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B2008.013.97a
[village scene, buildings and boardwalk at left, beach and docks on right, mountains in distance]
Collection: B2008.013
B1984.077.10.008
[Airplane nose, propeller, stepladder, table. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.38.9
Demolition after 27 March 1964 8.7 magn earthquake. Mostly of the McCutcheon Bldg. No Print.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1995.014.100.10
[surveyor at work, military base in background, water and mountains in distance, Adak]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.68.3
Anchorage Army base [exterior of chapel]
Keywords: military, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1984.077.8.023
[A bear feeds on garbage, trash barrels, stove. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.4.3
(catastrophe)(wreck of the SS Yukon near Seward)
Keywords: ship, ship wreck, shipping
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.4.4
(catastrophe)(wreck of the SS Yukon near Seward)
Keywords: ship, shipping, ship wreck
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1997.003.200
[man standing near water, possible mine tailings; water in distance]
Collection: B1997.003
B2004.011.Hoffman.Frank.neg2
[two men and woman on dirt road next to automobile]
Collection: B2004.011 Bagoy
B2014.023.008
(Jeanne and Birch Bark)[woman sitting on ground holding birch bark and board]
Keywords: woman, trees, forest, portrait
Collection: B2014.023
B2017.023.180
[Service men in bar (possibly NCO club), one points to insignia on sergeant; artwork on bar wall: jeep with soldiers, iglloos, mountains, northern lights]
Collection: B2017.023
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.8
House a fire
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.9
Tudor firemen at Scotty McDaniel's burning house
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.10
Earthquake damage Anchorage March 27, 1964 Inlet Hotel. 4th at L St.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1995.010.3376
[portrait of three young Alaska Native children, two holding Mac’s Foto balloons, Northern Commercial Company store in background, Tanana. Cf. .3197]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.100.5
[distant view of pigs in yard next to outbuildings, mountains in distance, Adak]
Keywords: animal husbandry, animals, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.63.13
[log cabin in winter, with skis, snowshoes, and sleds out front]
Keywords: transportation, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.63.7
[soldiers on sled being pulled by snowmachine, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: transportation, military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.70.15
[soldier squatting next to camp fire in wooded area, Eugene Tetinek? tent at right]
Keywords: military, camping
Collection: B1995.014
B1997.003.091
[Two airplanes on the ground; truck nearby, men next to plane; image taken from inside an automobile]
Collection: B1997.003
B2017.007.049b
April 26, 1964 [construction workers making repairs between buildings across street from Alaska Sales & S ervice, 3rd Avenue and E Street]
Collection: B2017.007
B2022.005.165
[Indigenous Alaskan man fishing from shoreline; additional people fishing in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Man, Fishing, Fisher, Fishing pole, Pole, Rode, Shoreline, Shore
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2017.024.2372
Kotzebue, June 1967 [man wearing coveralls and cap possibly at Kotzebue dock; boats in background, one is "Wenaha."]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.217.002
68-4 [toddler standing in crib; April 1941; likely Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.010.319
[two handcars or velocipedes next to track in foreground, McKinley Park Hotel in distance]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.30.19
[riverboats and barges tied to shore, possibly Yukon River near Russian Mission?]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.60.7
Army boat that took men to Redoubt [men seated on deck, bluffs in distance]
Keywords: military, boats
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.70.14
[two shirtless soldiers and one soldier wearing broad-brimmed hat and carrying walking stick crossing high meadow, mountain peaks in background]
Keywords: mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.94.1
[soldier posed with snow gauge in field in summer, mountain in background, photographer's shadow in foreground, Adak?]
Keywords: photography, winter
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.609
(121_12 Panoramic with 122_1_ Mt Blackburn from base camp 6th day_ 122_1 Panoramic with 121_12 Mt Blackburn 6am and Mr Barrett wasing in glacial pool 6th day)
Keywords: glacier, Mt Blackburn, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.017.236
Erle Esmailka throwing salmon in a bucket, Austin Esmailka Jr. spearing fish from boat, Dolly Solomon and Hazel Olson at table. Laurie and Jason Saunders watching at right. Kaltag [women and children working on beach, church in background.]
Collection: B2017.017
B2017.024.2290
Kotzebue, June 1967 [two children on jumbled ice; metal bucket. At AFN 2022, children identified as brothers Kirk Howarth on the left and Aqpik Howarth on the right]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Kotzebue, Ice, Metal bucket, Kirk Howarth, Aqpik Howarth
Collection: B2017.024
B1970.019.380
Jack Isom (died 1925) "Tarantular Jack" & the bear he killed June 10/18. I was along with him at the time. My dog Dick lying down to left. [man holding rifle sitting with bear carcass and two dogs outside walled tent]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection