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B1989.016.1998
(Seward Highway in Winter)[Seward Highway at Turnagin Pass in winter]
Keywords: winter, travel, snow, highway, mountains
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1995
(Along Seward Highway)(has print)[Chugach mountains and hemlock trees at alpine tree line]
Keywords: mountains, winter, snow
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2021.2
(Oblique of Fourth Avenue,1959)(8x10 cropped)(original 4x5 negative)(original 11x14 filed in overzies photo box)[A view of downtown Anchorage looking down 4th Ave towards the Chugach Mountains]
Keywords: urban, streets, street lights, street signs, water tower, apartment building
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2009.2
(Alaskan Sawmill, Goat Creek, 1955)
Keywords: lumber mill, resource extraction, lumber, wood
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2006.8
(Russian Aleut graves , Eklutna 1955)
Keywords: graves, church
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.156
Scn 10 3475 53 Portage Glacier [aerial view, glacier, rocks, mountains in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.186
Scn; Ice cave Portage Gl [glacier]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.187
Scn; Face of Portage Glacier; 4 March 1962.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.188
Scn Portage Glacier; 4 March 1962. [people approaching glacier face on frozen lake, sled, man carrying tripod, smoking pipe, crampons]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.194
(Portage Glacier; 25 June 1961) (people, automobiles in parking lot near lake, icebergs, woman with camera standing next to Dodge station wagon with California plate SYN838; luggage carrier; Rambler with Alaska plate 76277; Oldsmobile with Alaska plate 80039 backed toward lake with trunk open; trash can near lake]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.2009.5
Alaskan Sawmill Goat Creek, Alaska Hewitt's Drug Photo (Alaskan Sawmill, Goat Creek, 1955)
Keywords: lumber, lumber mill, wood, resource extraction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.158
Scn 10 3477 53; Portage ice peak [icebergs, glacier, lake]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.176.3
Curry Hotel, dining room, A.R.R. Hewitt's 26. [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1771.1
(Portage Glacier) [river in foreground, with bridge over water in middle distance, snow-covered mountains in background]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.157
Scn 10 3476 53 Portage Glacier 10 October 1953. [aerial view of glacier face and surface, mountains, calved ice in lower left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.4.Scn.16.1986jun.p7.6
Print date Jun 86
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.4.Scn.18.1986oct.p9.23
Print date Oct 86
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2016.019.3.16.03055.03
Summer scenic on 4th Avenue in downtown Anchorage, Alaska [Anchorage - Buildings - Hilton Hotel], c. 1982
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Summer, Anchorage, Buildings, Hilton Hotel, 4th Avenue, Downtoan Anchorage
Collection: B2016.019
B1998.014.1.1015
(L146 Seward Highway) [View of Turnagain Arm, water, automobiles on highway, gravel pullout, mountains across water]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.044
Scn; Searching Wrangell Mountains for Dall sheep, Alaska Guide Lawrence Roberto of Alexander Creek; September 1959. [possible glacier in distance, man seated on rocky ground, looking through binoculars, duffle or rucksack at right]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.052
Scn 18841; Air, Portage Glacier area showing Inn also; 12 October 1957; 5 12 July 1967. [aerial view of Portage Lake, icebergs near river outflow, valley in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.143
Scn 8257; Portage Glacier & boss; 25 September 1958. [woman sitting on boulder at lake edge photographing, icebergs, lake, glacer, mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.154
Scn 10 3473 53; Portage Glacier. [aerial view of glacier, lake, icebergs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1991.035.2
Alaska Commercial Company's schooner "Pearl" entering Ounalaska Harbor, 1887
Keywords: boats, businesses, transportation
Collection: B1991.035 Berta Walsky Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.12.004
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.145
Scn 8260; Portage Glacier; 25 September 1958. [two people walking near lake shore, icebergs, mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.045
Scn; Camp in the Wrangell Mountains after heavy snowfall. Alaska. September 1959. [tents, shelters, snow]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.040
Scn; Worthington Glacier; 5 September 1964
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.159
Scn 10 3478 53; Ice pinnacle. [glacier, icebergs, mountain]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1998.014.1.1017
{L149 Kissing bridge (covered) near Anchor River?MB} [barely discernable from neg: "near Cooper's [sic] Landing; Alaska's only 'kissing bridge'"; gravel road in foreground, river]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.051
Scn 19741 Air; Portage Glacier & Portage Inn; 3 ea 8x10 12 October 1957; Portage Glacier Dec 8/1966 8 [aerial view of Portage Lake; buildings, roads, parking areas, automobiles in foreground; glacier and mountains in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2017.020.021
[passengers walking across tarmac to board Alaska Airlines Douglas C-47 Skytrain airplane tail number N91005]
Collection: B2017.020
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.12.002
Portage Glacier 4 negs; Air and surface 2-1/4 negs Air: 14 Aug 1974: Surgace Aug 21 '74; Portage Glacier, Terminal Lake and Visitor's viewing area. [view from above glacier looking toward lake, river outlet, and Turnagain Arm]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.080
Scn 10329; Jane Haycock [actually Haycraft], Miss Alaska 1968; 20 July 1968; Glacier. [woman wearing shorts, headscarf, camera posed on rock in lake, waving; icebergs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.053
Scn 18845; Air; part of Portage Lake & Valley - northwest to railroad 1954 Portage Glacier. [aerial view of lake, glacier, icebergs, road, parking areas]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.088
Scn 10331; Linda Chavis, Jane Haycraft, Miss Alaska 1968; Portage Glacier 20 July 1968; Glacier. [two women sit or stand on rocks in lake, icebergs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.12.006
Portage Glacier 4 negs; Air and surface 2-1/4 negs Air: 14 Aug 1974: Surgace Aug 21 '74; Portage Glacier, Terminal Lake and Visitor's viewing area. [aerial view of roads, buildings, lake outlet, icebergs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.043
Scn Portage Glacier 1944 DCK [icebergs, water, shore, rocks, mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.13.033.1b
Scn, Mendenhall Glacier; no print; 15 June 1968 [aerial view; icebergs in water in foreground]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.086
Scn 10333; Linda Chavis, Jane Haycock [actually Haycraft], Miss Alaska 1968, 20 July 1968, glacier. [Two women at Portage Lake; one wearing parka and mukluks, standing on rock in lake, one looking at her from smaller rock; icebergs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.2144.5
#6. Last climb to the summit of Chilkoot Pass. Larss & Duclos, Dawson (Old Klondike) [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.059
Scn 10660, CPS; Jane Haycraft & Linda Chavis; 20 July 1968; Glacier; [similar to .1.058]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1998.014.1.097
A 40 black bear, 2 negs - 1 print 1946 [bear balanced atop stump]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley