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B1989.016.1989.5
(Anchorage International Airport,Inside Cafe, May 8, 1954)[Interior photograph of cafe showing one patron sitting at the bar]
Keywords: cafe, restaurant, tables, chairs, bar, interior
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1988
T212B Kenai, Alaska "by the road" [roadside scene, Terminal Cafe; Terminal Garage service station; automobiles; Rainbow Cafe]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.471.2
View of Fairbanks, 1939. Chena River Bridge [with Model Cafe]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1959
T 196. Wasilla, Alaska. [street scene with Teeland's store; Wasilla Roadside Cafe, Dry Goods; Hilltop Cafe, Cabins; automobiles; people]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1074.1
P-271B. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop [street scene with Koslosky's, Sally's Cafe, Valley City Cafe, parked automobiles, gas pump]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.38
4th Ave quake damaged area in front of the D&D bar and cafe
Keywords: damaged buildings, damaged streets, cars, power lines, street lights, street signs
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1994.022.755
Fairbanks Alaska Model Cafe Fairbanks sign Samson Hardware Fairbanks)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1998.014.1.1410
(S17 Mess Kit cafe; 1946 postcard) [copy neg, same as .1409]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1071
#205. Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop [street scene with railroad tracks in foreground, parked automobiles and pedestrians, businesses including Bert's, Koslosky's, Sally's Cafe, Valley City Cafe]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1081
#210. Norton Ave., Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop [street scene with Koslosky's General Store, Sally's Cafe, Valley City Cafe, parked automobile, gas pump, pedestrian]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1867.2
No. 47. Fourth Ave., Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop [piles of snow and a 1920s automobile outside businesses including Wee Course, Koslosky's, D.& D. Cafe, Frisco Cafe]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.839
P-381. Shopping Center of Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop (Folio 45) [street scene with automobile at gas pump, Koslosky's General Store, Sally's Cafe, Valley City Cafe, Alaska Greyhound Lines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.489.2
Hewitt's 17. (Parade, Fairbanks Ice Carnival series, Miss Fairbanks 1955) [float passing Model Cafe]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1781
[street scene of Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, looking west, with Mount Susitna visible at back right, automobiles on street passing businesses including Brass Rail, Starlite Lounge, D & D Bar & Cafe, Frisco Bar & Cafe, Mac's Foto, Frontier Saloon, Sportland Rifle Range, Canteen Bar, Sam's Liquor Store, Trade Wind Cafe]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2283.1
[street scene on Fourth Avenue, winter, night, with automobiles parked along street and neon signs for businesses including Winn Liquors, Firestone, City Mike's [?] Cocktail Lounge, 4th Avenue Theater, D & D Cafe, and Lido Cafe]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2283.2
[street scene on Fourth Avenue, winter, night, with automobiles parked along street and neon signs for businesses including Winn Liquors, Firestone, City Mike's [?] Cocktail Lounge, 4th Avenue Theater, D & D Cafe, and Lido Cafe]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.S1435.1
Curly's Cafe (for Jacobin), 1953 [night scene of Curly's Chinese-American food, with neon lights and automobiles parked in lot]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.1960
T 196. Wasilla, Alaska. [street scene with Teeland's store; Wasilla Roadside Cafe, Dry Goods; automobiles, people]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1985
"T212 Kenai, by the road" [roadside scene; Terminal Garage, Used Cars, Rainbow Cafe; automobiles, person on gravel road]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1230.2
[Anchorage, Fourth Avenue street scene looking west to Cook Inlet, 1930s, with automobiles, pedestrians, gasoline pump, and businesses including Greyhound Stage Depot, Owl Cocktail Bar, No U Turn, Lucky Shot Cafe, Rex Liquor Store, Frisco Cafe, D & D Cafe, Koslosky's, Walt's Transfer, Engebreth Hardware, I. Bayles Clothier, Piggly Wiggly, U.G. Crocker. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1592
#17. Children's Dog Derby, 1937. Hewitt's Photo Shop [young people with dogs on winter street, Anchorage street scene looking east with automobiles and businesses including Alaska Cafe, City Hotel, Blue Ribbon Cafe, Chugach Mountains in distance, Fourth Avenue?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1609.3
(Early Palmer Scenes) [truck carrying horse down gravel street in Palmer, past Koslosky's General Store and Sally's Cafe]
Keywords: animal husbandry, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.471.5
View of Fairbanks, 1939. [oblique street scene with road construction, Model Cafe, Lavery's, John F. Lonz Clothing and Furnishings]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1509.4
(Fourth Avenue between D & C Streets, north side) [Anchorage street scene with automobiles parked outside businesses including Koslosky's Men's Wear, D.D. Cafe, Rheinlander, Ollie's [?] Lunch, Frisco Cafe, [?]ex Liquor Store. circa 1930-1940]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1789
Lower 4th Ave, Anchorage. Hewitt's Photo [street scene of Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, looking west, with Mount Susitna visible at back right, automobiles on street passing businesses including Brass Rail, Starlite Lounge, D & D Bar & Cafe, Frisco Bar & Cafe, Mac's Foto, Frontier Saloon, Sportland Rifle Range, Canteen Bar, Sam's Liquor Store, Trade Wind Cafe. copy neg. same as .1781]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.146.020
