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B1989.016.2056.32
Hewitt's 32 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army truck) [military trucks and heavy equipment in Fur Rendezvous parade headed west on Fourth Avenue, passing spectators, federal building, and U.G. Crocker]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.14
Hewitt's 14 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army unit band) [men in uniform marching with musical instruments on Fourth Avenue at E Street, passing Rexall Drugs, Hewitt's Drugs, Cheechako Tavern, Star Air Lines, North Pole Bakery, Anchorage Grill, and Piggly Wiggly, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: businesses, military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.5
Hewitt's 5 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, informal gathering) [soldiers in furs coats and hats, one carrying snowshoes, buildings in background, Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.12
Hewitt's 12 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army unit with skis) [men in uniform marching in formation on Fourth Avenue west of E Street, passing J. Vic Brown & Son and Anchorage Hotel, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.19
Hewitt's 19 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army unit band) [automobile with license plate U.S.A. W 205784 leading Army band in parade on Fourth Avenue at E Street, passing Rexall Drugs, Hewitt's Drugs, Cheechako Tavern, Star Air Lines, North Pole Bakery, Anchorage Grill, and Piggly Wiggly, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military, musical instruments, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.6063
5/27/46 [George posed with two dogs next to road, log house and other houses in background, photographer’s shadow in foreground, Anchorage Fairview neighborhood, 1940s]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.2045.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska ("Seaska" airmail non-stop flight, June 20, 1936, powered with Plymouth car engine seized by U.S. Marshal, Juneau, for non-payment of gas bill in Cordova. 1985, still stored in Juneau) [two women holding bottle, ready to break on airplane wheel strut, group of men at right, Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe airplane parked in gymnasium, writing on plane reads in part "Seattle-Alaska Last Airmail Frontier Trail Blazed by the Seattle Washingtonians"]
Keywords: aviation, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.012.86
[ship in harbor, small boat alongside, near Seward?]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2014.012
B1995.010.430
[Fourth Avenue street scene looking east at E Street in winter, Clarissa with tripod and dog in right foreground, with pedestrians, automobiles, and signs for businesses including Bevers & Pfeil Building, Cheechako Tavern, Alaska Airlines, Logemann Building, Anchorage Grill, Anchorage Photo Supply, O’Harra Bus Terminal, D & D Café]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.5917
Anchorage [unidentified woman wearing fur parka, mukluks, and knit mittens standing on porch of log house in winter, same parka as Clarissa is wearing in .5915, Fairview, 1940s. Has neg
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.007.110
[Alaska Native family posed outdoors, wearing traditional and Western style clothing, one man wearing eyeglasses, young man wearing necktie and holding driving cap]
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.2198.6
Lomen Bros. Nome #1014 [three men in hydraulic mining operation, one working hose, another panning, Nome? copy neg]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.538
"D33 Dick Mitchell's team, trees background" [sled dog team, musher, parka, snow, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.037.020
.20a – [closer view of just the steam shovel picking up soil] .20b – [similar to .20a, appears to be taken a few moments after the previous photo]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B2015.007.108
[young Alaska Native woman and woman wearing cloth parka with fur ruff. Original print cropped]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2017.024.1121
Aug61P Barrow [State Trooper squats while interacting with children outside the Point Barrow Trading Post; furs hanging on line; parkas; structures; automobile in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Children, Alaska State Trooper, Point Barrow Trading Post
Collection: B2017.024
B2013.007.058
[horse-drawn wagon stopped outside 36 Roadhouse, men and dogs on building’s roof, signs on walls “Take trail at No. 77 for 30 Below Lower Dominion Ck & Dawson Short Cut,” “Dog feed for sale,” “The Nugget Express”]
Collection: B2013.007
B1989.016.2045.4
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska ("Seaska" airmail non-stop flight, June 20, 1936, powered with Plymouth car engine seized by U.S. Marshal, Juneau, for non-payment of gas bill in Cordova. 1985, still stored in Juneau) [group portrait of men and women standing in front of Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe airplane parked in gymnasium, writing on plane reads in part "Seattle-Alaska Last Airmail Frontier Trail Blazed by the Seattle Washingtonians"]
Keywords: aviation, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.5.5
Paul Oksook baling fish [man standing outdoors, stringing dried fish]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.2260
"Mink on rack, 1942 (under cache)" [similar to .2257; snowshoes; note deterioration of negative in form of spots]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.007.109
[Alaska Native family next to wood-plank building, all wearing Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B1998.014.1.442
B140 McKinley Bldg, new Anchorage land mark [view looking east on Fourth Avenue, Liquor store on left, Hamm's Beer, Schlitz signs; two people walking near store; houses, automobiles; mountains in the distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.007.149
[group portrait of Alaska Native family posed next to tent on tundra, elder woman wearing fur parka with walrus tusk gussets, elder man wearing Western style clothing and suspenders, young man wearing Western style clothing, young woman wearing kuspuk with fur trim, child wearing Western style clothing, can of Stanavo fuel on grass at left, laundry on clothesline at right, coffee cup on wooden box, boat on shoreline of water in background]
Keywords: transportation, camps, families, clothing
Collection: B2015.007