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B2015.008.904
[person wearing parka and snowshoes with back to camera, small wooden sign in
background at right. Identified as Dora by seller]
Keywords: snow shoes, winter
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1401.1
No. 7. Hewitt's Store, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop [Hewitt's Drug Store, corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street, with automobile parked outside]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.141.005
47-3 Basha's pictures - taken with Grace & Dorothy [frog, likely May 1940, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.142.006
47-4; June; Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats next to structure; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.001
47-5 [infant sitting on woman's lap; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.002
47-5 [infant sitting on woman's lap; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.003
47-5 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structure; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.004
47-5 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structure; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.005
47-5 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.144.001
47-6 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2021.008.16
[two buildings covered in ice. Similar to .15]
Keywords: Mink, Fur Farm, Anchorage, Alaska
Collection: B2021.008 Myrtle Everett Bragaw
B1990.014.2018.1.142.002
47-4; June; Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boat in bay next to Noyes Island Fish Co; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.006
47-5 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.141.006
47-3 Basha's pictures - taken with Grace & Dorothy [frog, likely May 1940, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.144.002
47-6 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.224.006
70-2 Russian church [front view of St. Michael Cathedral, Russian Orthodox church; cannon in foreground; August 1941; Sitka]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.225.001
70-3 Russian church [front view of St. Michael Cathedral, Russian Orthodox church; cannon in foreground; August 1941; Sitka]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.670
F9 Bristol Bay fisherman, photo by H.H.H. [Herb Hilscher, same as .668, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.656
"F3 Fish wheel on the Yukon River" [same as .654b, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1974.040.033
Canneries. Toward Anchorage from Emard Cannery Dok in 1938. Present area of Gambell St. was vacant then. Old Anchorage Hotel is white building on hill to right. MV Discoverer tied up - white boat. Henry J. tender tied ahead. Tender North Cape in foreground.
Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.141.003
47-3 Basha's pictures - taken with Grace & Dorothy [scenic view of person fishing in stream, likely May 1940, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.141.004
47-3 Basha's pictures - taken with Grace & Dorothy [shadows in river or creek of three figures on a bridge, likely May 1940, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.154.001
50-4; 4 roofs on Pennock [four structures on island, one with plank ramp to door; firewood; pilings; likely 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.154.002
50-4; Sun thru smoke [smoke rising from structures, water and bird in flight in foreground; likely 1940, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.011.130
Alaska ’47 – Juneau, Rod with small king salmon (Marge Williams in foreground) [man and woman in small boat, Rod holding fish, Marge Williams holding fishing rod]
Collection: B2017.011
B1998.014.1.655
F3 Fish wheel on the Yukon River [same as .654b, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.662
F6 Drying salmon on Copper River [wood drying rack, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley