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B1989.016.703
Federal Court House, Anchorage, Alaska. Bragaw's [original building on Fourth Avenue, circa 1920s]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.023.073
United States Post Office and court House, Sitka, Alaska [building, automobiles, people, bicycle]
Collection: B2017.023
B2017.024.2709
Nome July 1983 Street scenes [man and two women at entrance to post office and court house]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2208.16
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [room with table, chairs, sideboard, window with blinds]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.21
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [living room, with piano, easy chairs, ottoman]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.22
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [room with draped closet, table, patterned wallpaper]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.9
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [living room, with piano, easy chairs, ottoman]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.10
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [room with chair, side table, bureau, curtained window]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.3
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [bedroom with bed, side table, mirror, bare bulb]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.5
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [mostly empty room with curtained window, small table]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.7
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [living room, with small desk, chairs, side tables]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.8
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [kitchen with table, chairs, stove, door, curtained window]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.14
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [room with table, chairs, window with blinds, bags of Leslie Salt]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.15
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [bedroom with bed, chair, table, lamp, bureau, curtained window]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.17
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [bedroom with bed, chair, table, lamp, bureau, curtained window]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.6
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [room with table, cupboard, window with blinds, bags of Leslie Salt]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.19
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [bedroom with bed, chair, chifforobe, table holding small animal cage]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.25
(Emard's House, exterior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [side view of building, with Anchorage Hotel across street, two dumpsters in foreground]
Keywords: houses, residences, businesses, garbage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.4
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [kitchen with table, chairs, pantry shelves, doors to dumb waiter or chute]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.23
(Emard's House, exterior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [automobile parked on street, signs for Cheechako Rear Entrance and Bernice's Cafe at right]
Keywords: houses, residences, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.12
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [room with chair, tables door, possibly heater in upper left corner, patterned wallpaper]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.2
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [small room with bare bulb in ceiling, hair dryer, mirror, trophy, and other household goods]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.24
(Emard's House, exterior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [automobiles parked on street and in lot at right, One Way street sign and fire hydrant]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.11
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [living room, with couch, tables, lamp, folded room screen propped at left, curtained window]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.13
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [bedroom with bed, chair, mirrored dressing table, small table holding telephone, liquor bottle, and radio]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.20
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [small room with desk, chairs, map of Kenai-Homer area on wall, bookshelves, view down hallway]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.18
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [bedroom with bed, chair, bureau, lamp, clothes and book "Caricature: the wit and humor of a nation in picture, song, and story" lying on bed]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.239
[Indigenous Alaskan woman in fur parka standing outside United States Post Office and Court House building in Nome, Alaska. Man standing near doorway. Inupiaq territory.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Inupiaq, Territory, Inupiat, Woman, Parka, Fur, Geometric pattern, Design, Gloves, Mukluks, Outerwear, Clothing, Footwear, Winter, Snow, Pathway, Man, Door, Doorway, Entrance, Building, Structure, USPS, U.S.P.S., Post Office, Postal Service, Court House, Federal building, Government
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.238
[Indigenous Alaskan woman (likely Elva "Willie" Amidon) in parka standing outside United States Post Office and Court House building in Nome, Alaska. Men standing near doorway. Inupiaq territory.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Inupiaq, Territory, Inupiat, Woman, Parka, Fur, Geometric pattern, Design, Gloves, Mukluks, Outerwear, Clothing, Footwear, Winter, Snow, Pathway, Man, Men, Door, Doorway, Entrance, Building, Structure, USPS, U.S.P.S., Post Office, Postal Service, Court House, Federal building, Government, Elva Amidon, Elva "Willie" Amidon, Willie Amidon
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2208.1
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [small room with desk, three chairs, maps of Cook Inlet on wall, key rack, patterned wallpaper]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1975.127.006
Court House (Wrangel) [sic: Wrangell], HNT.13[?].94 [two-story plank-sided structure with "Court Room" sign at door; possibly upturned sofa on porch, bell on upstairs porch, rain barrel at right, external stairway at left; boy wearing sailor suit at far right next to plank walkway, killer whale totem at left foreground; firewood at left background, brick chimneys, log structure in right background is the Russian block house; fence]
Collection: B1975.127 Wrangell
B1981.020.144
Sitka, Alaska No. A113, The Photo Shop Studio [United States Post Office and Court House building; poured-concrete structure with geometric ornamentation; flag atop roof; seawall and utility lines in foreground; structure with brick chimney in background]
Collection: B1981.020 Hotchkiss
B1998.014.1.406
B116 Anchorage, Alaska "Federal Building" [United States Post Office and Court House; pedestrians; people sitting in cars; automobiles parked at meters; Dodge pickup truck "J.S. Ramstad Construction Co. Inc.," Northwest Airlines sign; Lounge sign in midground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley