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B1989.016.1878.1
(Army paratroopers) [copy neg]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1941.1
(Alaska Railroad freight train to Portage, winter) [view down Seward Highway with railroad train on tracks at left, utlity poles along road, mountains in distance]
Keywords: communications
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.5453.jpg
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Sunset from Lazy Mt. Photo by Wayne Burkhart.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2006.023.5453
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Sunset from Lazy Mt. Photo by Wayne Burkhart.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
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
B2009.017.2004.01.08
Knik Xing Funds Show you the studies? Borrring..How 'bout I just show you the Money? 1-8-2004
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B1989.016.322.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [Fishing boats Discoverer and Kasilof out of Seward]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.322.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [Fishing boat Discoverer out of Seward]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.541.7
No. 32 Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop.
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1858.3
(Alaska Railroad yards and oil storage tanks) [view looking northeast along railroad tracks, with tank cars on tracks and storage tanks and buildings in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1877
[view across Cook Inlet to Mount Susitna with brush in foreground, winter. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1665
T44 Anchorage, Alaska [same as .1664; copy neg; blotch in upper right quadrant of image]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
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
B1989.016.1544.1
(Northwestern Fisheries Co. cannery) [cannery complex of buildings and docks in winter, with mountains behind]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.029.001
Panoramic photograph circa 1920 of Anchorage, Alaska. Looking west down 4th avenue towards Cook Inlet. Included in the photo are the A.E.C hospital, public school, ball park,Terminal hotel, Kootney Inn.
Keywords: panoramic; 1920, anchorage, 4th avenue,
Collection: B2013.029
B1989.016.2177.9
#13 (Parade) [night, Anchorage Ski Club float passing businesses including Symposium, The Hub, Bill's Electric Supply and McVicker's, Fourth Avenue, 1950 Fur Rendezvous? Photographer’s number written on emulsion side of neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.98
[Four Indigenous Alaskan girls posed together, two holding tin cups. The three younger girls are wearing western-style athletic shoes (possibly Converse). Village in background. Possibly Inupiaq territory.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girls, Young woman, Child, Children, Parka, Fur, Reindeer, Clothing, Outerwear, Western clothing, Footwear, Athletic shoes, Shoes, Sneakers, Converse, Tin cup, Village, Buildings, Houses, Structures, Inupiaq, Inupiat, Territory
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.1619
T26 Near Juneau, Alaska, Pub. by Brickley [scenic view of glacier, ice, water, morraine, trees, likely Mendenhall Glacier; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.Album1.315
D. L. Reaburn's party on Indian River. D. L. Reaburn [group of men sitting closely together near felled timber, man closest to camera whittling wood, railroad exploration party, Kenai Peninsula or Matanuska Valley, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, clothing
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.1.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1998.014.1.948
L105 Shishaldin Volcano, Aleutian island (1949 postcard) [aerial view of Mt Shishaldin, Unimak Island,snow, steam, ash]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2178
(Schooner Bend Bridge) [covered bridge over river]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.187
B11 Fairbanks RR Station & hospital 1946 [river in foreground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1911
(T165 Anchorage Fur Rendezvous; dog musher on 4th Ave.) [same as .1910]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1969.026.2
1916, Panoramic view of Alaska Range, Mt Foraker and Mt McKinley
Keywords: 1916, Panoramic photograph; Alaska Range; Mt Foraker; Mt McKinley
Collection: B1969.026_Gill
B1989.016.1146.20
(Building Federal Building, Inside Construction, Dec. 25, 1939) [construction of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, with wheelbarrows, supplies, and a string of lights down a hallway]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.19.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1998.014.1.1860
T135 Haines, Alaska "aerials" [copy neg; aerial view of Haines, structures, roads, piers, fuel storage tanks, Nukdik Point at upper right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.700
F22 Ketchikan fishermen at work, photo by Frank Morgan "Purse seining in Ketchikan" [copy neg, same as .699]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Anc.14.228a
"Anch regions - NW Downtown - aerial, 8-10-65, Anchorage skyline"
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC_14
B1989.016.1146.26
(Building Federal Building, Inside Construction, Feb. 27, 1940) [construction of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, finishing walls in room]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.54
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Apr.24, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, walls going up for postal annex, showing scaffolding and sign reading: This project being constructed under the control of the Federal Works Agency Public Buildings Administration]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1361
PM10 Taking shape in 1935 with the arrival of the Colonists, this colorful section of Palmer came quickly into existence. The replacing of old buildings with new is now in progress. (Palmer street) [street scene with business signs: Frontier Bar, Horton Cafe, O'Harra Bus Lines; Frontier Liquor Store, Koslosky's; automobiles, pickup trucks; man walking; railroad tracks in foreground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley