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B1989.016.784.16
[Eight men and dog next to Star Air Lines airplane at Merrill Field, hangar and Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.1
[Star Air Lines airplanes with skis parked at Merrill Field in Anchorage in winter, hangar with wind sock and Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.11
[Star Air Service CH-300 Pacemaker NC259M "Aquila" with skis in winter]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.14
[Star Air Lines airplanes with skis parked at Merrill Field in Anchorage in winter, hangar with wind sock and Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.12
[Star Air Lines airplanes with skis parked at Merrill Field in Anchorage in winter, hangar with wind sock and Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.13
[Two Star Air Lines planes with skis in winter at Merriill Field, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1553.4
(Early Alaska Airplane Scenes) [Star Air Service biplane in flight, Chugach Mountains behind]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.17
[Eight men and dog next to Star Air Lines airplane at Merrill Field, hangar and Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.783.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [McGee Airways airplane NC211W draped with furs, with two men]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.783.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [McGee Airways airplane NC211W draped with furs, with two men]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.783.4
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [McGee Airways airplane NC211W draped with furs, with two men]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.10
[Star Air Lines airplanes with skis parked at Merrill Field in Anchorage in winter, hangar with wind sock and Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.4
[Star Air Lines airplane NC781W with boxes of Garrett's Virginia Dare wine at Merrill Field, Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1552.2
(Eklutna Powerhouse) [Eklutna Power Plant. copy neg]
Keywords: power generation, electricity
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1552.3
(Eklutna dam) [copy neg]
Keywords: power generation, electricity
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1553.10
(Early Alaska Airplane Scenes) [view from tail of American Airways Fairchild 71 number NC 9745 at Merrill Field, wings folded to side of airplane, with wind vane visible in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2119
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Ben Eielson's casket on boat at Seward to go to Seattle, March 1930) [group of men gathered around flag-draped casket with flowers]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.18
[Eight men and dog next to Star Air Lines airplane at Merrill Field, Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [Mary Barrows, first woman pilot licensed in Alaska, standing next to Star Air Service Flight Instruction airplane at Merrill Field, 1932]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.3
[Star Air Lines airplane NC168N at Merrill Field, Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.783.3
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [McGee Airways airplane NC211W draped with furs, with two men and two women]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1553.3
(Early Alaska Airplane Scenes) [Star Air Service biplane on takeoff]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.678
82. Alaska Winter Blossoms. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [hoar frost on trees]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2116
Hewitt's 4 (Miss Alaska, Fur Rendezvous 1950, Carnival Series #4) [young girl in fur parka]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2117
Moose tracks, Pipple Farm [winter scene with snow on hay stacks in foreground, buildings in middle ground, Mt. Susitna in distance, Pippel homestead, Eagle River. copy neg]
Keywords: houses, residences, agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2118
(Country Railroad Station) [unsigned cartoon. copy neg]
Keywords: wit and humor
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.5
[Star Air Lines airplane NC781W with boxes of Garrett's Virginia Dare wine at Merrill Field, Milt Odom loading boxes into plane]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1553.1
(Early Alaska Airplane Scenes) [pilots climbing into cockpit of Star Air Service biplane "North Star." Flight instruction?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1553.2
(Early Alaska Airplane Scenes) [Star Air Service biplane NC7[09Y?]]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1488
Suspension bridge, Alaska. G.L. Johnson, Anchorage, Aaa [bridge over river gorge, with dead tree snag in foreground, snowy mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1540.7
[aircraft accident, man standing next to damaged airplane in field]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2364
"A Denali Ram," Joseph S. Dixon 1926
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B2022.003.71
F 116 122, Two men in kayak [two individuals sitting back to back in a skin kayak on the water]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Kayak, Skin
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
B1998.014.1.1092
N5 Northern Lights [copy neg; winter scene, mountains, snow, aurora borealis,
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1529
Anchorage Hotel. Hewitt's Photo Shop [Anchorage street scene, corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street, with pedestrians, automobile, and businesses including Rexall Drugs and Dr. Egan Physician-Surgeon]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1560.7
(The Salvage of the Winnie Mae) [men working to right wrecked airplane]
Keywords: aviation, aircraft accidents
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2422
"Christmas cards" [similar to .2419, with log cabin photograph]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2312.9
(Alaskan Merchandisers, exterior of office, May 9, 1951) [business with loading dock area next to Alaska Railroad tracks, garage area at right, automobiles parked outside, buildings on bluff above]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.15
[Eight men and dog next to Star Air Lines airplane at Merrill Field, hangar in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1420b
S23 Japanese equipment captured in the Aleutians [copy neg, same as .1420a]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2056.10
Hewitt's 10 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army band) [military marching band standing in formation with instruments on Anchorage street, buildings in background, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: musical instruments
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2242.4
(City Building, August 1, 1936) [exterior of Anchorage City Hall under construction, with workmen on roof and supplies in yard]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2243.3
(Star Air Service, pilots/inspectors, Hugh Brewster, CAA; Burris Smith, mechanic; M.J. Valley, pilot) [names not individually associated with negs. Portrait of man in light-colored fur parka with dark hood roots and geometric decoration]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1528.1
(Abber Rd., Anchorage, with fireweed) [Abbott Road, looking east, with Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2242.5
(City Building, August 1, 1936) [exterior of Anchorage City Hall under construction, with supplies in yard]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2243.10
(Star Air Service, pilots/inspectors, Hugh Brewster, CAA; Burris Smith, mechanic; M.J. Valley, pilot) [names not individually associated with negs. Portrait of man in fur hat, fur mittens, and light-colored fur parka with dark hood roots and geometric decoration]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2243.2
(Star Air Service, pilots/inspectors, Hugh Brewster, CAA; Burris Smith, mechanic; M.J. Valley, pilot) [names not individually associated with negs. Portrait of man in light-colored fur parka with dark hood roots]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection