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B1964.001.555
(30' feet of snow){two men standing, one on the shoulder of the other, in front of a tunnel next to a 30 foot snow berm carved out by snow plow}
Keywords: winter, tunnel, snow, train tracks, transportation
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B2004.011.Kimball.Irving.neg3
Kimball's Store established 1915 [copy neg]
Collection: B2004.011 Bagoy
B1989.016.703
Federal Court House, Anchorage, Alaska. Bragaw's [original building on Fourth Avenue, circa 1920s]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.704
16. Prospector crossing a glacier. Hewitt's Photo Shop. Bragaw's [Bragaw name erased. Man and horse on bridge over glacier crevasse. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.705
27. Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop. [aerial]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.706
Planting potatoes, Palmer, May 28, 1948 [tractor in field with buildings and mountains in distance]
Keywords: agriculture, farming
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.019.6059.8
Mt. McKinley and Alaska Range, Stony Creek, Denali National Park, Alaska. c. 1988
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.6638.10
Fall scenic on Kenai River, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Photographer's number 6638-10. Slide print date 09/26/88
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.6638.19
Fall scenic on Kenai River, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Photographer's number 6638-19. Slide print date 09/26/88
Collection: B2016.019
B1979.002.5001
PS Hunt J1827 Off for Eklutna River from Old Knik{several men walking down path through the woods}
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2015.004.46
It is never proper for an Eskimo to dance without wearing gloves. Photo by Brickley Photocraft [man wearing Western style clothing, eyeglasses, knitted gloves, and mukluks dancing indoors, woman seated along wall in background]
Keywords: dancing
Collection: B2015.004
B2015.004.61
This Alaskan hill-billie has an eye for comfort. Photo by Brickley Photocraft [man sleeping in inflated raft, with mosquito netting suspended from four branches]
Collection: B2015.004
B1975.175.670
170. Alaska - Indian. Metlakatla. Reverend Duncan's Church. 1938. 8444
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1989.016.1317
Native woodpile, lower Yukon. Hewitt's, 40 [man with mukluks and woolen cap and coat sitting next to stack of driftwood, with dog in background. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.104.001
38-2 [Ketchikan; February 1940; Winnie Mae (ship) at dock with reflection]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.104.001
38-2 [Ketchikan; February 1940; Winnie Mae (ship) at dock with reflection]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2001.014.367
{Wonder Park Subdivision Properties and Residents}
Keywords: Wonder Park, subdivision, homes
Collection: B2001.014
B1989.016.1377.6
Anchorage Hotel. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Jan. 24, 1942) [interior of room, with bed, easy chair, bench, wash stand, and desk with chair and lamp]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1324
Examining Palmer potatoes. Hewitt's, 90 [young man kneeling in field next to crate of potatoes, Matanuska Colony. copy neg]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1318.1
B-66. Otter Lake, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska / Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [log cabin on edge of lake, termination dust on Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2146.31
#31 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [spectators gathered around majorette in uniform and three horn players on City Hall lawn, Fourth Avenue, Anchorage]
Keywords: musical instruments
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1787
(T99 Kotzebue, aerial view, Feb. 1948) [view over town looking toward sea, snow, shadows, ice, structures; person walking on trail near shore; airplane parked on snow; tail of airplane protruding from structure on snow; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.019.91
Anchorage area, Muldoon Rd, winter ’50 [scenic view down snow-covered road, Chugach Mountains in background, East Anchorage]
Collection: B2017.019
B2017.006.laughlin.mary.9172.3
Mary Laughlin, 3-29-85. Invoice numbers 9172 [reorder], 8361. Nicholas and Michael
Collection: B2017.006
B1989.016.2052.1
(Star Airlines Calendar picture) [airplane with tail number NC17082 in flight over glacier and mountains, Beech 17 Staggerwing? copy neg]
Keywords: aviation, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.14
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932, 14) [people riding in horse-drawn wagon with shrubbery, American flags and banner reading "We had cows in 1776, we have them now but we had no pasteurized milk in 1776 but we have it now at Ohl's Dairy"]
Keywords: food, animal husbandry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1509.15
(Fourth Avenue and D Street, southwest corner) [Anchorage street scene with automobile parked outside McKinley Block building and businesses including McPhee & Taylor Reliance Grocery, Kennedy Hdwe. Co. Tires, Wandling's Fur House, and KFQD. circa 1930-1940]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2145.9
9 (American Legion Banquet at the Idle Hour Country Club, Anchorage) [interior with people at tables]
Keywords: military, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2146.5
#5 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941, American Legion Float. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [parade floats passing federal building and Alaska Transfer Co. near corner of Fourth Avenue and G Street in Anchorage]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1147.1
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Final Shots Dec. 20, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, exterior of completed postal annex]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.2
Hewitt's 2 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army band) [military marching band standing in formation with instruments on Anchorage street, buildings in background, Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
AEC.J48
General Offices, Bachelor Quarters, Mess House, Hospital and Cottages, June 27th, 1917, Nenana, Alaska A. J. Johnson No. 48
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1989.016.2146.33
#33 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [majorette and marching band with musical instruments in front of City Hall, Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.005.6
[Thi]s box is the furring pen feed box, we have three in each pen then troughs etc and a feed house in one (as an experiment.) These boxes keep seagulls out and in fly time we darken the holes with canvas. I had a cap on in this picture but I look furry. I can go sit in [bull?] pen and mink will climb all over me clear on my head. I give lots of them a bite of one piece of meat or fish, holding it while they each taste. They don’t snap at all. [woman with feed pot next to small wooden pen]
Keywords: fur farming, Anchorage
Collection: B2013.005
B1989.016.1509.12
(Fourth Avenue and D Street, north corner) [Anchorage street scene with pedestrian and automobile outside businesses including A. Niemi Hardware, W.E. Hand Taxidermist, Bering Sea Airways (Roy Dickson), Walt's Transfer, [Art's?] Taxi. circa 1930-1940]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.28
Hewitt's 28 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army plow) [heavy equipment with sign "32nd Eng Grader Snow Plow" in Fur Rendezvous parade, passing spectators and federal building]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1227.3
Federal Building, Anchorage. Hewitt's Foto [view from City Hall, winter scene with parked automobile. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.007.008
[interior of store, displaying art, bottled and canned goods, and rolled items, cf. .5]
Collection: B2013.007
B1989.016.1287
Fourth Avenue in Anchorage Hewitt's Foto [view looking east, with federal building in left foreground, First National Bank on right. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection