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B2009.017.1983.Public.Wreck.Creation.Area
“Public wreck creation area” ©1983 [abandoned truck at Kincaid Park; junk car graveyard on bluff]
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1992.05.10
Joe Hazelwood Accepts teaching job at mariners college
Keywords: comics, exxon valdez, evos, Anchorage Daily News, political, cartoons
Collection: B2009.017
B2014.012.90
Knuluk, Alaska, 1910 [man, women, and children standing in front of barabara, cache and mission buildings in background]
Keywords: churches, religion, residences
Collection: B2014.012
B2022.002.13.2
Cal Williams’s headshot, Hollywood, California, 1971-1975 [black and white photographs of Cal Williams, at bottom: contact information about Cal Williams’s manager, Ernestine McClendon of Ernestine McClendon Enterprises Inc.]
Keywords: Cal Williams
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1990.014.5.People.3.153
2/24/1964 Fred Machetanz Judging an Art Show He is one of the state's Best known artists.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 3
B2016.019.7.30.05565.04
Pacific Telecom [Alaskan Workers - Phone Technicians], c. 1986
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Pacific Telecom, Alaskan Workers, Phone Technicians, People
Collection: B2016.019
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.71
(Anchorage Schools North Star)(Spenard School Nov 1952)(11 2981 52)(North Star Elem)
Keywords: education, school, students
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.72
(Anchorage Schools North Star)
Keywords: education, school
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.72b
(Anchorage Schools North Star)
Keywords: education, school
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.72c
(Anchorage Schools North Star)
Keywords: education, school
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.73
(Anchorage Schools Ptarmigan)(8 May 72)(7negs 1/4b&w)(Ptarmigan Elem School East 9th Ave near Turpin Panel and Bldg)
Keywords: education, school, students
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B1990.014.5.People.3.128
The Passing of Winter The Sydney Laurence Co. Original negative of Syd's "Ice on Inlet Beach" by Sydney Laurence 1915 10486
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 3
B1989.016.2054.4
4-1940 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [baseball players in uniforms with moose logo passing Rexall Drugs and Hewitt's Drug Store on Fourth Avenue at E Street]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2023.003.44
3985, 19, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad train engine and train cars parked on tracks with an automobile parked to the right of tracks and snow-capped mountains in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Portage, Alaska Railroad, Chugach Mountains, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
B2009.020.018
{Anchorage Alaska 1988}{4th Avenue Theater interior and details}
Keywords: theater, 4th Avenue, interior, Anchorage
Collection: B2009.020
B1989.016.2054.14
14-1940 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [military truck carrying Army soldiers and pulling heavy artillery passing Rexall Drugs and Hewitt's Drug Store on Fourth Avenue at E Street]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.007.639
Togiak. 1991; Alaskan Native Eskimo woman picking grasses for baskets [grass harvesting; structures in background]
Collection: B2019.007
B1990.014.2018.1.86.001
31-1; Nov 23rd Pan X 32-20; Dev in DK 20-15 min @ 65°; Lynn's elephant "Exodus" [polka-dot elephant atop magazine rack; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.86.001
31-1; Nov 23rd Pan X 32-20; Dev in DK 20-15 min @ 65°; Lynn's elephant "Exodus" [polka-dot elephant atop magazine rack; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.86.002
31-1; Nov 23rd Pan X 32-20; Dev in DK 20-15 min @ 65°; Lynn's elephant "Exodus" [polka-dot elephant atop magazine rack; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.86.002
31-1; Nov 23rd Pan X 32-20; Dev in DK 20-15 min @ 65°; Lynn's elephant "Exodus" [polka-dot elephant atop magazine rack; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.86.003
31-1; Nov 23rd Pan X 32-20; Dev in DK 20-15 min @ 65°; Basha on staircase [woman wearing velvet-looking dress and pumps poses on stairs; paneled wall with art in background; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.86.003
31-1; Nov 23rd Pan X 32-20; Dev in DK 20-15 min @ 65°; Basha on staircase [woman wearing velvet-looking dress and pumps poses on stairs; paneled wall with art in background; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.024.1060
Jan71P7 #16045 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing feathered head dress, parka, gloves with snowflake pattern dances in front of men, women, drummers, singers; artwork on display in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Dancing, Drum, Drummers, Feather headdress
Collection: B2017.024
B2009.020.019
{Anchorage Alaska 1988}{4th Avenue Theater interior and details}
Keywords: theater, 4th Avenue, interior, Anchorage
Collection: B2009.020
B2015.008.1191
[commercial portrait of horse saddled for riding, wooden step for mounting set nearby, Transcaspian Oblast. With Russian caption]
Collection: B2015.008