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B1989.016.406.3
Food Center [Anchorage Fourth Avenue with Seidenverg's]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.406.1
Food Center [Anchorage Fourth Avenue with The Gitchell, Seidenverg's]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus.29.26
Carr's Food Center 13th and Gambell 1st anniversary Hawaiian Sale 9/18/53
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus
B2017.024.3366
"New type Arctic food freezer plant" June 1971 [Interior view of structure; worker in center of structure]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2317.5
(Hollywood Shopping Center, Anchor Bowling Alley, Ed Suddach, interior) [cafeteria area]
Keywords: recreation, food
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.434
B134 Fairview business section, Anchorage, Alaska [14th Avenue, Carrs Food Center, Eastchester Drugs, Variety, Hardware store, parking lot, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1409
S17 Mess Kit Cafe' (1946 postcard) [copy neg; service men line up for food; chow line; canvas top truck, canteens, smoke or steam near center of image; structure in distance, cooking pots at left center]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1983.091.C800.1
Bailey Covey for Hills Bros. Coffee at Carrs Food Center, 14th and Gambell. Jim Tapscott, Larry Carr, Bailey Covey. 11-10-1953 (2 negs)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1989.016.208.2
Anchorage street scene, 4th Avenue [winter, looking east,Hotel Gitchell, H. Seidenverg, Food Center, Ship Creek Meat Co., J. Vic Brown, Rexall Drugs]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.008.3
[group of six Indigenous men and one Indigenous youth standing in front of tents. Man at center may be holding a tin of food. Man second from the right may be holding a box camera. Possibly in Tyonek or Eklutna]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska
Collection: B2021.008 Myrtle Everett Bragaw
B1995.014.54.17
Auction sale after a town member's death, Fort Yukon, 1934 [Athabascan men, women, and children standing outdoors, girl in center eating apple, woman at right wearing Athabascan-style beaded baby belt, Yukon River in background]
Keywords: clothing, food
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1280
O81 Volcano dust comes to Anchorage; 15 July 1953 [Fourth Avenue, service men and civilians walking, automobiles, 4th Avenue Theater at far left; Lee's Menseart, Ship Creek Market, Food Center; Mount Spurr eruption]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.14.5.People.12.042
People-Parades-Anchorage 4/4/47 1755-9c; Boy Scout float - camping scene - in 4th July parade 1947 [flatbed truck with trees, plants, scouts on float, "Sponsored by Catholic Church Crimont Society," spectators, Food Center, people on roofs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1995.010.350
4th Ave [Fourth Avenue street scene in winter, with pedestrians, automobiles, and businesses including H. Seidenverg Clothiers, Food Center, Ship Creek Meat Co., Dr. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son, Lois Beauty Salon; before 1953]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.008.792
T21 [three climbers in tent at base camp, George at left holding cup and spoon; man in
center smoking pipe and serving up food with box of flat bread on knees, possibly H.L. Tucker;
man at right holding cup and spoon, possibly G.A. Rabehl. has neg. cf. .775]
Keywords: camp, cooking, tent
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.792.t21
T21 [three climbers in tent at base camp, George at left holding cup and spoon; man in
center smoking pipe and serving up food with box of flat bread on knees, possibly H.L. Tucker;
man at right holding cup and spoon, possibly G.A. Rabehl. has neg. cf. .775]
Keywords: camp, cooking, tent
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.792.t21negcrop
T21 [three climbers in tent at base camp, George at left holding cup and spoon; man in
center smoking pipe and serving up food with box of flat bread on knees, possibly H.L. Tucker;
man at right holding cup and spoon, possibly G.A. Rabehl. has neg. cf. .775]
Keywords: camp, cooking, tent
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.638
E55 Eskimo blanket toss at Anchorage "City Hall, 1950" [Fur Rendezvous, A boy is high in the air above blanket, surrounded by large croud; automobiles, people standing on pickup truck, wet streets, Food Center sign across street, Northwest Airlines sign; label is affixed to neg with cellophane tape]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.25577
Foods - picnic over Ruth Gl. Alaska Rge. Mt. Sheep barbecue. F10-95 [Tourists eat meal served by Don Sheldon (center), coleslaw, orange, meat; man wearing plaid shirt, glacier glasses and pear-shaped hat at left; man wearing red jacket and gaitors, backpack, hat, glacier glasses on head at right]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.2035
T248 Down-town Anchorage, Alaska [envelope reads: "T250 Anchorage; 4th Ave at Hewitt's;" street scene looking northwest; pepole walking on sidewalks; automobles; businesses including: Ship Creek market Food Center; J.Vic Brown & Sons Jewelers; 515 Club; Lois Beauty Salon; Pacific Northern Airlines; Hewitt's Drugs; National Bank of Alaska; Ellen's]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1963.016.074
[Alaska Native woman with sled dog team, Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. Fourth Avenue street scene with businesses including J. Vic Brown & Sons Jewelers, Dr. L.W. Hines Optometrist, Food Center, Crocker’s Dept. Store, Lee’s Menswear. Gordon Henning, Anchorage Times, photographer. At AFN 2016, musher identified as Lena Charley from the Tok/Chistochina area] [Ahtna. Tsiis Tl'edze' Caegge (Chistochina).] [Dena'ina Territory; Dena'ina Elnena]
Keywords: Ahtna, Woman, Lena Charley, BIPOC, Indigenous, Sled, Dogsled, Dog Team, Dogs, Husky, Huskies, Musher, Mushing, Anchorage, Fur Rendezvous, Fur Rondy, Fourth Avenue, 4th Avenue, Avenue, 4th Ave., Business, Building, J. Vic Brown & Sons Jewelers, Dr. L.W. Hines Optometrist, Food Center, Crocker's Department store, Crocker's Dept. Store, Lee's Menswear, Anchorage, Alaska, Tok, Chistochina, Tsiis Tl'edze' Caegge, Dena'ina Territory, Dena'ina Elnena, Anchorage Times, Gordon Henning, Photographer
Collection: B1963.016 Marie Silverman
B2017.024.1114
Aug61P Barrow [two men, woman, children stand near square hole in sodded ground, likely an underground food storage cellar; one man appears to be holding a briefcase; both men wear dress shoes, one smoking cigarette; child on tracked vehicle in left background; water, shore in distance. At AFN 2022, individuals at center identified left to right: Sadie Neakok (plaid parka with fur trim on hood) and Ronald Neakok (parka? With fur trim on hood)]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Woman, Children
Collection: B2017.024