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B1989.016.169.1
Entrance to writing room, Anchorage Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's 103.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2139.1
(Native hieroglyphics, neg for cards #11) [pictorial writing system. same as .2141.24]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.459
D2 Siberian sled dog [positive image, writing is in reverse, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.169.2
Entrance to writing room, Anchorage Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's 103. [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.24
D-26 (Native hieroglyphics) [photograph of sheet of paper with pictorial writing tacked to a wall]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1972.046.19
{4 miners and dog on the banks of a river actively working a sluice box}[there is writing on the front of the image but cannot decipher}
Keywords: miners, mining
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B2022.005.180
[Indigenous Alaskan woman seated on bed writing; plants in window; possibly Yup'ik grass basket on floor]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Seated, Sitting, Bed, Bedframe, Bedroom, Room, Interior, Home, House, Writing, Write, Plants, Cactus, Lamp, Tray, Basket, Yup'ik, Grass basket, Coil basket, Coiled grass basket, Design, Geometric
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.51.002
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sits at table writing with pencil; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.51.002
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sits at table writing with pencil; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.51.003
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sits at table writing with pencil; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.51.003
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sits at table writing with pencil; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
AEC.G418
AEC G418 P.S. Hunt (hand writing on photograph is not readable) [4 horses and a driver pulling large sled loaded with supplies]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
AEC.G419
AEC G419 P.S. Hunt (hand writing on photograph is not readable) [4 horses and a driver pulling large sled loaded with supplies]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B2017.024.3448
December 1981 [winter; man wearing Prudhoe Bay cap, holding currency writes; woman at left; enclosure; northern Alaska]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.1084.9
P-238. Hewitt's (Palmer, July 3, 1936) [group of men crowded around man writing on paper, or possibly looking at map]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2065.2
(IBM offices, "Talk It Up, IBM6400") [man writing on pad at front of room filled with session attendees, early computing. circa 1962]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2065.3
(IBM offices, "Talk It Up, IBM6400") [man writing on pad at front of room filled with session attendees, early computing. circa 1962]
Keywords: computers
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1996.035.6.welcomeAboard.p1
Welcome Aboard / U.S. Naval Station Adak, Alaska / Birthplace of the Winds [1961, page 1 includes map, totem, sky writing]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B1979.002.4947
"8/22/1919 Ballaine homestead, grains, hay & spuds" [sleeve 83; agriculture, fields, straw stacks, potatoes, trees in distance; Fairbanks area; writing on neg]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.1084.3
P-232. Hewitt's (Palmer, July 3, 1936) [group of men standing around a wheelbarrow, one writing on a paper, another holding a hat - same as in .1084.2]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.017.1988.04.21
I just know I'd be right for the part in you'd let me re-write the script CHEM WASTE City Hazardous Waste Plan A Thriller Don't Call us, we'll call you. Thurs April 21, 1988
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, comics, cartoons, political
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.2018.1.51.004
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox, also Ralph Spaeth [child wearing sweater sits at table writing with pencil; while boy wearing a Lone Ranger shirt stands behind her; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.51.004
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox, also Ralph Spaeth [child wearing sweater sits at table writing with pencil; while boy wearing a Lone Ranger shirt stands behind her; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1446
S33 In-door sports, Aleutian Islands (4 in 1 pic) [service men at a card game; in bed; writing a letter, in a bar, barstools, cups, pinup posters, beer, cigars, coffee cups, Schlitz bottle.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2005.006.2
Little Diomede: Reading, writing and arithmetic are taught in the Government school; but bringing in the game from the Polar Pack and skin sewing is still more important than schooling to the future existence of these young citizens on Diomede Island. Oct. 30, 1950. Photo credit: Audrey and Frank Morgan.
Collection: B2005.006
B1998.014.1.157
A62 Fake beaver, Cliff Young's (1)Texas beaver fought its way clear to Fairbanks where it met its water loo by a local sourgdough; (2) Alaskan mammoth beaver only 5 wks old caught trying to change the course of the mighty Yukon (2 captions) [Writing on image is in reverse.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2045.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska ("Seaska" airmail non-stop flight, June 20, 1936, powered with Plymouth car engine seized by U.S. Marshal, Juneau, for non-payment of gas bill in Cordova. 1985, still stored in Juneau) [group portrait of men and women standing in front of Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe airplane parked in gymnasium, writing on plane reads in part "Seattle-Alaska Last Airmail Frontier Trail Blazed by the Seattle Washingtonians"]
Keywords: aviation, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2045.3
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska ("Seaska" airmail non-stop flight, June 20, 1936, powered with Plymouth car engine seized by U.S. Marshal, Juneau, for non-payment of gas bill in Cordova. 1985, still stored in Juneau) [bird's eye view of crowd gathered next to Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe airplane parked in gymnasium, writing on plane reads in part "Seattle-Alaska Last Airmail Frontier Trail Blazed by the Seattle Washingtonians"]
Keywords: aviation, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2045.4
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska ("Seaska" airmail non-stop flight, June 20, 1936, powered with Plymouth car engine seized by U.S. Marshal, Juneau, for non-payment of gas bill in Cordova. 1985, still stored in Juneau) [group portrait of men and women standing in front of Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe airplane parked in gymnasium, writing on plane reads in part "Seattle-Alaska Last Airmail Frontier Trail Blazed by the Seattle Washingtonians"]
Keywords: aviation, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2045.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska ("Seaska" airmail non-stop flight, June 20, 1936, powered with Plymouth car engine seized by U.S. Marshal, Juneau, for non-payment of gas bill in Cordova. 1985, still stored in Juneau) [two women holding bottle, ready to break on airplane wheel strut, group of men at right, Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe airplane parked in gymnasium, writing on plane reads in part "Seattle-Alaska Last Airmail Frontier Trail Blazed by the Seattle Washingtonians"]
Keywords: aviation, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection