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B1998.014.1.1544
S98 Diomede Island Eskimo soldier doing Native dance for Anchorage Rondezvous (G.I.) [soldier wearing gloves with fur cuffs, drummers, singers, skin drum, furs, mukluks with geometric patterns, stage, curtains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1543
S97 Gate No 1, Elmendorf Field, Alaska (war times, 1970 postcard) [copy neg, winter scene, automobiles lined up at guardhouse; people in background appear to wait at a shelter; structures in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.853
L59 An Aleutian Landscape [copy neg; jeep parked alongside dirt road next to waterfall; likely Umnak Island]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1972.088.34
(Anchorage 1915 Tent City Auction)
Keywords: public auction, land sale, people, auctioneer
Collection: B1972.088 Mueller
B1972.088.34
(Anchorage 1915 Tent City Auction)
Keywords: public auction, land sale, people, auctioneer
Collection: B1972.088 Mueller
B1998.014.1.1545
S99 Clearing Alaskan highways and air fields [snow plow, snowbank; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.854
(L60 An Aleutian Landscape; Tulik Falls) [waterfall, likely on Umnak Island, Tulik Volcano, Mt Okmok]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B98.2.6
June 25th 1955, Panoramic Photograph of Fort Richardson Alaska
Keywords: 1955, Panoramic photograph; Fort Richardson, National Photo and News Service
Collection: B1998.002
B1998.014.1.732
"K4 Grant Pearson with dog salmon" man standing on upper deck of log and plank structure, bundles of dried chum salmon, cache, ladder, McKinley park ranger; neg has drops or blotches that appear in image]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.3403
[view down boardwalk between buildings in village, cemetery on bluff in background, Kaltag? Cf. .3258]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.2143.22
34. Anchorage taxi service for the colonists. Hewitt's Photo Shop [three lines of automobiles parked alongside platform at Alaska Railroad depot in Anchorage, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1929.7
#11 (Fur Rondy 1950) [military color guard passing The Hub and Bill's Electric Supply on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Fur Rendezvous parade, night]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1929.8
3 (Fur Rondy 1950) [Fur Rendezvous parade passing McVicker's on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, night]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.057a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle Loman Bros., Nome [Hydraulic lift, men wearing rain coats work at water-filled pit, mining operation, equipment, possibly near Nome; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.057b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle; verso of slide: Loman Bros., Nome [Hydraulic lift, men wearing rain coats work at water-filled pit, mining operation, equipment, possibly near Nome; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.2018.1.229.003
71-3 View of channel near Sitka [float plane over water; near shore in foreground; August 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.229.004
71-3 Sitka tent house [canvas wall tent, other structures in forest; possibly fabric hanging on clothesline; August 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1847
T131 Valdez [likely the Valdez dock; sign reading: "Valdez, coastal terminus of Alaska's highway system, distribution center to Interior Alaska; Farthest north year round ice free seaport in North America; Fishing - freighting - mining - cold storage - hunting; Short route to Anchorage 306, Whitehorse 662, Fairbanks 368, Edmonton 2100, Yukon Riv. 530, Calgary 2300, Seattle, Chicago" pickup truck; strutures; no smoking sign; Flamo tanks, cart, ropes, steel drums (containers)]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2054.1
1-1940 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [float with elk head, bald eagle, American flag, pocket watch, and banner with "1351" parked next to building, house and automobile in background, Elks lodge B.P.O.E. 1351?]
Keywords: fraternal organizations
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.8.1.ANC.8.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC.8
B1998.014.1.1831
T128 2nd & Lacey Streets, Fairbanks, Alaska [street scene; man walking at right; bicycles parked on sidewalk; automobiles; businesses: Lacey Street Theatre with movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released 1949), Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs; flags hanging over street]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1829
T127 2nd Ave, Fairbanks, Alaska [Street scene; people on sidewalks; automobiles, businesses: Maddux Jeweler, Alaska, Pan American World Airways, Kayes, Curios, Café, Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs, Wyman’s, Café, Model Café; movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released in 1949); flags hanging over street; smoke stacks in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1553
S103 Elmendorf AFB - 1945 (combat bomber WWII 11th Air Force named Mormon Boy II) [same as .1552; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley