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B2022.005.66
[Indigenous girl child wearing braids and without jacket outdoors midwinter; mountainous landscape background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girl, Child, Braids, Hairstyle, Winter, Snow, Ice, Landscape, Mountain, Range
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1986.096.councilmtg.early1964
Photographer's number 5910. Early 1964. Mayor George Sharrock. from left, City Atty Harland Davis, CA Hostetler, EN Courtney, Frank Feeman Jr., Joe Yesenski, City Clerk Ben Boeke [right] City Mgr Robert Oldland, Sewell Faulkner, George Byer, Clifford Groh, David Green. At rear: Asst to City Mgr Lyman Woodman, Times reporter Janet Archibald, News reporter Will Lawson [City Council meetings, old]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1989.016.239.11
Alaska furs at Fur Rendezvous, Anchorage, 1938, No. 11. Hewitt's Photo Shop.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.5896.jpg
Fur Rondy parade
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B1989.016.1881.5
(Fur Rendezvous, clowns in snow) [two male clowns on Fourth Avenue in front of City Hall, one sitting on a dogsled, the other sitting in the snow, spectators and automobiles lining street, 1952?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.238
Matanuska farming. Hewitt's Photo Shop, 73.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
b2011.012.1.115
Sept. '45. Japanese prison camp for Allied POWs on Hokkaido. Plane is a torpedo bomber from a CVE in North Pacific Force.
Collection: B2011.012
B1989.016.2361
Alaska sled reindeer.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1989.016.2362
[Moose in the wild] Bragaw 104
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B2022.005.50
[Two Indigenous Alaskan women in fur parkas (likely reindeer hide) standing outside buildings]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Women, Parka, Fur, Reindeer, Skin, Hide, Geometric trim, Trim, Pattern, Mukluks, Clothing, Outerwear, Footwear, Buildings, Village
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1979.002.0110
City of Anchorage Date May 31, 1943 Anchorage, Alaska 714th Engineers R.R. Operating Bn. Housing Area Signal Corps U.S. Army Official Photograph
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.709
[painting of moose by Robert Lindneux, c. 1927]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.710
Mountain goat [painting by Robert Lindneux, c. 1929]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.4.7444
South Side 4th Ave Near C Street West. Oct 1970
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2001.042.33
[Matanuska Valley Fair Building, Palmer. Stamp on verso: Official photograph, Air Corps, U.S. Army, 2nd Mapping Squadron, Felt Field, Washington]
Collection: B2001.042
B2022.005.65
[Seated Indigenous Alaskan woman in fur (likely reindeer) parka with geometric design at bottom hem]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Seated, Parka, Fur, Reindeer, Caribou, Clothing, Outwear, Gloves, Geometric pattern, Design, Decorative
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.104
[Indigenous Alaskan woman and four children posed with large chunks of ice; Woman and two children wearing fur (possibly reindeer) parkas]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Mother, Children, Child, Girl, Boy, Toddler, Family, Winter, Snow, Ice, Ice chunks, Posed, Seated, Standing, Parka, Fur, Reindeer, Caribou, Clothing, Outerwear
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.263
[one Indigenous woman in fur parka with child on her back standing in snow. One dog sitting on a hill in the background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, woman, child, dog, Alaska
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2384
[Aviation, Pacific Alaska Airways, Consolidated Fleetster]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1989.016.2385
[Aviation, Pacific Alaska Airways, Consolidated Fleetsters]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1989.016.2386
[Aviation, Pacific Alaska Airways, Consolidated Fleetster] L7 PAA3
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1989.016.2151.2
Eskimos at Nome / Eskimo family. Kodagraph [woman and two children in fur parkas on boardwalk, tents on beach in background. double caption. copy neg]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.376.6
Boomtown, Old Anchorage [inside at deli counter; Hewitt's Drug Store?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.376.7
Boomtown, Old Anchorage [inside at bank counter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.People.12.278
"4 July 1952" [parade, color guard, marchers, spectators, street banner]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People