Ship Creek, Alaska. Pyatt [two men walk down street past walled tents and tree stump, Young Lodging, Woodrow Cafe]
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1998.014.1.1768
T91 Dawson Creek, British Columbia; where the Alaska Hiway begins (milepost in street) [street scene; automobiles, military-style vehicles paked on street; businesses: Hutchison's Musk (?) Sotre, Dawson Creek Bakery, Mile zero Hotel, Cafe Hotel, Taxi, The Alaskan Cleaners Dry Cleaning, Coca-Cola, cafe]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.1455
[Anchorage street with Anchorage Sheet-Metal Works, City Bakery, Merchants Cafe, The White House. Inlet in background]. 8 x 10 nitrate negative
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.1509.20
(Fourth Avenue and F Street, northeast corner) [Anchorage street scene with businesses The Gitchell, Hotel Gitchell Cafe and H. Seidenverg Clothier. circa 1930-1940]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.57
Earthquake 4th Ave East to West from C St. Steve McCutcheon's Mac's Foto" is shown in pix just near from B&D Cafe then owned by the ONeil family- Harry
Keywords: damaged buildings, damaged streets, demolition, streets, street lights, traffic signals, tower, power lines, pedsestrians
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1989.016.1591.1
#11. Hewitt's Photo Shop [ice hockey game at outdoor rink in Anchorage, with sign for Frisco Cafe on fence, houses and utility poles in background; Delaney Park Strip?]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2197.10
(Parade, Nome) [marching band passing A.J. Mueller Jeweler and Miners and Merchants Cafe. Lomen Bros. photographers, probably Fourth of July. circa 1918. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2284
[4th Avenue Theater, exterior, "Francis Joins the WACS" on the marquee, with signs for Fourth Avenue businesses including Players Cafe, 1st National Bank, Empress Theatre, 1954]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2096
"W9 Arctic wonderland, Fairbanks (bridge & river) 1946 postcard" [copy neg, night scene, Chena River; Model Cafe and Polar Bar signs on left]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1983.091.S1441.2
Night views of Anchorage streets, rain, 9-12-53 (Fourth Avenue, 300 block east from corner of E Street) [night view of automobiles and businesses including Koslosky's, Valet Shop, Stewart's Photo Shop, D & D Cafe, Frisco Cafe, Mac's Foto, Frontier Saloon, Gooschin Jewelry, E. Pearl & Co., Union Club]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1970.015.071
From verso: Earthquake, 1964 - Central Business District, Anchorage [view looking west on Fourth Avenue after earthquake; Mac's Foto, D&D Bar and Cafe, Scandinavian Club and Bar, automobiles]
Collection: B1970.015 Betty Bannon Collection
B1989.016.1509.25
(Fourth Avenue between D and C Streets, north side) [Anchorage street scene with automobiles parked outside businesses including D.D. Cafe and Rheinlander. circa 1933-1940]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1933.7
(Winter windy streets, 1952) [street scene on Fourth Avenue with automobiles and snow piles in front of businesses including Lido Cafe and Aleutian Lanes Bowling, with McKinley Apartments in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2146.18
#18 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941, Youth Shop Float. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [young girl on parade float passing The Club and Merchants Cafe on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.771
[Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, winter street scene with snow piles, businesses including a laundry, George's Tailor Shop, Terminal Cafe, Hotel Nevada, Kenai Rooms, Jo's Place]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.004.03710
Anchorage: noon time twilight due to ash from erupting Mt. Spurr. Photographer's number: 03710 [Fourth Avenue street scene with D & D Bar & Cafe]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2208.23
(Emard's House, exterior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [automobile parked on street, signs for Cheechako Rear Entrance and Bernice's Cafe at right]
Keywords: houses, residences, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.667.1
Palmer, Alaska. 43, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [boy on bicycle outside wooden frame building with sign Valley City Cafe and Horluck's Ice Cream. Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.667.2
82. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [men working on addition to wooden frame building with sign Valley City Cafe and Horluck's Ice Cream. Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1897
T156 Kenai, Alaska (Main St) [street scene; Bob's Trading Post, Meats, Groceries, fuel pumps, cafe, automobiles structures, Redoubt Volcano at right in distance; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1990
T213 Main Street, Seward, Alaska [street scene, people walking on sidewalk; gravel street; automobiles; Yukon Bar, clothing store; Bobbie's Alaska Ship; Harding's Cafe; other businesses]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1984.077.5.012
Fairbanks [street view from bridge? over Chena River: Model Cafe, Riverside Hotel, R. Bloom, Lavery And Bailey, cars parked, skiffs in river, 2 people on far right of photo]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.1933.8
(Winter windy streets, 1952) [street scene on Fourth Avenue with automobiles and snow piles in front of businesses including Lido Cafe and Aleutian Lanes Bowling, with McKinley Apartments in distance. neg deteriorated]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1903
T159 Homer, Alaska (Main St) [copy neg; street scene with automobiles, structures, businesses: Schultz's Market, Homer Club and Cafe, Inlet Inn, Gas, Firestone; water, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1906
T161 Homer, Alaska (Street scene) [copy neg; man at left possibly filling fuel container; structures; automobiles; structures; quonset; businesses: Cafe Bar at right, Blatz Beer sign]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley