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B1986.096.portpeople03
Port, people. Photographer's number 17328
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1994.008.545
(pipe storage Atigun Pass Brooks Range)
Keywords: land use, pipeline
Collection: B1994.008
B1994.008.587
location of GPC haul road
Keywords: public land use, public hearing
Collection: B1994.008
B1994.008.614.slide
(advisory committee and public hearings for land use)
Keywords: land use, meeting, public land use
Collection: B1994.008
B1989.016.1798.2
(Early Anchorage, Fourth Avenue and E Street) [street view of Fourth Avenue looking east to Chugach Mountains, with pedestrians, automobiles, and businesses including Bragaw's, Kennedy's, Borgen's Grocery/Sundberg, The Novel Variety Store]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.003.32b
Our first breakfast on Ship Creek, 1912 [Jack Brown]
Keywords: Anchorage, residences, food
Collection: B1994.003
B1998.014.1.436
"Anchorage Golf Course, Club 'em & find 'em" [Man swinging golf club, teeing off, man walking; clubhouse and automobiles in bckground; chairs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1994.008.576
(haul road in Livengood)
Keywords: transportation, haul road, pipeline
Collection: B1994.008
B1994.008.579
[Snow and Ice, wind blown around TAPS pipes]
Keywords: pipeline, construction
Collection: B1994.008
B1994.008.584
(public hearing on haul road Anchorage, AK 1977
Keywords: public hearing
Collection: B1994.008
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
B1998.014.1.403
B113 Alaska Native Hospital, Anchorage "July 1954" [similar to .402]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.002.30
Copy of drawing of Cal Williams by his friend, John Leviege, 1962 [signed hand-drawn portrait with mountains, drum, and railroad tracks in background]
Keywords: Cal Williams, Drawings
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1989.016.1240.5
Anchorage Grade School. Hewitt's, 5 [oblique view of front]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2013
(Central Luthern Church 1955) (Anchorage 6th and Fst ) (8x10 print)
Keywords: church, cars, religion, worship
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2281.1.6
(Alyeska Olympic National Ski event, April 5, 1963. Section 1)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2546
"44 yard earthmovers" [close up view of equipment in use, dirt, snow; man at front of equipment]
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
B1989.016.989
M-32. A Matanuska Valley colonists home. Hewitt's Photo Shop [home and barn with mountains in background, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2281.2.6
(Alyeska Olympic National Ski event, April 5, 1963. Section 2)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.017.1985.03.17
Campaign finance reform? NAH... Politicians shouldnt have to jump through a bunch of procedural hoops
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B1989.016.2014.1
(Hewitt's Corner 1955)(has print)[Hewitt's Store as seen from the street with cars parked in the front]
Keywords: cars, streets, street signs, traffic lights, store, drug store
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.355
(B77 Tonsina Roadhouse Mi__ on Richarson Highway) [automobiles, road, milepost 70]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.409
B118 Buckner Building, Whittier, Alaska [two people standing near entrance, mountain in background; copy neg.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.4566a.jpg
[Mt. McKinley expedition?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1986.096.274.5
Elks Youth Day, May 2, 1973
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1990.014.004.32751
Anchorage Looking East on 4th Ave from the Hawver Bldg Summer of 1950. 32751
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1998.014.1.364
B82 (Anchorage, Denali School, grades up to 6th; at 9th & A street; 1 neg; 1 print) [children playing in snow in schoolyard; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.017.1983.08.30
Always look a gift horse in the mouth - It may need a trip to the dentist Kincaid Nike Site Tues Aug 30, 1983
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, cartoons, comics, political
Collection: B2009.017
B1998.014.1.349
Westward Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska, Frank Morgan Photo (B73) [copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.007.13
[large group gathered on tundra, American flag at right, possibly Fourth of July celebration?]
Collection: B2015.007
B2017.021.3
13. Juneau from deck of steamer. Property of the White Pass & Yukon Route. Chicago Transparency Co. [bird’s eye view of town. Tinted]
Collection: B2017.021
B2021.006.35
Aunt Odessa Branch from Omaha, Aunt Janie Hayes from Wichita, Aunt Luretha Reid
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Odessa Branch, Janie Hayes, Luretha Reid, Family
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.006.37
“Suspect explains odd tomb” by Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News, May 4, 2004 Bill Roth, photographer
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Trial, Anchorage Daily News, ADN
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection