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B2021.008.Fish Trap License No. 40-406
License, Territory of Alaska, Fish Trap License No. 40-406, Trap 2, March 12, 1940.
Keywords: Licenses, Certificates, Fish traps, Office of the Territorial Treasurer
Collection: B2021.008 Myrtle Everett Bragaw
B1994.022.694
(Automobiles-1930-1939)(1936 RollsRoyce license #2215)
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.695
(Automobiles-1930-1939)(1936 Rolls Royce license #3169)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.268.022
83; Sept. 4, 1942 [Automobile with dented fender; 1943 Alaska license plate 1715; trees in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1458
(S40 Ft Richardson; O'Hara [sic] bus in front of dept hdqtrs.) [buses, O'Harra Bus Lines, Anchorage, license plate 10521, likely manufactured by Beck & Company; license plate 10533; parked at headquarters, service men, woman at right midground walking; Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2579
"Snow scenes w/1937 Buick; Feb 1937" [automobile on plowed road, snow berms, trees; 1937 Alaska license plate 4003]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2578
"Kenai Highway; snow scenes w/1937 Buick; Feb 1937; [automobile on plowed road; snow berms; 1937 Alaska license plate 4003]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
b2011.014.98.1
1920s automobile with Alaska 1926 license plate, being towed out of mud by closed-cab tractor. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B1998.014.1.2555
"Kenai Highway; snow scenes w/1937 Buick; Feb 1937" [Man driving car on snowy road; chains on back tires; Alaska 1936 license plate 2883]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2556
"Kenai Highway; snow scenes w/1937 Buick; Feb 1937" [man driving automobile on snowy road; Alaska 1936 license plate 2883; river and mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.020.8
[man washing automobile in winter, holding can of powdered soap over bucket, houses in background, automobile with Alaska license plate and Fort Richardson tag, Anchorage, 1950-1955]
Collection: B2017.020
B1989.016.1882.1
Fire Dept., Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [two fire trucks parked outside firehouse, with 515 Club visible on Fourth Avenue in background, 1950 license plate on truck]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.784.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [Mary Barrows, first woman pilot licensed in Alaska, standing next to Star Air Service Flight Instruction airplane at Merrill Field, 1932]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2577
"Kenai HIghway; snow scenes w/1937 Buick; Feb 1937" [two men stand next to automobile stopped on plowed road; snow berms; license plate number 2883(?)]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2298.12
(Chitina) [old store with faded signs for Pool Room and Olympia Beer, sign for "Chitina Townsite, Lots Sold on Easy Terms," truck with 1943 license plate parked outside building]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2006
T224 Moose Pass "1952" [roadside scene; framed structure; automobiles, one with license plate V-7426; Blackin's (?) Parking with rates for car, and car and trailer sign at left]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2024.001.61
“Back of Anch Mar 65” [red Volkswagen with Alaska license plate 100 parked along a mountain road. Snowcapped peaks in distance. Similar to .60. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, 1965]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Snow, Chugach Mountains, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Volkswagen
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B1990.014.5.People.19.018
People - Rondy, 1946; Alaska, Anchorage; Fur Rondy dog races of 1946 [musher and team racing on street surrounded by spectators; cameras; automobiles, one with license plate 2374; federal building in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 19
B1998.014.1.2567
"Kenai Highway; snow scenes w/1937 Buick; Feb 1937" [automobile on snowy roadway, Alaska license plate 4003, 1937; chains on rear wheel; bridge, railroad crossing sign in midground; mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2053.12
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932, 12) [woman driving automobile painted to look like a chicken, with the name "Henry" painted on the door, bearing American flag and Alaska 1933 license plate 1525]
Keywords: animal husbandry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.50.001
20-3; Bearded gentleman; 105 mm [man walking on boardwalk; Studebaker automobile with 1939 Alaska license plate number 348 parked on plank road; wood structure in background; utility pole; likely July, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.50.001
20-3; Bearded gentleman; 105 mm [man walking on boardwalk; Studebaker automobile with 1939 Alaska license plate number 348 parked on plank road; wood structure in background; utility pole; likely July, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1401.3
4th Avenue. Hewitt's, 47 [corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street, with automobiles parked outside Hewitt's Drug Store, Rexall Drugs, Anchorage Hotel, Lois Beauty Salon, and J. Vic Brown & Son, 1940 license plate on car]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1459
S40 Fort Richardson, Alaska (O'Hara [sic] bus in front of dept hdqtrs.) [O'Harra Bus Lines, Anchorage, license plate 10521, likely manufactured by Beck & Company parked at headquarters, service men, women; Main Store Exchange at right; Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.002.03
Cal Williams (left) with Lillor Culpepper, his paternal grandmother, in front of the home of Bennie Browning. (Right) Cal Williams’s father, Eddie Williams with his mother, Lillor Culpepper, who was in the first graduating class of licensed nurses in Louisiana. [Photocopy of black and white photo on left, of sepia photograph on right]
Keywords: Williams, Cal Williams, Lillor Culpepper, Eddie Williams
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1989.016.2056.19
Hewitt's 19 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army unit band) [automobile with license plate U.S.A. W 205784 leading Army band in parade on Fourth Avenue at E Street, passing Rexall Drugs, Hewitt's Drugs, Cheechako Tavern, Star Air Lines, North Pole Bakery, Anchorage Grill, and Piggly Wiggly, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military, musical instruments, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1950
T188 (Anchorage, 4th Ave, Winter, 1952; caption: Newest skyline along Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska) [street scene looking east from 4th and C Street; women walking at far right; automobiles; bus #40 “Spenard Area,” license plate 53480; businesses: The Mint Bar, Fly ATA; Bar Corral, Denali Theater, Aleutian Gardens Cocktails, Fine Food, Dancing; Lido Café, Dick’s Lounge, Blue Moon Hotel; Aleutian Lanes Bowling; Monty’s Furniture & Clothing; Blue Mirror Bar Lounge; Alaska Cleaners; Hotel; City [?]ke’s Cocktail Lounge, Barber Shop, Shower, Baths; McKinley Buliding in background; Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley