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B2016.019.1.03e.03068.16
Sheffield House [Anchorage - Buildings - Sheffield House], c. 1982
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Buildings, Sheffield House, Restaurants
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.1.03e.02638
Sheffield House waiters [Anchorage - Buildings - Sheffield House], c. 1981
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Buildings, Sheffield House, Sheffield Hotel, Bars
Collection: B2016.019
B1995.010.361
[Dena’ina spirit houses in cemetery, buildings in distance, Anchorage]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.008.284
Brick house and barns from rear [view across clearing to buildings]
Keywords: vermont, farm, farm house, barn
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.595
E29 Building snow house north of Nome "U.S. Army rescue instructor builds snow hose [sic: house] (Jim Gale) [building igloos using snow slabs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.007.062b
[house tipped into fissure in foreground, damage to apartment or office building in background]
Collection: B2017.007
B2017.007.064a
[house tipped into fissure in foreground, damage to apartment or office building in background]
Collection: B2017.007
B1989.016.2143.48
92. Building homes at Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [house under construction, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2143.47
90. Home building in Matanuska Valley. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [men working on house under construction, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2270.13
(Road construction, housing) [workman walking over boardwalk to small building, clothesline with laundry at left, Lytle and Green trailer at right]
Keywords: houses, residences, roads, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.146.062
{early Anchorage frontier street with row houses, buildings and a few early cars and pedestrians}
Keywords: street, anchorage, frontier
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1984.077.10.020
[Street scene, house, buildings, boats, cars in background, utility poles, dirt road.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.17.021
[Anchorage, view of houses, back yards, garden? sheds, powerlines, large building in distance.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2016.006.2632
[bird’s eye view of red roofs, possibly of cannery buildings, houses on bluff at right]
Collection: B2016.006
B2017.007.057b
[excavator moving earth between apartment or office building and houses, automobiles parked at right]
Collection: B2017.007
B1984.077.17.009
[Anchorage Third Avenue, garden plot, buildings, Elks Club, houses in background, Cook Inlet]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.17.025
[Anchorage, overlooking Ship Creek, railroad tracks, creek, buildings, Government Hill, houses in distance.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.703
Federal Court House, Anchorage, Alaska. Bragaw's [original building on Fourth Avenue, circa 1920s]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.838
P-346. 8/7/36. Hewitt's (School) [View of buildings housing school auditorium and lodge in Palmer]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.337
(B68 Federal Building, Ketchikan, Alaska [automobiles, people in foreground; houses in distance; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.600
E31 Building a snow house near Kotzebue, Alaska "Nome" [same as .599, copy neg?]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.023.073
United States Post Office and court House, Sitka, Alaska [building, automobiles, people, bicycle]
Collection: B2017.023
B1989.016.2133.1
(The Big Snow, December 1955) [automobile buried in snow, with house and multi-story building in background, Anchorage]
Keywords: winter, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.25
(Emard's House, exterior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [side view of building, with Anchorage Hotel across street, two dumpsters in foreground]
Keywords: houses, residences, businesses, garbage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.380
Chicken house starting its way to become George’s shop [man with two-horse team pulling small building across yard, two men working at back of building]
Collection: B2015.008
B1974.005.057
Tanana Road-Hotel-Alaska, Every other letter omitted, “Tanana House.” On front: Black’s TNN HUE [exterior of building]
Collection: B1974.005 Edward Coke Hill
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.19
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Ketchikan Fire){on lookers line the street near burning house, firemen on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, fireman, policeman, accident
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2022.005.137
[Two Indigenous Alaskan Elder women with child in fur parka standing outside house midwinter; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Elder, Elders, Women, Grandma, Grandmother, Child, Outside, Winter, Snow, Parka, Fur, Mukluks, Clothing, Outerwear, Footwear, House, Home, Building, Structure, Residence, Buildings, Community
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1021.1
GZ-119 (Homes in Golden Zone) [Looking southwest in Bryn Mawr Creek, lower building with cache is Cecil Wells-W.H. Greene cabin; building to left is steam plant; building to far right is Dunkle house; large building is bunkhouse. Probably 1940s]
Keywords: mining, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1146.34
(Building Federal Building, June 22, 1940) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, seen from Second Avenue and G Street, showing scaffolding, houses, parked automobiles, unpaved streets]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1933.4
(Winter windy streets, 1952) [street scene with blowing snow, house in foreground, building in distance possibly McKinley Apartments]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.596b
"E29 Army rescue instructor builds snow house, Nome, Alaska (Jim Gale)" [same as .595, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1021.2
GZ-120 (Homes in Golden Zone) [aerial of Gold Zone Camp; small building in front is Dunkle house, three buildings above probably residences, large buildings are bunkhouse complex, top of mill visible in canyon. Post 1940]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1933.5
(Winter windy streets, 1952) [street scene with automobiles in blowing snow, house in foreground, building in distance possibly McKinley Apartments]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.15.7
[completed fish trap set on ground outside wooden building in summer, barrel next to building, entrance to subterannean house or barabara in background, fence around Russian Orthodox grave on hill in distance]
Keywords: ethnotechnology, fishing, residences, houses, religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.15.8
[completed fish trap set on ground outside wooden building in summer, barrel next to building, entrance to subterannean house or barabara in background, fence around Russian Orthodox grave on hill in distance]
Keywords: ethnotechnology, religion, residences, fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1984.077.12.032
Cordova Rd house in 21 & 22 visible w/loup [Waterfront view from ship deck, buildings, dock, mountains. Man in foreground.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.2321.1
(Boats in water near cannery) [small vessels including the Putter at dock in small boat harbor, houses and town buildings on bluff in background]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.003.075
“Anvik, Christ Church Mission" Former boys house, present infirmary [exterior of building in winter, platform in front. Original image blurry]
Collection: B2019.003
B1995.014.28.3
[mining camp in Interior, with several wood-frame buildings, Fairbanks Exploration Co., 1942]
Keywords: residences, houses
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.28.4
[mining camp in Interior, with several wood-frame buildings, Fairbanks Exploration Co., 1942]
Keywords: residences, houses
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.010.161
[bird’s eye view of locomotive and freight cars coming off wooden trestle bridge and into section house in winter, man standing next to building in foreground]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1995.010
B2018.021.375
New HUD housing, Bethel [three children standing in snow in front of building, water tank and crane at left; print date April 69]
Collection: B2018.021