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B2015.008.1078
[burial monument, John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782-1850]
Keywords: cemetary, John Caldwell
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1237
Puerto Blest, Lake Nahuel Huapi, Argentina, where Roosevelt now is [With stamp of Dora Keen. Copy print]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.736
"K7 Grant Pearson, Alaskan Ranger, negs and 4 prints" [man standing on sloping roadway wearing hat, necktie, jodhpur pants, likely riding boots, structure, American flag, flag pole, trees, mountains in distance; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.605.2
46. Broad Pass District, Alaska R.R. Bragaw's [mountain scenery on Alaska Railroad. neg damaged]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1233b
Argentina. Church & belfry constructed by Indians at one of Jesuit missions 150 years ago [same as .1233a]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.964b
Photo by E.F. Foley, N.Y. Who went to Alaska in 1914 explore and map the sources of
the Harvard and Bryn Mawr Glaciers in an unexplored part of the Chugach Mts., above College
Fjord, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Miss Keen is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. In 1912
she made the 1st ascent of Mt. Blackburn, Alaska, 16,140 ft., in an expedition that required 33
days on ice and snow, and is the only sub-Arctic exploration ever organized and led by a
woman. A surveyor will be of the party this time. The Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp,
Belgium, had invited Miss [studio portrait of Dora]
Keywords: woman
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.606
69. Girdwood, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [street scene]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.745
333.1. A sheep in Scolai Basin. 8.23.16 [two men standing on steep slope with Dall
sheep carcass, horses in background, light snow and rocks on slope. Proof print]
Keywords: horse, hunting, hunters, Dall Sheep
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.People.12.263
"4 July 1952; 196th" [parade]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B2015.008.854
Mouth of White River, 1912 [view across water to bluff, pine trees along opposite bank]
Keywords: river, White River
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.877
Chitistone Divide, G.W. Hardy’s horses [three men posed with two horses in pass. Poor
quality print]
Keywords: pack horse, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.982
Sept. 1917. Manure shed, hog barn, heifer barn, silos, hay barn, corn barn. Rape for
cattle and hogs [small format panoramic photograph of Beulah Farm. Excised from photo
album]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.917
[bird’s eye view from snowy ridge to sound or fjord below, mountains in distance]
Keywords: mountain, scenic, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.14.5.People.12.045
People-Parades-Anchorage 1745-10; Statehood float - bicycle - 4th July 1947 [boy riding decorated bicycle; flag on head, bannter, specttors]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1979.002.Album1.316
Valdez-Fairbanks Trail. R15-6. D. L. Reaburn [loaded pack horses passing log buildings, man on horseback at right, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.1228
Paraguay. Natives pushing us on handcar across a river. 100 [man and woman, possibly Elsa and Moritz Prozor, seated on car on railroad tracks, group of men standing by]
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.256
R7-6. Near Ship Creek [view of brush and trees on uncleared land, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Anchorage, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2146.11
#11 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [two men and one woman on grandstand during parade in Anchorage, possibly reviewers]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2148.9
#9B (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [bird's eye view of automobile pulling American Legion float at Fourth Avenue and F Street in Anchorage passing businesses including M & M Lunch, Don's Beauty Shop, White Top Taxi, The Gitchell, Sunfreeze Ice Cream Shop, Alaska Jewelry Co., and H. Seidenverg Clothier]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.735
"K6 McKinley Park, Recreation Camp ball game" [sport field, likely baseball game, servicemen, running, watching, spectators, two women, net and automobile in background, trees, mountains; likely during WWII; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.1129
Madrid, review of the guard in the courtyard of the palace. Taken Monday noon, just after coming out of the Real Armería. The band is playing their magnificent Royal March [Palacio Real de Madrid, soldiers marching in formation, man on horseback in foreground, spectators at right]
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.258
R33-10. Ship Creek low tide [view of mudflats and Cook Inlet, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.260a
M-7. Main St. Knik. W. F. Milliken [street scene with log buildings, signs for Saloon, K. T. Co., and Sweet Orr. Railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.125
2464 7(92514)(noon)(Cascade Barry and Coxe Glaciers from near point)
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.860
In big bend of Beaver, 1912 [pack train passing small alpine lake]
Keywords: lake
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.312
D.L.R. Camp on Hardage Creek. D. L. Reaburn [men with tents and horses in camp, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.35
M-54. Between Seward & Cook Inlet. W. F. Milliken [mountains and Turnagain Arm, ship in far distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2148.6
#6B (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [bird's eye view of floats and marchers on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage passing businesses including Alaska Jewelry Co., Sunfreeze Ice Cream Shop, H. Seidenverg Clothier, Ship Creek Meat Co., Dr. Hines Optometrist, Montgomery Ward Order Office, J. Vic Brown, Sears Roebuck and Co., and Lois Beauty Salon. Floats include 1941 model Dodge sponsored by Jack Henry Post No. 1 pulling Liberty Bell. Marchers include children on bicycles and group on horseback.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.003.016
(399 Fort Hamlin)[Several Northern Commercial Co buildings situated on the bank of an unknown river]
Keywords: commercial, industry, outpost
Collection: B1998.003
B1989.016.2146.1
#1 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941, Youth Shop Float. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [young girl on parade float passing Rexall Drugs at corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album1.318
Temporary camp, D. L. Reaburn. R15-5. D. L. Reaburn [group of men standing at makeshift table eating, short fir trees in background, railroad exploration or construction camp, probably Matanuska Valley or Kenai Peninsula, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2198.4
Lomen Bros. Nome #921 [five men at hydraulic mining operation, Glacier Creek? Nome? copy neg, original caption cropped from image]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1061
[scenic with pine trees in foreground, Mount Rainier in distance]
Keywords: Mt Rainer, alpine
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1077
421. Below Hot Springs. N.C. D.K., 26 Aug. ’98 [view down railroad tracks along river,
small building at left]
Keywords: river, railroad
Collection: B2015.008
B2018.023.114a
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [view looking down road toward entrance to most likely Mt Rainier National Park; automobiles; trees; gate hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1979.002.Album1.33
M-25. Pack train. W. F. Milliken [men on horseback leading group of pack horses down gravel bank of creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1990.014.2018.1.209.005
66-2; Farm on Snoqualimie River [view of barn alongside roadway; cows in pasture at right; Washington, March 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.209.006
66-2; Farm on Snoqualimie River [girl pushing toy wheelbarrow filled with possibly pine cones(?), appears to be holding a necktie; structure in background; Washington, March 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2021.004.269
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2018.023.114b
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [verso of slide: view looking down road toward entrance to most likely Mt Rainier National Park; automobiles; trees; gate hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2021.004.267
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1979.002.Album1.300
R32-1. Loading supplies at Ship Creek [boats and barge tied to banks of Ship Creek, men moving supplies, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2055.43
43 (July 4, 1938, parade) [Scissor Snips float? truck with flatbed holding small fir trees and children dressed in costumes. cf. 2055.38]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2145.9
9 (American Legion Banquet at the Idle Hour Country Club, Anchorage) [interior with people at tables]
Keywords: military, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2055.5
5 (July 4, 1938, parade) [baby in carriage decorated with foliage and banner reading Mistress Mary, clown on bicycle near wooden stands filled with spectators]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.003.1
91070. Main Building, front view. U.S. Signal Station, Pt. Barrow Exp., 1881-1883
Collection: B1998.003
B1989.016.2146.10
#10 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941, American Legion Float. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [three women on parade float on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection