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B1989.016.1973
Kenai Lake Bell's Landing, Hewitts Drug Store (Kenai Lake at Bell's Landing)[cache on the shores of Kenai Lake with Chugach mountains in the back ground.
Keywords: mountains, cache, lake
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1986.096.180
City Managers Office. 2/25/66
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1986.096.councilmtg.sullivan
Photographer's number 8782-2 [City Council meetings, old. George Sullivan, mayor, at head table]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1989.016.1066.3
P-277. Hewitt's [side view of Palmer School with utility pole, mountains behind. Circa Sept. 1936?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1550.2
[street scene of Fourth Avenue in Anchorage looking east, with automobiles passing businesses including The Mint Bar, Coffee Cup, Bar Corral, Denali Theater, Aleutian Gardens, Lido Cafe, Rex Liquor Store, Blue Moon Hotel, Dick's Lounge, Monty's Trading Post, ALeutian Lanes Bowling. Termination dust on Chugach Moutnains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1601.10
174. The Colonial home, Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [wood frame house in clear cut area, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.Platis.1
(Platis Passport Photos 1935-36)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1989.016.1972
Kenai lake from Cooper Landing, Hewitts Drug Store (Kenai lake from Cooper Landing) [Copy photograph of the Sterling Hwy just before passing over Kenai River at Cooper Landing]
Keywords: road, lake, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1550.1
[Shonbeck Building at Fourth Avenue and H Street in Anchorage, with automobiles parked by curbs, garsoline pumps outside store in lower level of building, and apartments in upper two stories]
Keywords: businesses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.002.016
Right to left, Sargent Minor, Samuel Fleming, Fairbanks, early 1950s [note on back: Sam Sargent Minor.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Fairbanks, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990, African Americans Military Service
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2016.019.1.12a.02741.23
Truck in Anch [Anchorage] w/ xmas [Christmas] tree, [Roads and Trucks], 1982
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Roads and Trucks, Christmas, Anchorage
Collection: B2016.019
B1994.009.1420
A Western Electric photo. Photographed by A.T. Rife. AGEX, 6-27-57. 4 x 5 negative
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B1981.19.164a
(Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum)(July 11 1966 Lunch at Westward "committee on Historical Museum")(Bill Creighton_ Parks and Rec, Wanda Gilles Griffon, Bob Reeve, Bill Scot, Dick Silberer_representing Hickel) Norman Sommers, Felmer Rasmuson, Mary Louise Rasmuson, Norma Hoght, Herb Hilscher)
Collection: B1981.019 AHFAM FIC
B1984.077.16.032
[man sitting on front steps of building, same building as .010-.030]
Collection: B1984.077
B2022.005.233
[Two rows of houses on either side of the dirt road; children playing in distance]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Houses, Homes, Residence, Buildings, Community, Dirt road, Road, Children, Play, Playing
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2018.025.023
[Sydney Laurence painting of Mt. McKinley, name “Cameron, S-2” added to negative]
Collection: B2018.025
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.62
(catastrophe)(March 6 1967) Kid and fire ASHA Alder Park Low rental unit)(6226)
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, children
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1989.016.1011.7
GZ-199 (Snowbound, Golden Zone) [cabin covered in snow]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.009.1428
The White Alice System. RCA. Official photograph USAFH 4420 [map]
Keywords: Cold War, communications
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B1990.014.5.Ind.11.58d
BMR Trucking. Not used for BMR
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ind
B1994.009.1421
Type 799 WA 10kW Klystrom Amplifier, rt. front view doors closed (after F.C. 19). 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B2014.028.182
Y-74. [section of pipeline in forested area, Davidson Ditch; print date Sep 73]
Collection: B2014.028
B2019.003.051
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” [students, mostly girls, in back of pickup truck with star-spangled banner, Fourth of July at Eklutna] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet (Eklutna)]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, School, Education, U.S. Government, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Girls, Boys, Children, Schoolchildren, Students, Indigenous, 4th of July, Fourth of July, Independence Day, Summer, Holiday, Truck, Star-spangled, Banner
Collection: B2019.003
B2014.016.2007
Unalakleet. Stop on Bering Sea, native Eskimos meet every plane, help with mail, etc. [Alaska Airlines airplane NC91007 on tarmac, passengers and residents talking]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2014.016
B1989.016.1011.8
GZ-200 (Snowbound, Golden Zone) [man on roof of cabin covered in snow]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.65
(catastrophe)(March 6 1967)( Firemen tackle fire at low income ASHA Housing)(6223)
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, fire truck, fireman
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2019.003.052
“Source of supply for the Anchorage Light and Power at Eklutna” [two men standing next to log building in winter, ladder propped against wall next to fuel wood pile, sawhorse or makeshift table at left, mountains in background] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Anchorage Light and Power, Light and Power, Power, Supply, Source, Men, Log Building, Building, Wood pile, Sawhorse, Mountain, Mountains, Mountain range, Winter
Collection: B2019.003
B1989.016.1020.3
GZ-150 (Hiking in the Golden Zone) [woman standing on hillside, with river, possibly Chulitna, and mountains in distance]
Keywords: mining, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1038
GZ-103 (Miner in Winter, Scenes in Golden Zone) [man in parka and mittens outside door of walled tent at Golden Zone Mine]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.028.183
Y-75. [view down pipeline across flat area and up hillside in distance, building in middle ground, Davidson Ditch; print date Sep 73]
Collection: B2014.028
B2019.003.050
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Pie eating contest [boys with pie on their faces turning around to look at camera, Fourth of July at Eklutna] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet (Eklutna)]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, School, Education, U.S. Government, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Pie, Pie eating contest, Contest, Competition, Girls, Boys, Children, Schoolchildren, Students, Indigenous, 4th of July, Fourth of July, Independence Day, Summer, Holiday, Teacher
Collection: B2019.003
B2019.003.053
“Source of supply for the Anchorage Light and Power at Eklutna” Upper Lake Camp [three men near log building, large canvas tents in background, man at right possibly stacking small pieces of wood next to large log on rollers] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Anchorage Light and Power, Light and Power, Power, Supply, Source, Men, Log building, Building, Canvas tents, Canvas tent, Tent, Tents, Log rounds, Rounds, Wood, Firewood, Stacking wood, Wood pile, Winter, Log, Rollers, Upper Lake Camp, Upper Lake, Camp
Collection: B2019.003