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B1984.077.5.032
Deluxe rooms [street scene, bulidings, car, dirt road, telegraph poles?]
Collection: B1984.077
B2016.024.058
Metlakatla, July ’52 [view down dirt street in residential area, with automobiles]
Keywords: Metlakatla
Collection: B2016.024
B1984.077.10.020
[Street scene, house, buildings, boats, cars in background, utility poles, dirt road.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1998.014.1.1651
T39 Anchorage, Alaska [looking east on 4th Avenue near 4th & L Street, birch tree, fence, and porch in right foreground; dirt street at left; dirt sidewalk; paved streets and concrete sidewalks in midground; businesses: Columbia Lumber Company, people, automobiles; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.328
B66 Cordova Hospital and City Hall [two buildings on dirt street, wood plank sidewales, automobiles parked alongside roadway]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.329
B66 Cordova; Hospital & City Hall [automobiles, boardwalks, dirt street, auto parked between "no parking between signs" signs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1810
T115 Main Street, Wrangell, Alaska; Frank Morgan photo [street scene with dirt street, possibly wooden siidewalks; people on sidewalks; automobiles; totem poles; businesses: The Wrangell Sentinel, Bear Totem Store, Curios, Drugs; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2325.1
(Construction of Minnesota Bypass at Spenard Road, 1966) [intersection of dirt roads, with stop light, utility poles, gas stations on both sides of street]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
b2009.057.25
[Procession along dirt road, with horse-drawn carriages. Utility poles along street, buildings in background.] 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative.
Collection: B2009.057 Pyatt
B1998.014.1.1583
(T11 Valdez, Alaska) [image likely taken from automobile; hood, radiator cap and ornament in foreground; street scene, dirt streets, automobiles, trucks, boardwalks, dog at right, structures, businesses: Club Valdez, Hamm's Beer, Hotel (name illegible), utility poles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2689
Nome street scenes July 1983 [man driving three-wheeler all-terrain vehicle on dirt road, possibly carrying wooden stakes(?) structures and pickup trucks, fire hydrant in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1979.002.Album1.109
Knik, Alaska. P. S. Hunt J1825 [street scene with log buildings and fences along dirt road, businesses including Mrs. Morrison's Road House and Knik Pool Hall, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1967.019.23d
"Labor Day Parade" Anchorage, Alaska, 1920-29? [man leading seld dog team pulling wheeled sled down dirt street; Anchorage Cafe & Bakery, Bathes, Barber shop, Polley Bros General Store; spectators]
Collection: B1967.019 CIHS Isaacs
B1986.004.478
Modern pioneers going down the mail street, Palmer. Caterpillar and trailer is the only practical form of transportation over some of the roads. [men and supplies aboard a wagon pulled by a tracked vehicle; dirt road; structures in background; building supplies; Matanuska colony, 1935]
Collection: B1986.004 Odsather Collection
B1998.014.1.1694
T57 Kodiak, Alaska [copy neg; street scene, dirt and gravel roads, women, children, men, on streets and sidewalks, businesses: Liquors, Kodiak Hall, Tony’s place, The Smoke Shop, Woolinger Drugs, Victory Café, Log Cabin Liquor, Nesbittt’s, Souvenirs, Curios, Books, Postcards, Polar (Bar?); automobiles, people, men, women, children, boardwalks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1966.010.06
Big Bertha is driven through Anchorage during the 4th of July parade. The auto, draped in banners & a flag, carried 2 solders & the harmless cannon, entitles "Big Bertha, Our Captured Trophy." Anchorage 1919. [dirt streets, spectators in windows and on boardwalks]
Collection: B1966.010 CIHS Anderson
B1998.014.1.1581
(T11 Valdez, Alaska) [street scene, people on sidewalk. Businesses: Gilson's, Burch's, Gilson's delivery truck, automobiles, sign in Burch's door advertising July 3 dance and July 4 (illegible) event, flags, streamers, steel drums (containers), dirt roads, water, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Anc.14.142
"Coming and going to Anchorage Post Office." [caption] "1917 fall, 14227; Probably labor Day as parade is coming from Labor Temple - big bldg back of second flag pole. Later Shonbeck Bldg, the Hawver Bldg & burned about early 60s (also see hading, 'catastrphe'" [Empress Theatre at center back of image, dirt streets; wooden boardwalks. copy neg.]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC_14
B1998.014.1.1374
PT10 Palmer, Alaska, in the Matanuska Valley, is the trading center of a wide agricultural area. Gold mining, logging and trapping add to the activity of this prosperous community. [street scene with storefronts, automobiles, dirt road; Bert's Beer Wine Liquor, Palmer Cocktail Bar, Ron (illegible), Cafe: Home cooking; Rainier Beer; Bakery Fountain & Lunches; Koslosky's Stores delivery vehicle; Kosloskys Department Store: Clothing, hardware, Groceries, Drugs; Dancing; Home Lunch; man, children]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley