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B1995.014.74.6
[young Alaska Native man wearing tall rubber boots and older Alaska Native man wearing plaid shirt sitting on back of flat wooden cart in wooded area]
Keywords: transportation, clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.75.13
[large group of Alaska Native women and children gathered outdoors in summer, low hills in background, probably Marshall]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.46.7
[sunrise or sunset over military base on Adak, with Quonset huts in foreground]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.46.9
[two men surveying in winter, buildings, Quonset huts, and bay in background, Adak]
Keywords: military, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1984.077.1.001
[Truck parked near canvas wall tent, fuel tanks, barrels, and road. Mountains in background.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1995.014.46.13
[bird's eye view of coastline, with gun emplacements, remnants of docks, small boats on beach, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1576.6
[winter view of Curry Hotel and Alaska Railroad depot from across Susitna River, showing pedestrian bridge, Curry buildings, and walled tents]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1610.2
P-418. Hewitt's Photo Shop [aerial of mountain and river valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.217.004
68-4 [woman sitting on boulder at shore; second woman walking in background; April 1941; likely Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.217.005
68-4 [woman sitting on boulder at shore; April 1941; likely Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.People.3.213
"People - artists - John Svensen [should be Svenson]; Aug 76; John Svenson sculpts bank panels; see also Ervine,Tapscott" [Alaska Mutual Bank]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 3
B1984.077.1.003
[Dog in dog lot behind chicken wire with front paws on a stone.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1995.014.46.12
[three men surveying in winter, storage tanks and mountains in background, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1984.077.19.033
[mining site, man, hydraulic mining, pipe, cutbank, silt, formations]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.19.035
[mining site, rock formation, marker? atop formation. Image is partially obstructed.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1995.014.45.13
[three men surveying in Aleutian Islands, buildings and storage tanks in background, Adak?]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.46.8
[sunrise or sunset over military base on Adak, with Quonset huts in foreground]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.97.14
[pigs in yard in winter, Quonset huts and water in background, Adak?]
Keywords: military, animal husbandry, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1482
45. Alaska timber wolf. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [two Alaska Native men with possible wolf-dog hybrid on chain in snowy field. name Bragaw scratched off neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.57.13
Hospital, Mountain Village, Dr. Corsell, 1935 [surgeon wearing scrubs operating on patient, nurse at left]
Keywords: health, medicine
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.1030
[automobile parked in front of three-story brick house with wood-sided addition,
1940s?]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2021.006.46
“Wife-killing trial begins for Bob Dorr” by Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News, October 12, 2006
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Trial, Murder trial, Anchorage Daily News, ADN, African Americans, Black Lives in Alaska, Black Alaskans, Alaskans
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B1989.016.1380.1
5. Alaska sled reindeer. Hewitt's Photo Shop [reindeer in harness with loaded sled. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.16
[Indigenous Alaskan mother seated with children on ground midwinter; family wearing fur parka]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Mother, Children, Toddler, Baby, Infant, Baby wearing, Parka, Fur, Clothing, Outerwear, Seated, Sitting, Outside, Winter, Snow, Ground
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1984.077.1.002
[Dog sitting in dog yard, fence made of chicken wire, doghouses in background]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.085.3
Baranof (Ship) at Seward. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.162.006
53-3 Oct. 31 Hal & Sal in cold storage; 12 sec @ f4.5; 20 sec @f9 [frozen halibut; broom(for scale); likely Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2015.008.349
George with my pet pig [George reclining in yard, petting piglet]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.986
Jack Freeman on John [young man on horseback on driveway, Dora’s nephew. Excised
from photo album]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1970.019.434
Fishing thru ice at Fire Lake. Left to right, J.J. Delaney, Alonzo Cope, A.L. Huffman. Snow has left ground but ice is still solid. 4/11/26 [three men ice fishing]
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.41.003
17-2 Ketchikan Spruce Mill fire, June 27th [1939; men in KFD jackets spray water on structure; people at top of stairway; lumber in foreground]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.41.003
17-2 Ketchikan Spruce Mill fire, June 27th [1939; men in KFD jackets spray water on structure; people at top of stairway; lumber in foreground]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.2473
"Ground; 5/30/46" [aerial view of snow, possibly ice, shoreline; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.147.6
Sydney Laurence painting, Northern lights and cabin.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.148
Sydney Laurence painting, Winter Sunset (house on beach).
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.172.006
57-3; Christmas card negatives; 90 mm [snowy street scene artwork includes Santa with gift and tag "Greetings, Basha and Ken," "Sheaffers" at top of image]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.173.001
58-1; Dec 1940; Pan X DK 20; Deer Mt. & city float from wire works dock [view looking across water at boats in harbor; structures; mountain; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018