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B2006.023.2056.jpg
Willow Bear Run R-6 Joe Redington
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 1001-2000
B2006.023.2056.jpg
Willow Bear Run R-6 Joe Redington
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B2006.023.7522.jpg
Willow. Bear Run R-5. [Glass slide, cracked]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 7000-7999
B1998.014.1.2220
"moose on highway" [moose runs in center of road toward viewer; winter]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2013.075.162
Sand Point, 1966 [man standing on boardwalk running between houses]
Collection: B2013.075
B2014.019.34
Palmer [Father Bernard Hubbard standing at tripod, running video camera
Keywords: photography
Collection: B2014.019
B2022.005.170
[Two dogsled teams running down street; buildings and bystanders nearby]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Dogsled, Sled, Dogs, Racing, Teams, Street, Winter, Snow, Recreation, Sport, Transportation, Buildings, Town, Community, Bystanders
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.004.Jul73.ARR.womaninyellowjumpsuit
16 Jul 73P2 [woman in yellow jumpsuit running in front of a yellow train]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1979.002.4974
Pete Gallager & J.A. Hunter served as engineers on Moose Gooser Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Feb 1948 Gallagher run 7am to 3pm Hunter run 3pm to 11pm
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
AEC.G1751
A.E.C. G1751 Mile 237-5 May 17 - 1921 After the ice run in Susitna River
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.17
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Ketchikan Fire){fireman running to scene of burning building past the johnson totempole}
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, fireman, totempole, accident
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1995.014.125.2
Adak [soldier standing on running board of Jeep stopped on winter road in mountainous area]
Keywords: military, roads
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.16.2
[scenic looking through snow-covered trees to frozen river with tracks running across snow]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.16.3
[scenic looking through snow-covered trees to frozen river with tracks running across snow]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.16.4
[scenic looking through snow-covered trees to frozen river with tracks running across snow]
Collection: B1995.014
B1996.011.244.neg
Seal race [teams of four men running with poles between their legs, Fourth of July?]
Collection: B1996.011 Dr_ Edward A_ Dunlap
B1979.002.1311
(Cronin #23 Cond. Tom Hogan of North Nenana run on Tanana River ice)(EJ Cronin)
Keywords: transportation, cargo, shipping
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.004.18984
A group of Bolens sprint snowmachines, all made the hard run Talkeetna to Anchorage. Photographer's number 18984
Keywords: winter sports
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1998.014.1.479
D8 Leonard Seppla [sic: Seppala] and his famous team of Siberians. "Seppala dog team on the run"
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2008.3
Along the Trail copyright Bornholdt Hewitt's Drug Photo (Along the Trail)(Dog Team)(Bornholdt)[Huskies on the line waiting to run]
Keywords: dogs, mushing, Iditirod
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.368
B85 Public School at Spanard [sic: Spenard], Alaska [children playing in schoolyard in snow; children running]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1535.2
123. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [horses running in enclosure, mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1594.1
(Arctic Valley, Anchorage) [winter view of Arctic Valley Ski Bowl, woth buildings and ski run in distance]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1594.2
(Arctic Valley, Anchorage) [winter view of Arctic Valley Ski Bowl, woth buildings and ski run in distance]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1996.035.2.538
[aerial view during bombing run; explosions seen in lower center of image; craters, roads, structures visible]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B1998.014.1.1342
(PE10 Eskimo roundup, reindeer) [reindeer in corral, running through open gate, leaving corral, pen; snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2219
"3 moose on highway" [three moose run down road in front of automobile; image taken through windshield]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2385
"Crack on ground? 1946 postcard, November 1943" [appears to be a handprint in cement or plaster with a crack running through the surface]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.People.19.025
3-1948; People - Rondy - Kiwanis; Moose Gooser on 5th Ave & D St. [Alaska Railroad engine 1 runs on temporary track; engineer in cab; child running alongside train in snow on street; automobiles; structure in background; ]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 19
B1998.014.1.2222
"2 moose on highway" [two moose run down center of road in front of automobile; image is captures from automobile; winter]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.004.843
Mike Harrington, McGrath [musher coming into checkpoint, two young boys riding in basket, another boy running alongside]
Collection: B2016.004
B2022.005.154
[Group of men in uniform (possibly Civil Air Patrol or US Air Force) smiling and watching man running; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Men, Uniform, Clothing, USAF, U.S.A.F., U.S., Air Force, Running, Runner, Smile, Smiling, Entertainment, Buildings, Structures, Housing, Civil Air Patrol, CAP, C.A.P.
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1996.035.2.540
[aerial view during bombing run; bombs visible in right center, explosions at bottom; ship and small boats at upper right]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B1998.014.1.480
"D8 Seppala dog team on the run" [Actually, D18 Seppala in front of Ice Throne, Fairbanks, dog team, sled, musher]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
b2011.014.222
Man with fishing creel and coffee pot, sitting on running board of 1920s automobile. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative, torn
Collection: B2011.014
B2019.003.060
“Source of supply for the Anchorage Light and Power at Eklutna” Where the river runs into Cook’s Inlet [scenic in summer] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet, Tikahtnu]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Anchorage Light and Power, Light and Power, Power, Supply, Source, River, Tikahtnu, Cook's Inlet, Cooks Inlet, Cook Inlet, Inlet, Summer, Scene, Scenic, Waterway
Collection: B2019.003
B1990.014.5.EQ.08.5
Earth crack from severe 8.7 quake runs under house at Lake Otis Rd at Seward Hwy date of 27 March 1964.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_8
B1998.014.1.818
L44 enroute to Alaska (via ship) [view from ship of water, mountains run reflecting off water, birds, likely gulls, ship and rigging in foreground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2014.023.037
(Nellie Brown and Car)[woman dressed in 1920's semiformal attire, standing next to 1920's automobile with one foot on running board looking at the camera]
Collection: B2014.023
B2015.008.287
Beyond the brick house, April 8, 1917 [dirt road at right running past cultivated field at left, fallen fence in foreground]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.017.001
Teachers’ quarters, Eek, Alaska [exterior in winter, with storage tanks in background, small diameter pipeline running above ground in front of building]
Collection: B2015.017
B2017.020.076
[Mount Marathon racer wearing number 51 running up to automobile on street, crowd of spectators watching at finish line, 1955-1959]
Collection: B2017.020
B1990.014.2018.1.289.001
88-5 Feb 1943; Super XX Snow scene [snow on spruce trees and utility lines running to structure at far right; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1994.009.1342
Lisburne, Oct. 10, 1956. F-4. Air compressor and jack hammer used to dig ditch in frozen ground to run pipe line.
Keywords: White Alice, Cold War, communications
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B2001.041.031
No 1092 Wild Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Dry Creek HCK Nome, Alaska {3 sluice runs and two men tending the operation}
Keywords: gold mining
Collection: B2001.041 Goetze
B2001.041.031crop
No 1092 Wild Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Dry Creek HCK Nome, Alaska {3 sluice runs and two men tending the operation}
Keywords: gold mining
Collection: B2001.041 Goetze