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B1998.014.1.1175
O36 Enroute to Alaska {1946 postcard (3 birds on ship railing)} [copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.366.3
#150. Children of the valley, Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [sitting on wooden rail next to Alaska Railroad car]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album15.Loop.Winter
"The Loop" Alaska RR-Mile 52- 3 miles by rail - 1/2 mile the way Crows fly - Alaska Shop
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2019.007.538
May 16, 1991; photographer number 00353.013.12-7; Alaskan Native Yupik Eskimo children/ Togiak, Alaska [four children at railing of boardwalk; road, automobiles, and structures in the background]
Collection: B2019.007
B1998.014.1.1176
{O36 Enroute to Alaska; 1946 postcard (3 birds on ship railing)} [copy neg; same as .1176]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2143.27
50. Express Office, Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Alaska [repurposed rail car set next to Alaska Railroad tracks at Palmer, with sign "Railway Express Agency"]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1597
[bird's eye view of Alaska Railroad headquarters and depot under construction at Anchorage, with rail yards and Government Hill in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.808
L40 Enroute to Alaska (via ship, 1946 postcard) [water, mountains, snow, ship rails in foreground, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.264
3.12. 9/30/25. Golden, Port Wells, Alaska. Steve A. Roe, only inhabitant [portrait of man
wearing suspenders, leaning against railing]
Keywords: portrait, man, prince william sound
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.264a
3.12. 9/30/25. Golden, Port Wells, Alaska. Steve A. Roe, only inhabitant [portrait of man
wearing suspenders, leaning against railing]
Keywords: portrait, prince william sound
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.219
4 3 Alaska RR Snow guage 16' high
Keywords: Alaska Rail Road, Chugach
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.207
J12 82525 Wide Bay SW Alaska_Good bye to oil and the Alaska Peninsula{man leaning on the rail of a ship looking out at a bay and mountains
Keywords: ship, transportation
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.218
4 2 82825 Alaska RR 4 levels of tracks at Bartlett Glacier
Keywords: Alaska Rail Road, glacier, Bartlett Glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1198
O48 SS Aleutian enroute to Alaska [copy neg; men and women looking over ship rails, lifeboats New York and Aleutian on upper deck, smokestack, smoke]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1758
T78 Canadian Ship at Ketchikan (HMS Prince George, Ketchikan, Alaska) [view of bow as ship approaches, passengers at deck railings, men, women, children, life boats, anchor]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2016
T232 "Too humble for comfort" Alaska Housing "Anchorage (Be it never this humble, there's no place like this home)" [winter scene of rail car covered in snow; possibly skis leaning near door?]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.004.38091
ARR Portage rail depot was wrecked earthquake of '64, sank 4 ft., loaded cars in ice. 05-10-64. Photographer's number 38091 [Alaska Railroad cars, aerial]
Keywords: transportation, earthquake, railroads
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2143.43
85. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Steam shovel at Palmer) [steam shovel dropping gravel through screen into open rail car, piping on ground in foreground, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1759
(T79 Ketchikan, alaska, steamship "Alaska" at Ketchikan) [ship at dock; men wearing caps at rail near bow, automobiles on deck, cargo gear, waterfront structures including Hotel Ingersoll, Ketchikan cold Storage, men in foreground, likely on another ship; structures, including homes, in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1974.040.006
Unloading cargo from U.S. Army transports and Alaska SS vessels, Alaska Railroad dock at Seward, 1940. Robert Liese (later became CAA communicator) and Quartermaster Corps civilian cargo inspector, summer of 1940 [two men standing with wooden barrels and piled supplies in front of flatbed rail cars loaded with heavy equipment, ship visible in background left]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection
B2015.008.220
4 4 82825 Anchorage, Alaska_ Govt R R shops and offices in distance
Keywords: Anchorage, Alaska Rail Road
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1642
T35 Brickley, Anchorage - Alaska (4th Ave. 1948 postcard 300 - 3 1 print; 2 negs) [street scene looking west from center of gravel street with puddles; people walking, automobiles, businesses: City Hotel, with Coca Cola advertisement, Mike’s Cocktail Bar, Matanuska Valley Bus Line Depot, North Star Liquor Store, Hotel Travler, Brass Rail Bar and Café, Machine Shop Gunsmithing, Lunch Room, Cleaners, Hotel Lane, Café, Pay ‘n Takit Meats Groceries, The Village Bar, Anchorage Checker Cab, Custom Leather Shop, Big Dipper, Anchorage Dairy, Liquor store, Union Steam Bath & Rooms, New York Sandwich Shop, Bar and Café, Schodde’s, Quality Grocery & Market Delicatessen, Grasser’s Hardware, Bus Terminal; Possibly unfinished 4th Avenue Theatre under construction in left distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley