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B2006.023.6915.jpg
Pana-Vue JH113G1. Eskimos of Alaska. Blanket toss.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2014.002.1363
S0332. Eskimos, Kotzebue. Mending fish nets. Pana-Vue Slide
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B2014.002
B1989.016.1214.1
83. Midnight sun on the Yukon. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1098
P-125. Hewitt's [Knik Bridge construction]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1099.1
The Colony's Workshop. P-149, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [five men standing in shop with equipment and tools, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2008.1
(Portage Glacier)[detail photograph of small chuncks of ice floating in portage lake]
Keywords: ice, lake, growlers, ice bergs
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2008.3
Along the Trail copyright Bornholdt Hewitt's Drug Photo (Along the Trail)(Dog Team)(Bornholdt)[Huskies on the line waiting to run]
Keywords: dogs, mushing, Iditirod
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1066
(M13 Thawing frozen ground to be dredged for gold; Goldstream, Alaska; postcard 1946) [dredge in background, pipes in grid over ground, tailings]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1076
M16 Gold dredge near Nome, Alaska [copy neg; water, tailings, rocks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1266
(O72 Ketchikan) [lower portion of Lincoln Pole, Saxman Totem Park; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.005.206
[Young Indigenous Alaskan woman and man on boardwalk outside building]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young woman, Women, Young man, Man, Coat, Clothing, Outerwear, Glasses, Boardwalk, Building, Structure
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2016.019.1.01f.10618.22
New Alaska Commercial store in Dutch Harbor, Alaska [Alaska Cities - Unalaska], 1994
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Cities, Unalaska, Dutch Harbor
Collection: B2016.019
B1989.016.2009.1
(Alaska Sawmill, Goat Creek, 1955)
Keywords: resource extraction, lumber mill, wood, mill, lumber
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.019.1.01e.13038.28
Overview of Sand Point, Alaska, [Alaska Cities - Sand Point], c. 1999
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Cities, Sand Point
Collection: B2016.019
B1989.016.2532.1
Mt. Foraker, Alaska 17,100 ft. c. G.L. Johnson [negative brittle and cracking]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1998.014.1.045
A18 "Kodiak" tame Alaskan wolf (Kabuk, tame wolf, 1946)
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1049
(M10 removing ice from pond for spring dredging) [dredge near pond, smokestack, men on ice, likely cutting ice]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.105
A42 Mt. Sheep, Sheep at McKinley Nat'l park (negs w/captions)
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1077
M16 Gold dredge near Nome, Alaska [copy neg; same as .1076]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.019.1.02a.05135.05
Alaskan Native Nurse w/ Child Patient Noorvik AK Winter [Alaskan Indigenous People], 1986
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Indigenous Alaskans, People, Children, Women, Noorvik, Yup'ik
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.3.21.09804.18
Mount Carpathian Over Frozen Lake, Winter Chugach Mt [Scenics - Winter], c. 1993
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Chugach Mountains, Mount Carpathian, Winter Scenics
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.3.21.10035.27
Thomsen Harbor Sitka, Southeast AK summer sunset [Scenics - Sunsets]
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Sitka, Thomsen Harbor, Southeast, Sunsets, Scenics
Collection: B2016.019
B2022.004.1
A Star Airlines [?] taken at Rainy Pass NC19831 (Plane crashed and burned Sept 14 1939? Pilot killed.)
Keywords: Star Air Lines, Star Air Service, Alaska Airlines, Planes, Airplanes, Commercial Aeronautics
Collection: B2022.004 Weissinger Star Air Lines Photograph
B2022.005.122
[Two men kneeling by dog outside midwinter; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Men, Kneeling, Dog, Outside, Winter, Snow, Buildings, Houses, Community
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.72
[Indigenous Alaskan women seated on boardwalk outside house while processing animal hide (likely reindeer) and making mukluks; two young children nearby]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Women, Processing, Animal hide, Hide, Skin, Fur, Reindeer, Making, Mukluks, Children, Toddler, Building, Structure, House
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1227.2
Federal Bldg, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Foto [exterior, taken from southwest corner of Fourth Avenue and g Street, with pedestrians and corner of Crocker's store]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.126.2
Greetings from the Northland, Alaska [Christmas card with Sydney Laurence painting from .126.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1316
Curry Hotel, A.R.R. Hewitt's, 24 [exterior of Alaska Railroad depot at Curry, with tracks in foreground. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1637
[General Airways, Inc., Douglas DC-3 airplane NC47573, with rose and "Portland, Oregon" painted on tail, parked on snow with Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.349
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska (Shishaldin Volcano, Father Hubbard Expedition)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.676
(Copper and Northwestern Railway-Snow plow)(Engine number 74)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1998.014.1.023
(A12 Moose calf and friend Boy feeding moose) [no boy in image; moose on rope]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.035
A14 Wild worl w/man, photographer: Harold Young [wolf on chain]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1050
M10 removing ice from pond for spring dredging [copy neg, same as .1049]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley