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B2016.024.092
Prince of Wales, April ’53 [aerial of snow-capped mountains]
Keywords: Prince of Wales Island
Collection: B2016.024
B2016.024.096
Mendenhall Glacier, Apr. ’53 [aerial]
Keywords: Mendenhall Glacier, glaciers
Collection: B2016.024
B1989.016.1761.5
(Gold dredge, Ester Creek, 1945)
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1929.6
(Fur Rondy 1950) [Fur Rendezvous parade float carrying woman and lion statue, with sign reading "Dodi", passing The Hub and Bill's Electric Supply on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Fur Rendezvous parade]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.024.093
Prince of Wales, Ap. ’53 [aerial of snow-capped mountains]
Keywords: Prince of Wales Island
Collection: B2016.024
B2016.024.094
Glacier, Alaska, 1952 [aerial of tidewater glacier, airplane float in foreground]
Keywords: Cape Spencer, glaciers
Collection: B2016.024
B2016.024.095
Glacier north of Cape Spencer, June ’52 [aerial of tidewater glacier, airplane float in foreground]
Keywords: Cape Spencer, glaciers
Collection: B2016.024
B1989.016.1831
Salmon fishing, Ship Creek, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [men, women, and children on riverbank fishing, with train on Alaska Railroad tracks and warehouse buildings in background, water tower and Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1832
10th Rescue, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo 1 [helicopter in flight]
Keywords: aviation, military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.019.IA7-23
Wrangell (10:30 PM), 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Wrangell
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B2019.019.IA7-24
Wrangell (10:30 PM), 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Wrangell
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B1990.014.5.Scn.13.030
Scn 19102; Mendell Glacier near Juneau; June 1965; Glacier [lake and moraines in midground, stairway and rock wall in foreground]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.1301
46. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska (Eskimo seal hunter) [man with spear and rifle standing next to seal on ice floe. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.13.028
Scn 17857; Mendenhall through windows tour facility; 3; 1 June 1965
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.12.004
Scn 1722 8 910 47; 4x5 horizontal; face of Matanuska Glacier - duplicate of 1713 with small blemish toward top of negative. [trees in foreground, mountains in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.13.029
Scn 18101; Tour facility at Mendenhall Glacier; June 1965; Glacier [Juneau, no glacier in image; view of visitor center in distance, large rocks or outcroppings in foreground framing visitor center]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2016.004.65.6
Aerials from Anchorage to Talkeetna, 1977-78 [aerial of lake with docks]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.675
Shishmaref reindeer corral at 40 below, January 1986 [men building snow walls around fence of enclosures; print date Jan 86]
Keywords: hunting, food, subsistence, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2016.004
B1989.016.1830
"Glen Hi-Way", Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [unpaved Glenn Highway in winter, with view to mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.13.031
Scn 18103; 2-1/4; Mendenhall Glacier; good ice planning; June 1965; glacier [Juneau, view up rocky hill to visitor center]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2016.004.639
Picking seal meat off the killing fields, Pribilof Is., AK [man with plastic bucket bending over carcasses, trucks in background; print date Jul 84]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B2016.004
B1989.016.1833.2
Mendenhall Glacier. Hewitt's Photo 1 [three poeple climbing near foot of glacier. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.688.3
Native ivory carver, Eklutna [student at Eklutna Vocational School]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1615
T24 Juneau, Alaska, Brickley [view of shoreline and structures at low tide, wharfs, jetty, pilings, AJ mine [copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Scn.13.005
Scn 10138; 1-1/4 Worthington Glacier from highway; July 1956.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1991.030.5
Tidal Fish Trap Cook's Inlet[four men standing amongst dead fish inside the fish trap at low tide]
Keywords: fish, fishing, natural resource, fishermen, trap
Collection: B1991.030 Castner Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.12.7
(AIR: Matanuska showing origin in mts 3-4 August 1964; 7 August 1954 Glacier; 8 December 1966 6; 18737) [morraine, mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2014.016.1602
Photo by Charles Lane [portrait of Alaska Native man wearing gut parka with fur ruff]
Collection: B2014.016
B2017.024.2357
Kotzebue, June 1967 [woman wearing kuspuk carrying pail of ice on beach; objets drying on driftwood (possibly seaweed?), metal tubs]
Collection: B2017.024