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B1989.016.723
Boy collects potatoes [Matanuska Valley?]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.38
D-52 [woman wearing kuspuk seated indoors]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1096.9
P-166. Hewitt's (Wood craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [dressers]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1096.7
P-164. Hewitt's (Wood craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [desk with drawers, small bench, dresser]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.19
D-19 [man and woman in parkas and mukluks standing in dog yard on tundra, houses and frozen ocean in background]
Keywords: villages, houses, residences, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.239.9
Fur Rendezvous at Anchorage, Alaska, No. 9. Hewitt's Photo Shop. P.A.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.240.2
Hewitt's Photo, P-482B. Fair Exhibit, Palmer.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.4.001
Fritzie [child playing with bubbles; fireplace in background; rug; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.4.001
Fritzie [child playing with bubbles; fireplace in background; rug; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1096.8
P-165. Hewitt's (Wood craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [drawers]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1097.2
P-172. Hewitt's (Sewing craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [afghan]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1096.6
P-163b. Hewitt's (Wood craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [table with clocks, lamp]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1097.1
P-168. Hewitt's (Sewing craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [scarves, mittens, socks]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.764.6
P-449B. Hewitt's Photo (Farm animals, Matanuska Valley) [boy with horse]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.764.7
P-454. The Matanuska Valley Fair, 9/7/36. Hewitt's Photo, Anchorage [boy with calf covered with blanket reading Midnight Sun 4-H Club, Matanuska Maid, Palmer]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.1
P-486. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [quilt display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.12
P-500. Hewitt's Photo (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [Handicrafts Department display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.5
P-493. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1925.3
(Fur Rondy 1952, snow dumping) [truck depositing snow on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage under Fur Rendezvous sign, with 4th Avenue Theater in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.764.8
P-454B. The Matanuska Valley Fair, 9/7/36. Hewitt's Photo, Anchorage [boy with calf covered with blanket reading Midnight Sun 4-H Club, Matanuska Maid, Palmer]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.10
P-498. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.764.9
P-455. The Matanuska Valley Fair, 9/7/36. Hewitt's Photo, Anchorage [boy with horse]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.2
P-487. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.3
P-488. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts and canning display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1997.019.17full
herders leave their fawns to sleep and grow
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1989.016.765.11
P-499. Hewitt's Photo (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [quilt display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.547
Newtok school house; duplicate [corner of structure; steel drums (containers); ladder]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2022.005.40
[Indigenous Alaskan girl and young woman seated on either side of breastfeeding mother; fur parka likely reindeer; mother and girl wearing beaded jewelry]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Child, Girl, Young woman, Woman, Mother, Toddler, Family, Breastfeeding, Parka, Reindeer, Fur, Hide, Mukluks, Seated, Clothing, Footwear, Jewelry, Beadwork, Beads, Necklace, Bracelet
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1457
46. Eating whale blubber. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [small boy eating muktuk. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.4
P-490. Hewitt's Photo (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [Mountain View Homemakers' Club display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.012.207
1955 Fur Rendezvous [musher with dog team on trail, World Championship Sled Dog Races. b&w negative]
Keywords: dogsledding, Anchorage
Collection: B2015.012
TV.202.3.1
(Eskimos of Wainwright Alaska Senungatuk of U of A Fairbanks and Weir and Mrs Negovanna)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.2058.24
Alaska, Season's Greetings (Christmas Cards 1939, Mr. Lee) [Christmas card mat with sketch of cache and holly leaves, with photograph of man carving at workbench, Eklutna Vocational School. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.64
D-83 [woman wearing mittens and fur parka with geometric decoration standing outdoors in winter, back to camera. same parka as in .2141.63]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Home.2.036
14244; Home; A frame; Trappers; April, 1963 [view of snow-covered lake with structure under construction in foreground; broom]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Home
B1989.016.2058.21
Alaska, Greetings from the Northland (Christmas Cards 1939) [Christmas card mat with sketch of totem pole and holly leaves, with photograph of three Alaska Native children. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1996.009.04full
Seal skins filled with air are used as rollers under the boat as it is taken over the rough ice hummocks to the open waters of Bering Straits. They are then made fast to the thong attached to harpoon point and used as buoys to the dead whale.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B1991.011.536
Newtok; playing cards, a favorite game wtih many Eskimos [woman playing card while another woman holding infant looks on; duplicate; women identified as Agnes Tommy (on left) and Josephine Asuluk (on right]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.1367
PT3 Juneau, the capitol city, is headquarters for many territorial and federal agencies. Lumber mills, gold mining, fishing and canneries make this a prosperous community. (view from Mt) [view from Douglas Island, overlooking Juneau, Gastineau Channel, AJ mine, possibly tailings]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1991.011.537
"Playing cards - a favorite pastime Newtok; 11/66" [a woman plays solitaire while another woman holding a baby stands nearby; interior of dwelling; possibly bunks in background]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2015.008.120
2449(92514)(1030am)(Cascade Glacier)(from C)
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1778
(Central Office Building, Anchorage [automobiles parked outside building with signs for businesses including City Bank of Anchorage, Betty Faris Apparel, Title Guaranty Trust Co., Fuller Paints, The Yardstick, Grover & Grover Public Accountants]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1917
T167 4th Ave. Anchorage (from McKinley Bldg, May 1953) [similar to .1915]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley