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B2016.006.2630
[skins on drying racks next to Quonset hut, metal barrels on ground]
Collection: B2016.006
B1995.014.78.11
[scenic with tracks in snow through wooded area, mountain peak in distance]
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1603.2
104. Building material at Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [lumber in piles along Alaska Railroad tracks, with dirt road and walled tents at left, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1525.2
(Construction of City Hall Building) [passersby at construction site on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, with sign Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Docket No. 1002-R. circa 1936]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.8.1
The funeral of a young boy who went out trapping and presumably died of hypothermia. The priest's name was [Vasily] Changsak. [Russian Mission, men carrying coffin]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.118.3
[men pushing large skiff loaded with supplies from river shore]
Keywords: transportation, boats
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.118.4
Anisum Belkoff [man seated on logs piled on river shore stretching skin over wooden form, Russian Mission]
Keywords: skin preparation
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.896
A10. Alagogshuk Creek swamp, 1 ½ m. wide. 7/12/25 [view across Alagogshak Creek
flats to mountains, Katmai]
Keywords: mountains, Katmai
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.014.74.4
[two soldiers building camp fire near pine tree in winter, backpacks and snowshoes in snow]
Keywords: military, camping, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1695
Brownies, McKinley Park. Hewitt's [brown bears. copy neg]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1536.2
135. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [wood frame house in clearing with mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.89.12
[two surveyors at work, mountain in background, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1983.146.011
Main Street Anchorage July 4th1915. Laurence [crowd gathered in street, flags hanging across street, tents, Larson & Wendler, Photographer, Newt W. Pilger store]
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1989.016.2141.22
D-23 [Alaska Native woman sitting indoors, sewing skin]
Keywords: crafts
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.105.16
Fairbanks, these drills would pump water into the ground to thaw it [drilling machinery at mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.2004
T223 East 4th Avenue, Anchorage [street scene; bird's eye view looking east, likely from McKinley Building; Auto-Lite; Chugach Electric Co-op RSA; East side Service station; Alaska Native Hospital at left; Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.930
[man standing in mine entrance in wooded area, shovels and picks propped against
earthen walls]
.931 – [two men standing in same mine entrance as in .930]
.932 – [similar to .931]
.933 – [similar to .931]
Keywords: mine, miners, mining
Collection: B2015.008
B2019.003.031
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Fish camp [three girls at camp, one in center possibly cutting fish on board, large canvas tent at right, rack or lean-to at left] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, Education, U.S. Government, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Fish camp, Camp, Indigenous, Indigenous girls, Cutting fish, Tent, Canvas tent
Collection: B2019.003
B1998.014.1.792
L30 Palmer, Alaska "1946 postcard" [view of roadway, automobiles, field, structures, agricultural buidings, townshite, water tower, mountains in background; nitrate]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.56.12
[view across frozen water to buildings and pine trees on far shore, mountains in distance, unidentified location]
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1089
M-37. Colonists' Post Office. [automobile parked next to building, Palmer water tower in background, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1476.4
Nushagak winter transportation. Photo by H.W. Griffin. Hewitt's, 18 B.B. [reindeer in harness with sleds. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.003.049
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Pie eating contest [onlookers including teachers watching students eating pie off plates without using hands, Fourth of July at Eklutna] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet (Eklutna)]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, School, Education, U.S. Government, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Pie, Pie eating contest, Contest, Competition, Girls, Boys, Children, Schoolchildren, Students, Indigenous, 4th of July, Fourth of July, Independence Day, Summer, Holiday, Teacher
Collection: B2019.003
B1998.014.1.1669
T46 Anchorage, Alaska (1948 postcards, 100; last copy) [aerial view looking west; Merrill Field, Ship Creek, Cook Inlet, Knik Arm, Knik, clouds on horizon; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.118.10
[sluice box, gold pan, and other equipment at small mining operation on creek]
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.789
"L-29 Matanuska Valley farm, winter" [snowcovered brush, field, trees, barn, structures in midground; mountains in background, Pioneer Peak]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.2.3
Willow and people [aerial of mountain range and ocean, view out airplane window]
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.Album1.70
A.N. Ry. bridge across Resurrection River. Eugene Underwood [long low trestle bridge across riverbed, mountains in distance, Seward, railroad exploration, circa 1914. original image blurry]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1995.014.118.11
[riverboat and barge, possibly sternwheeler Nenana and Alaska Railroad barge?]
Keywords: transportation, boats
Collection: B1995.014