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B2022.005.41
[Driver and passenger traveling by dogsled midwinter]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Driver, Passenger, Sled, Dogsled, Dog team, Dog, Dogs, Travel, Transportation, Winter, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1978
(Seward highway) [truck travelling south on the Seward highway towards Girdwood]
Keywords: transportation, caro, Turnagin Arm, railroad
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1980.2
(Seward highway) [car travelling south on the Seward highway towards Girdwood]
Keywords: transportation, Turnagin Arm, cars, railroad, highway
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.735.6
New Alaska winter transportation [men around Travel Air airplane on skis]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.878
Chitistone Divide [pack train traveling through pass. Poor quality print]
Keywords: pack horse
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.735.3
Russ Merrill's plane on the park strip [Travel Air C-194 airplane with skis]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.460
D3 Alaskan travel by dog team "Ed Holm's dog team" [copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1985.027.2683
tourism - musk oxen [four musk oxen, one person on snowmachine, travel acress the snow]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1989.016.2304.3
(Mountain scenery along Cook Inlet) [Alaska Railroad train traveling along Turnagain Arm]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2304.5
(Mountain scenery along Cook Inlet) [Alaska Railroad train traveling along Turnagain Arm]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.735.2
Anchorage, Alaska [Travel Air C-194 airplane, "Anchorage No. 1" with Russ Merrill. cf. B1965.002.16]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.002.86
Cleary Creek women in traveling costume [two women with baby in sled, one pulling and one pushing]
Keywords: transportation, clothing
Collection: B2016.002
B2017.023.162
City Hall Haines, Alaska (C) 43 Ordway, Civilian travel control; Military police [buildings]
Collection: B2017.023
B2015.008.695
234.1. End of Lowell Glacier. Traveling on moraine. 9.14.14 [view up glacier valley,
climber standing at left]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, mountaineering, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.004.17877
While a state ferry may travel in severe wind, oil tankers are restricted. Valdez. Photographer's number: 17877. Feb 13, 1979.
Keywords: transportation, ferries, weather
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2008.014.Government Station
The government station & school, carpenter shop in rear....stakes in foreground are to chain sled dogs to.... our own or those of travelers. Kulukak, Alaska
Collection: B2008.014
B2015.008.1227
98. Count Prozor (Russian Minister) & his daughter Else, with whom I was travelling. Hotel garden at Asunción [man and woman posed outdoors]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.187.1
The Discoverer [fishing boat, possibly on Knik Arm of Cook Inlet, with float plane in foreground, Travel Air S-6000B NC628H]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2304.4
(Mountain scenery along Cook Inlet) [Alaska Railroad train traveling along Turnagain Arm, view from top of train car?]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.462
D3 Alaskan travel by dog team "Ed Holm's dog team" [possible copy neg; flipped version of .460, .461]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.530
D28 Arctic Traveler [dog sled team, musher with pipe, mountains in distance, same location as neg .514, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.494
"D14 Dog team, Seppala's, Kodachrome" [sled dog team, musher traveling up a hill, buildings in backround, black and white image]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.013.12
Anchorage Hangar and plane's. Bragaw Photographer's numbers 13A, C193. [Anchorage Air Transport hangar, Travel Air 4000, Anchorage Park Strip]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.14.5.Animals.24.005
Animals: reindeer, copy reindeer team. [Three reindeer attached to sleds, two people on one sled, two people standing, snow, winter, travel.]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Animals
B1989.016.1880.31
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.629
Frank Morgan photo "E48 Diomede Is from ship" [people in two boats traveling toward Diomede, shore, structures in background, motor, oars, tow rope; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.079a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [steamship traveling through ice floes; people on deck and in rigging; hand colored; debris is encased in the slide]
Collection: B2018.023
B1957.007.2
[Russ Merrill's Travel Air C-194 airplane with floats on mud flats, man with camera on flats, pilot in cockpit, two other men by tail, Anchorage Air Transport Inc.]
Collection: B1959.x_001 Government Hill Housing Projects / B1957_007 Russel Hyde Merrill Papers
B1989.016.1880.28
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher with bib #4 traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.29
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher with bib #8 traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.30
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher with bib #3 traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.32
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher with bib #9 traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.33
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher with bib #6 traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.34
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher with bib #7 traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.079b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: steamship traveling through ice floes; people on deck and in rigging; hand colored; debris is encased in the slide]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.1.25.2B
1964 Earthquake - General; Anchorage Earthquake Damage: Much very good stuff; March 27, 1964 [men and women visiting the Earthquake Branch of Matanuska Valley Bank located in travel trailers]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1998.014.1.282
B52 Roadhouses and ARC Camps are always welcomed after many miles of travel without seeing any signs of human habitation. Above is Paxson's Lodge, mid-way on the Richardson Highway. PH-5 (1948) [cabins, hillside, road]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2014.019.07
Planes at Spenard [Woodley Airways airplanes with skis parked at Lake Spenard in winter, Curtiss-Wright Sedan 6-B in foreground with tail number NC14975, possibly Travel Air S-6000-B NC432W in background]
Collection: B2014.019
B1998.014.1.1174
O35 Nenana - where rail and river boat meet [copy neg; people, passengers, walking between railroad track and dock, riverboat "Yukon" woman standing on tracks, likely photographing travelers, luggage, hat box, crane, deck chairs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.152
[Four people with suit cases seated on the front steps of house]
Keywords: luggage, travel
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B2014.023.186
(airplanes)[two women passengers infront of the prop of an airplane]
Keywords: flight, travel
Collection: B2014.023
B1957.007.9
(Russ Merrill's Travel Air 7000 (he was killed in this plane) on the right Noel Wien's Stinson Detroiter (Wien Alaska Airways), taken at Fairbanks) [Anchorage Air Transport plane with "Anchorage No. 1" painted on side, crowd standing in front of planes at Weeks Field]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1959.x_001 Government Hill Housing Projects / B1957_007 Russel Hyde Merrill Papers
B1962.x.015.002
Pioneer Rd. – This photo shows the 1st rough pioneer road on the Alcan Highway during its
construction days in World War II. Later this rough road was to become a smoothly graveled
highway traveled by thousands of tourists. [US Army photograph] [1942-1943]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1998.014.1.619
E40 On the Alaska Hiway "Alaska Highway Travelers; Native & Dogs; Frank Morgan photo" Man wearing leather jacket, cap, glasses, decorative belt poses on hill on gravel road, restraining two dogs carrying packs, chains, tree stumps in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.417
4th Ave looking west from B St [Fourth Avenue street scene in winter, with pedestrians, automobiles, and signs for businesses including City Mike’s Hotel, Willow Creek Bus Line, Arcade, Hotel Traveler, Terminal Hotel, Hotel Lane, Davis Liquor Store, Anchorage Dairy, N. Salo Shoe Repairing, circa 1945]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1824
(T125 Fairbanks, Downtown) [street scene, men, women, children, military servicemen, dog at left; automobiles, businesses: Arthur S. Brown, Jeweler & Optometrist; EP. McCarron Lawyer, Griffin’s photos, music, Gifts, Model Café, Carr’s, Kuppenheimer Clothes, Fairbanks Bar, Drugs, Riverside Bar, (?) Photo, Liquor, Pantorium Lacey St, Miner, Lavery’s, optometrist, Quality Liquors, Anderson’s, Mecca Bar, Waechter Meats, Empress, Travel, Co-op drugs, Café, Bayes (?); flags hung over street stoplight]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley