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B1990.014.5.Cat.1.15
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Ketchikan Fire){policeman directing two pedestrians away from the fire}
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, policeman
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Logging.2.44
(Ketchikan Pulp Company Thorne Bay)(5008)(July 1966)(Air)(Ketchikan Pulp Co.)(camp and shop area from direct front)(3 ea 5-29-68)
Keywords: forestry, logging, lumber, timber
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 2
B1990.003.006
Ilene Adams Ninilchik School 1936-38 This school was built under the direction of Alyce E. Anderson, first territorial school teacher in Ninilchik. 1912
Collection: B1990.003 Alyce E_ Anderson Collection
B1989.016.2054.40
40-40 (July 4, 1940) [policemen directing people away from fire in business on Fourth Avenue, signs in foreground for Panhandle, Shoe Shine, Bakery, Star, Lunch Room]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2025
Mt. View Road, Anchorage, Alaska. T241 [Mountain View businesses and automobiles, including Gateway Service; Mt View Cleaners and Washaroo; Mt View Shoe Repairing; Sunset Trailer Park directional sign]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1086.5
M-8. Prize Holstein bull and direct descendant of the famous "Carnation Brand" stock, Eklutna School stock. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska (Matanuska Valley Fair, Prize Stock, 1937) [boy holding calf with halter next to barn]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.835
9th day, 4 P.M. Looking down from the ridge, up which we were now toiling, onto the
glacier that had balked us that morning, at about [circle]. Cracks 25 ft. inside that had kept us
from gaining the ridge direct. 16 [bird’s eye view of glacier with crevasses, Mount Blackburn
expedition, 1911?]
Keywords: glacier, seracs, climbing, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1878
(T143 Girdwood) [summer street scene; boy walking near center of image; woman standing near open car door at right; bag on ground; The Little Dipper Inn, Post Office, Liquor Store, Hamms Beer sign, Cafe Hotel Cocktail Bar directional sign, structures, automobiles; structures, corrugated roof, gravel road, steel drums (containers) next to car at left, possibly with tap; mountains, glacier in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley