research Center.
Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection
B1992.003.004
Ahtna Alaska Natives, Copper Center [Family of men, women, children pose on porch of log cabin; dog at right; broom, shovel, bucket]
Collection: B1992.003
B1995.010.1798
[Alaska Steamship Co. steamship Denali approaching dock, sign for Standard Oil in center, small boats at anchor at left, mountains in background, Sitka?]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.2194
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, Federal crusade treatment center; 2 children" [boy with crutches touches what is likely a cake while girl watches; likely April 1963]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2195
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, Federal crusade treatment center; 2 children" [boy with crutches points at cake while girl looks on; likely April 1963]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2196
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, Federal crusade treatment center; 5 children around table" [possibly cake on table; spoons; likely April 1963]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2197
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, Federal crusade treatment center; 2 children" [ oy with crutches standing; girl seated; likely April 1963]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2198
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, Federal crusade treatment center; 2 children" [boy with crutches and girl touch what appears to be a cake; likely April 1963]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.632
E50 House party at Diomede Island, Alaska, Frank Morgan photo [three women perform dance moves while seated on shelves in corner of room, possibly a kitchen; skin drums in foreground, man in lower right, bowls, pans on lower shelf, bottles, cans on upper shelf, possibly a snowshoe in upper center of image; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2031
T247 City's center, Anchorage, Alaska [bird's eye view looking east down 4th Avenue; log cabin visitor center at lower right; city hall; businesses; people walking; automobiles; McKinley Building in background; Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley