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B1989.016.256.1
Breakup at Nenana, 1940 [Nenana Ice Pool]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.256.4
Breakup at Nenana, 1940 [Nenana Ice Pool]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.4879
Cronin #5, breakup in front of dock, Nenana, 1920
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4879a
(Cronin #5 Breakup in front of dock, Nenana 1920)
Keywords: shipping, winter, ice, river
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.256.3
Breakup at Nenana, 1940 [tripod for Nenana Ice Pool]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1975.134.26e
Pavement wash-out after Lake George Breakup Dorothy Clifton
Collection: B1975.134 CIHS Collection
B1989.016.1313.1
Ice breakup, Cook Inlet. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.014.490
(490)(Edward Keogh pushing ice at breakup-Tanaina May 5 1915)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2019.003.105
Breakup [scenic of water filled with ice chunks. Double exposure]
Collection: B2019.003
B1979.002.4878
(Cronin#4 Tanana River breakup at Nenana note fish traps in ice)
Keywords: winter, river, ice
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.256.5
Tripod moving at Nenana, 1940. Photo by Charles Wilson. Breakup at Nenana.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.003.103
Anvik River during breakup [scenic of water filled with ice chunks]
Collection: B2019.003
B2006.023.5487.jpg
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Breakup on the Knik River. Photo by Wayne Burkhart.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2006.023.5487
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Breakup on the Knik River. Photo by Wayne Burkhart.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2017.024.3342
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [spring breakup scene; children play on boardwalk; structure in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3342
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [spring breakup scene; children play on boardwalk; structure in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3379
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children, girls play on boardwalk; snow; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3383
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; woman carrying child on shoulders walks on boardwalk]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3383
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; woman carrying child on shoulders walks on boardwalk]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3385
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play on boardwalk and snow; structures, snowmachines; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3387
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; girls play on boardwalk; snow; structures in background; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3399
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; two boys walk near plywood structure; Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3400
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play in doorway of wooden structure; boardwalk; Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3381
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; chldren playing on boardwalk; puddles; snow; structures; snowmachines; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3384
June 1971 [spring breakup; children, girls, play on boardwalk and snow; structure and snowmachine in background; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3386
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children, girls play on boardwalk; snow; structures; snowmachines; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.70
(catastrophe)August 9 1955) AIR Homes flooded lake George breakup on old Plamer road)(8 5525 55)
Keywords: catastrophe, flood
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2017.024.3336
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [spring breakup scene; man walking on boardwalk between piles of snow; structures, snowmachines]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3343
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [Savoonga; spring breakup scene; children on boardwalk and rooftops; snowmachines; structures, church in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3344
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [Savoonga; spring breakup scene; children on boardwalk; structures; people near umiak in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3377
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play on boardwalk next to dog sled, snowmachine, and structure; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3389
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play on and near window of structure; snowmachine; barrels in background; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3398
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; two children with bicycles on steps near structure; boardwalk; snow; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3405
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; men and children in front of structures; snowmachine; bicycle; outboard motor; Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3411
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play on bicycless and wagon on boardwalks near Savoonga Native Store]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2198.13
Lomen Bros. Nome #1138 [The break up of Snake River, Nome, 1916. people gathered on beach near buildings and boats, ice chunks being pushed onto shore. copy neg]
Keywords: breakup
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.3327
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [three men at doorway; one holding pipe, one wielding hammer; structures, spring breakup]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3397
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; two boys pose with bicycles on boardwalk; snow; structures, church in background; Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3397
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; two boys pose with bicycles on boardwalk; snow; structures, church in background; Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3406
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; men and woman on boardwalks in front of Savoonga Native Store; man carrying gasoline can]
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.014.29.12
[boardwalk along river carrying ice, with riverboat tied along shore, spring breakup flooding? Russian Mission circa 1947?]
Keywords: boats, transportation, weather
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.3269
Northern Alaska; June 1967 [view of coastal village during breakup; sea ice, pan ice; structures and boats on shore]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3334
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [spring breakup scene; children playing next to woodend swingset; smowmachine with wood sled and structures in background
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3345
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [Savoonga; spring breakup scene; children on boardwalk; men next to skiff; structures in background; sea ice]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3357
June 1971 [Savoonga spring breakup scene; man, children in front of structures; snowmachine parts; bicycles; outboard motor; dogsled]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3373
June 1971 [breakup scene; women, children gathered on boardwalks; wood structures; fish or mean hung on drying rack; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3376
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; women and children on boardwalk; two children riding a bicycle; snow banks; structures; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024