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B1983.091.S4176.4
Anchorage International Airport, tower in distance.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1995.014.102.13
[man wearing mosquito netting standing on end of sluice box, drag line in background, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1995.014
B2009.037.046
[same woman with scarf posing against a building]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B2017.007.077b
[damageto McLain’s Camera Center, with Westward Hotel in background. Has print]
Collection: B2017.007
B1998.014.1.482
D9 Leonard Seppala and team "1 print" [copy neg, dogs resting in snow, sled, musher, similar to .81]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.481
D9 L Seppala and team "Seppala dog team; 1 print; 3 negs." sled dogs resting in snow, sled, musher]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.106.20
[village buildings as seen across expanse of water, possibly Yukon River]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.38.15
[snowmachine pulling men and packs up slope, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: transportation, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.86.8
[Alaska Native man and woman seated outdoors working on covering boat frame, entrance to barabara in background, Russian Mission? 1930s?]
Keywords: boats, transportation, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.86.9
[bird's eye view of army base in winter, motor pool in center, mountains in background]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.002.843
[view from ferry of unidentified village, Inside Passage; print date Sep 71]
Collection: B2014.002
B1989.016.1903.16
(Dairy herd) [man with cows in pasture in foreground and in fenced pen, with farm outbuildings and mountains in distance, Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: animal husbandry, agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2227.11
(Eklutna Industrial School) [building complex with road in center, small animal hutch at left, clothesline at center, mountains at left]
Keywords: education
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2094
W7 Alaskan winter "1946 postcard (log house)" copy neg; same as .2093]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.1026c
33 acres. Class 4 [With stamp of Mrs. Dora Keen Handy, Spec. Agt.]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1502.4
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (McGee Airways, Kenneth Neese) [pilot in fur parka and mukluks standing next to airplane with skis in winter]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2226
Alaska, Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year [Christmas card mat with sketch of trees and holly leaves with photograph of two sleds outside roadhouse. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2227.10
(Eklutna Industrial School) [two multi-story wood-frame buildings and boardwalk, two children sitting on boardwalk at left near clothesline, mountains in background]
Keywords: education
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.003.21
[unidentified town in south east Alaska or Canada]
Keywords: buildings
Collection: B2014.003
B2015.008.1027b
1027a-b – [view from lawn through trees to fields, flowers in foreground. 2 copies]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1108.20
P-89. Hewitt's (Buildings in early Palmer) [two-story wood frame building under construction, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1108.21
P-355. 8/7/36. Hewitt's (ARRC Buildings in early Palmer) [people, automobiles, buses outside building, garage? Water tower behind. Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.004.25425
(Pipeliners called this area top of the world line decends into Phelan Creek)(25425)
Keywords: pipeline, mountains
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2131.3
(Anchorage harbor, top of Westward, July 28, 1964) [bird's eye view from Anchorage Westward Hotel roof of railroad yards and Port of Anchorage with cannery buildings, ships, Cook Inlet in distance]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.528
"Newtok 12/65 Dup." [three children play with puppies in snow outside sod structure; parkas; In 2019 child in center identified as Tommy Asuluk]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.1308
O90 Alaskan children earning extra money gatering ice worms, popular bait for fur fishing. Ice worms are righ in hair raising vitamins. [copy neg; same as .1307; printed in reverse]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1530
(S91 Ft Richardson, Flag staff & Skyline Service Club) [copy neg, similar to .1528]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1107.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Independence Mine)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1164.1
[man outside Christian church in Palmer]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2227.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Eklutna Industrial School, No. 3L, #12) [two wood-frame buildings and boardwalk]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.012.92
[man wearing hat, striped pants, and lace-up boots laying on couch smoking tobacco or opium pipe in wallpapered room, newspaper box mounted on wall at left, map of Bristol Bay on wall at right next to door]
Keywords: clothing, tobacco, residences
Collection: B2014.012
B1989.016.1108.17
P-84. Hewitt's (Homes in early Palmer) [wood frame house, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.3032
[person wearing rain gear standing in front of log building with sign “Roadhouse Wines Liquors & Cigars”]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.74.12
[man laying on rocky bank to drink out of small creek]
Keywords: mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1164.2
P-580. United Protestant Church, Palmer, Alaska. Rev. B.J. Bingle. Hewitt's Photo Shop [log building in birch trees]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2047.3.9
(US Air Force airplane down in Cook Inlet, January 30, 1957) [Douglas C-124C Globemaster II in water. 35mm neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2073.15
(Anchorage Houses, Nov. 1964, 12th and S, Yale and Stanford, Columbia and Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge) [single level wood frame home, winter, with two automobiles in driveway and Cook Inlet in background]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1107.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Independence Mine)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.875
P-70. Hewitt's (Hayfield) [field in foreground, homestead in back, Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection