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B1994.008.614.slide
(advisory committee and public hearings for land use)
Keywords: land use, meeting, public land use
Collection: B1994.008
B1994.008.616.slide
(advisory committee and public hearings for land use)
Keywords: land use, meeting, public land use
Collection: B1994.008
B1994.008.617.slide
(advisory committee and public hearings for land use)
Keywords: land use, meeting, public land use
Collection: B1994.008
B1994.008.618.slide
(advisory committee and public hearings for land use)
Keywords: public land use, meeting
Collection: B1994.008
B1994.008.620.slide
(advisory committee and public hearings for land use)
Keywords: public land use, meeting
Collection: B1994.008
B1990.014.5.Ind.11.58a
BMR Trucking. Not used for BMR
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ind
B1990.014.5.Ind.11.58b
BMR Trucking. Not used for BMR
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ind
B1990.014.5.Ind.11.58c
BMR Trucking. Not used for BMR
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ind
B1990.014.5.Ind.11.58d
BMR Trucking. Not used for BMR
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ind
B1990.014.004.28151
28151 Baleen, Once used for women's corsets. Now used to weave baskets or wall decorations
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1995.014.61.14
[two soldiers using log ladder to cross crevasses]
Keywords: hiking, mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.62.18
[two soldiers using log ladder to cross crevasses]
Keywords: hiking, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1987.056.195
[Sitka sign, Community Grindstone used by the Russian Colony in 1830]
Keywords: Russian America
Collection: B1987.056 W_T_ Roberts Album Collection
B1990.014.5.Cat.2.4
(Catastrophe)(Quality Market Fire){firemen using a water cannon to extinguish fire}
Keywords: accident scene, fire
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1979.002.5010
Type of engine used on narrow guage Tanana River to Fairbanks and Chatanika
Keywords: railroad, train, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.2018.1.24.001
8-2 Portraits of Dad using camera light [likely 1939, overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.24.001
8-2 Portraits of Dad using camera light [likely 1939, overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.24.002
8-2 Portraits of Dad using camera light [likely 1939, overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.24.002
8-2 Portraits of Dad using camera light [likely 1939, overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.24.003
8-2 Portraits of Dad using camera light [likely 1939, overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.24.003
8-2 Portraits of Dad using camera light [likely 1939, overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.24.004
8-2 Portraits of Dad using camera light [likely 1939, overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.24.004
8-2 Portraits of Dad using camera light [likely 1939, overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.61.15
[two soldiers using log ladder to cross crevasses, mountains in distance]
Keywords: military, mountaineering, hiking
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.61.16
[two soldiers using log ladder to cross crevasses, mountains in distance]
Keywords: hiking, mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.62.15
[two soldiers using log ladder to cross crevasses, mountains in distance]
Keywords: hiking, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1983.091.C8070.1
The exhibit cases were used into early 1980's for temporary exhibits Anch. Museum WVH Original entrance (south) on right; eastern most gallery on left. used for temp. exh.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1979.002.Album.Type.Engine.Nenana
Rail across the ice at Nenana showing type of Locomotive used Dec. 11, 1921
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1994.022.820
(Mt McKinley National Park 1930)(sheep)[poorly exposed negative nothing visible of use]
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.831
(Mt McKinley National Park 1930)(sheep)[poorly exposed negative nothing visible of use]
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1995.014.40.13
[hiker wearing pack using walking stick to balance on log across rushing creek]
Keywords: hiking, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.023.062
(People in Boat)(three women seated in row boat with a man in background using oar)
Collection: B2014.023
B2017.024.2214
King Island. [man using knife to cut walrus head on ice, 1960s]
Collection: B2017.024
B2016.019.3.16.05352.03
Computer worker using architectural C.A.D. computer [Alaskan Workers - Computer Technicians], 1986
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaskan Workers, Computer Technicians, CAD
Collection: B2016.019
B1962.x.015.027
[from verso:] Alaska Highway. Dozens of streams and lakes both large and small, had to be spanned as theroad progressed. Practically every type of timber structure was used to provide a crossing, but the type most often used was the timber trestle bridge. This photo shows a trestle bridge during construction and illustrates the use of the timber immediately adjacent to the bridge site. [1942-1943]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1990.014.2018.1.236.005
[72-5; Sitka; August 1941; two boys fishing from rocks using wooden poles]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.72.15
Cabin the mailman used to own [man standing outside log cabin, two large tents at left]
Keywords: military, camping, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B2016.004.278
[Craig George riding Skidoo Elan snowmachine without using his hands; print date May 80]
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.024.2267
Kotzebue, June 1967 [man using ax to chop ice at shore; water, mountains in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1996.009.11bfull
taken the shavings made in the dance house from the whittling of new paddles, made a fire of them, then using the ashes to sprinkle over the path used by the crew and boat to add luck to them and to fly into the nostrils of evil spirits & so retard them.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride 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
B1979.002.6356
Loco Steam (#557) "557" used for last time in shuttle service Nenana flood June 1962
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.Album.Engine.Narrow.Gauge
Type of Engine used on Narrow Gauge Tanana River to Fairbanks & Chatanika Dec 11, 1921
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.732
"Bingles" used by colonists at Palmer, Alaska. 72. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [coins from Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: money
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.64.4
[soldier using field radio while standing next to large white tent being erected in wooded area]
Keywords: military, communications, camping
Collection: B1995.014
B1997.003.022
[moving building using continuous-track vehicle, bulldozer; two men, tracks in tundra, Bucyrus-Erie]
Collection: B1997.003