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B2015.008.153
2513(92914)(noon)(Trees overthrown by waves and icebergs)
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.139
2479(92914)(9am)(Skiff being washed into rocks by wave)
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B1972.032.060
[men and women seated at a table outdoors, some waving]
Collection: B1972.032 Dorothy Surgenor
B2009.017.1990.03.018
What technique does exxon propose for cleaning? A wave motion
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, cartoons, comics, political, exxon valdez, evos
Collection: B2009.017
B2014.023.275
(paintings, mckinley horizontal, wave and more)[photograph of painting]
Keywords: landscape, painting
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.276
(paintings, mckinley horizontal, wave and more)[photograph of painting]
Keywords: landscape, painting
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.278
(paintings, mckinley horizontal, wave and more)[photograph of painting]
Keywords: landscape, painting
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.279
(paintings, mckinley horizontal, wave and more)[photograph of painting]
Keywords: landscape
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.280
(paintings, mckinley horizontal, wave and more)[photograph of painting]
Keywords: landscape, painting
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.282
(paintings, mckinley horizontal, wave and more)[photograph of painting]
Keywords: landscape, painting
Collection: B2014.023
B1995.014.3.16
[waves and surf crashing on rocky beach, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.249.004
76-2 Waves on beach [likely Knudson Cove; February 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.249.005
76-2 Waves on beach [likely Knudson Cove; February 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.249.006
76-2 Waves on beach [likely Knudson Cove; February 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1986.004.0193
Col. O.F. Ohlsen Gen. Mgr. Alaska Railroad waves to the colonists
Collection: B1986.004 Odsather Collection
B2022.005.168
[Blurry image of young Indigenous Alaskan child waving at the viewer; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Child, Toddler, Waving, Wave, Buildings, Structures, Church, Community, Village
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.249.001
76-2 Waves thru rocks at Knudsen's [sic: Knudson] Cove [February 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.249.002
76-2 Waves thru rocks at Knudsen's [sic: Knudson] Cove [February 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.249.003
76-2 Waves thru rocks at Knudsen's [sic: Knudson] Cove [February 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1997.023
[seismogram recording of seismic wave data as recorded on March 27,1964 at 19:40 in Anchorage, Alaska]
Keywords: earthquake, seismic activity, seismometer, earthquake waves, Good Friday
Collection: B1997.023
B2014.023.281
(paintings, mckinley horizontal, wave and more)[photograph of Jeanne standing before large landscape painting]
Keywords: landscape, painting, art
Collection: B2014.023
B2015.008.666a
222.9 [glacier terminus]
.666b – 222.9. An iceberg laden wave from ice falling off the front of this 100 ft. face of
Harvard Glacier, a wave that made it hard for our 20 ft. dory which had just landed us here
Keywords: tidal glacier, Prince William Sound, glacier, College Fiord
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.666b
222.9 [glacier terminus]
.666b – 222.9. An iceberg laden wave from ice falling off the front of this 100 ft. face of
Harvard Glacier, a wave that made it hard for our 20 ft. dory which had just landed us here
Keywords: tidal glacier, Prince William Sound, glacier, College Fiord
Collection: B2015.008
B1997.003.172
[lumber, timber on ship deck, chains, plank walkway, ladders, ship rigging, whitecaps, waves]
Collection: B1997.003
B1998.014.1.2239
"Pribilof seal" [Sea lions gathered on rocky shore; additional sea lions in water, waves]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.019.1.01e.08693.05
Waves on rocky shoreline, Smith Island, P.W.S., Alaska, [Alaska Cities - Prince William Sound], c. 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Cities, Prince William Sound, Smith Island, Waves
Collection: B2016.019
B1989.016.2199.2
The Storm. Lomen Bros. Nome, Alaska. #73 [Small sail boat, caught in waves breaking along the shore. copy neg]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2199.4
[Small sail boat, caught in waves breaking along the shore. Possibly same vessel as in Lomen Bros. #73. copy neg]
Keywords: transportation, ships
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2052.2
(Star Airlines Calendar picture) [illustration of musher with dog team waving to Star Airlines Beech 17 Staggerwing in flight. copy neg]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2052.3
(Star Airlines Calendar picture) [illustration of musher with dog team waving to Star Airlines Beech 17 Staggerwing in flight. vertical. copy neg]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1997.019.09full
...who makes a fire of the shavings, saved from the making of the canoe paddles, using the ashes to sprinkle over the path and also to throw into the sea to pacify the spirits of wind and waves.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.068
Scn 10669, CPS; Linda Chavis at Portage Glacier; 20 July 1968; glacier. [woman posed sitting on rock in lake, waving, icebergs, glacier]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.2046.4
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska (Early Alaska Pilots, McGee and Star Airways) [woman wearing aviator's cap and goggles waving from cockpit of small airplane]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.080
Scn 10329; Jane Haycock [actually Haycraft], Miss Alaska 1968; 20 July 1968; Glacier. [woman wearing shorts, headscarf, camera posed on rock in lake, waving; icebergs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1998.014.1.051
A20 Wolf & cabin; keeping the wolf from the door the Alaskan way; made in Fairbanks 1939 (Sevarmer’s wolf) woman’s name forgotten [woman at door waving broom; wolf on porch]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.185
[Being Sea][faded photo of sea scape]
Keywords: waves, ocean
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1989.016.2197.9
The parade, Nome, Alaska, July 4th 1918. [automobile filled with flag-waving children passing U.S. Coast Guard boathouse and Miners and Merchants Cafe. Lomen Bros. photographers. copy neg, original caption cropped out of image]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.005a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto [Baltimore?] [Caption:] "In the far north, one mile out. On Behring [sic: Bearing] Sea, Nome, Alaska" [label] "42" [men, women, children pose on jumbled sea ice; dogs, dogsled, skis, parkas, woman waves an American flag]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.005c
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto [Baltimore?] [Caption] "In the far north, one mile out. On Behring [sic: Bearing] Sea, Nome, Alaska" [label] "42" [verso view of slide: men, women, children pose on jumbled sea ice; dogs, dogsled, skis, parkas, woman waves an American flag]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.005b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto [Baltimore?] Caption: "In the far north, one mile out. On Behring [sic: Bearing] Sea, Nome, Alaska" [lablel] "42" [image of slide, including decorative border; men, women, children pose on jumbled sea ice; dogs, dogsled, skis, parkas, woman waves an American flag]
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.2005.1
5 foot Bore Tide, Turnagain Arm, Alaska (The Bore Tide, Turnagin Arm, 1955)(8x10)
Keywords: waves, bore tide, ocean, Turnagain Arm
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection