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B1994.022.929
(Copper River and Northwestern Railway)
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1989.016.2055.37
37 (July 4, 1938, parade) [floats lined up for parade including Anchorage 4-H Club, parked trucks festooned with banners and flags including truck from Alaska Transfer Co., buildings visible in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.023.027
(Nymph Nellie and the Gang, two women on lawn one painting the other dressed as a butterfly)
Collection: B2014.023
B1989.016.1873.1
Alaska Reindeer. Hewitt's Photo, Anchorage. (#9) [nitrate negative, cracked]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.4
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932, 4) [flatbed truck draped with white sheets decorated with crosses, Red Cross or hospital float, people on back dressed in scrubs, houses in background]
Keywords: healthcare
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.19
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932, 13) [young girl wearing bathing suits and holding ice cream cone sitting on fender of automobile festooned with banners and crepe, sign on front bumper for Hewitt's Photo Shop, building in background]
Keywords: businesses, food, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.023.021
(People with lawn umbrella)(Brown's, Jeanne, ?)[Jack Brown, Nellie Brown, Jean Laurence and two un identified individuals sitting in lawn chairs around a picnic table with opened umbrella infront of a road house or lodge]
Collection: B2014.023
B1998.014.1.3599
(Anchorage, Mt View)[MountainView Store with lumber stacked to the side and two cars parked in front]
Keywords: groceries, commerce, hardware store, construction
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.028.27
[intersection of paved road, possibly Muldoon Road, with gravel Debarr Road, sign at left for “Beautiful Alaskan Village Mobile Home Park”. Alaskan Village was at 7800 Debarr in 1961]
Collection: B2017.028
B1970.019.282
Left to Right Harry G.Abrecrombie Mrs. F. N. Chapin J.J.D. Queenie Russell (Mrs. Mackie) R.C. Luckow Mrs. H.G. Abercrombie
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B2014.023.024
(People with lawn umbrella)(Brown's, Jeanne, ?)[Jack Brown, Nellie Brown, Jean Laurence and two un identified individuals sitting in lawn chairs around a picnic table with opened umbrella infront of a road house or lodge]
Collection: B2014.023
B1989.016.2185.1
2. (Ice Carnival, 1957) [two men and woman in costumes skating in front of spectators under electric light, night, outdoors]
Keywords: winter sports, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.002.62
Different view of above [Hess cabin, cf. .60. Interior with chairs, phonograph, illustrations on walls]
Keywords: residences, music
Collection: B2016.002
B1989.016.2054.19
19-1940 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [young boys holding banner for 4-H Club Anchorage Young Farmers passing Rexall Drugs and Hewitt's Drug Store on Fourth Avenue at E Street]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.850
(Mountains from Billum's cabin)
Keywords: landscape, mountains
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1989.016.1936.2
(Richardson Vista housing, Nov. 6, 1952) [pedestrian on sidewalk, children playing on grass in housing development]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2055.40
40 (July 4, 1938, parade) [boy in costume riding horse, woman in costume, float in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.8
19. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #11 leading nine-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue, with spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1937.2
6 (Fur Rondy Ice Show, 1950) [group of girls in costumes getting set to skate, Fur Rendezvous, Anchorage]
Keywords: sports, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.5
16. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #6 leading eight-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.6
17. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #9 leading seven-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue, with spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.7
18. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #10 leading nine-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue, with spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.019.33
Fr. Hubbard taking pictures at Palmer picnic, St. Michael's [Father Bernard Hubbard holding camera standing near tripod, people seated on ground eating]
Collection: B2014.019
B1989.016.1936.3
(Richardson Vista housing, Nov. 6, 1952) [view looking east to Chugach Mountains, automobiles parked along sidewalk in housing development]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.019.450
331. Nome. McCutcheon, Anchorage [two Alaska Native women on beach, one wearing fur parka and headscarf and carrying baby, one wearing print parka with fur ruff]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.019
B1989.016.2055.34
34 (July 4, 1938, parade) [Anchorage 4-H Club float, General Motors flatbed truck festooned with banners and carrying children, buildings visible in background]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2055.4
4 (July 4, 1938, parade) [clown on bicycle near wooden stands filled with spectators]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.188
[Indigenous Alaskan child in fur parka looking at snow; man seated on small platform in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young boy, Child, Boy, Parka, Fur parka, Clothing, Outerwear, Snow, Winter, Man, Seated, Sitting, Platform, Landscape
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.2
Karen Christensen, Ca[r?]pendale girls at Goodwin Gulch 1921. [Inupiaq territory. Group of four girls, two with twisted braid hair buns; tundra landscape background. Karen Christensen daughter of Hans J. Christensen. Hans J. Christensen family photograph album online at Alaska's Digital Archives.]
Keywords: Inupiaq, Territory, Goodwin Gulch, Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girls, Young women, Children, Hairstyles, Braids, Tundra, Landscape, Karen Christensen, Carpendale, Capendale, Sisters
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2013.070.020
[Fifth Avenue street scene, with snow, pedestrians, automobiles, and signs for businesses including Kimball’s, Independent Lumber, and Book Cache, “Anchorage snow storm of 1954”]
Collection: B2013.070
B2019.008.144
Fixing saw [two white men and two African American men working on equipment outdoors, pile of fuel wood in background, laundry hanging on clothesline at right] .145 – Harold & R.C. truck & Mack [man sitting on front bumper of Chevrolet pickup truck on dirt road, posed with dog]
Collection: B2019.008
B2013.070.04
Anchorage 1953 [woman in costume riding paint horse down street, house and spectators in background; Shrine Circus?]
Collection: B2013.070
B2019.008.002
Rich Coleman, Peg, Sherrie [man and woman standing next to chalkboard reading "Everyone Fall In, We’re Having A Ball!" with Halloween images, Peggy behind board, Tatalina Lodge], c. 1950s
Keywords: Halloween, People, Tatalina Lodge, Peggy Farmer Mullins
Collection: B2019.008
B1990.14.5.People.12.153
People-Parades-Anchorage 7/49; 7/4/49 [man on horseback in western wear, card deck motif on chaps, spectators]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People