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B1990.014.5.EQ.17.10
Alley by Inlet Hotel Rooter breaks frost after earthquake. Is now the 4 & L parking lot.
Keywords: damaged buildings, power lines, cars
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1989.016.1981.2
(Dog Races on Golf Course 1948) [dogs resting on the line]
Keywords: dogs, mushing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1126.2
(Vic Brown's store, watch) [gold watch with initials E.C.F. on band, J. Vic Brown and Sons Jewelers, Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.694
233.6. 9.13.14 [two climbers negotiating crevasses, Dora at left. Published in “First
exploration of the Harvard Glacier, Alaska” (1915) with caption: “On a narrow ice bridge
between deep crevasses, exploring the Harvard Glacier. Note the heavy packs. Miss Keen in
the rear”]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, mountaineering, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.683
F15 Ketchikan, Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan, "Unloading herring, 1949 post card" [same as .681, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.347
#56. Northwestern, Juneau, Alaska. Winter & Pond Co. Hewitt's Photo Shop [ship encased in ice. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1349
PF6 Brailing herring at a Ketchikan dock. Frank Morgan photo. [fish in net is pulled from the water, fishermen, children, boats, buoys]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.301
Where we slaved evenings [house interior, George in profile in foreground, seated at desk reading, second desk in background, framed expedition photographs on wall]
Collection: B2015.008
B2019.003.106
Anvik in winter [bird’s eye view of river from bluff, riverboat and skiff on bank]
Collection: B2019.003
B1990.014.004.07356
07356 Eskimo readies whale harpoon
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.nophotono
Keywords: no photo no., Young of polar bear killed by Eskimo hunters: Chukchi Sea
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.1127.1
[Friedman's Jewelers, exterior, night, with neon sign, Anchorage?]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.681
F15 Ketchikan, Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan "F14 Brailing herring" [unloading salmon from purse seine; buoy line, people watching, boat in background, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.682
F14 Unloading Alaskan herring, photo by Frank Morgan, "Brailing herring" [same as .681, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2025
Mt. View Road, Anchorage, Alaska. T241 [Mountain View businesses and automobiles, including Gateway Service; Mt View Cleaners and Washaroo; Mt View Shoe Repairing; Sunset Trailer Park directional sign]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
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
B1989.016.2065.6
(IBM offices, "Talk It Up, IBM6400") [woman and man in office, with desks and filing cabinets, early computing. circa 1962]
Keywords: computers
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.009
(Lake Kenai-mile 20){several cabins and log piles on the shore of Kenai Lake}
Keywords: cabin, lake, Kenai
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.2018.1.161.006
52-4 Mrs. Ohasi [sic: Ohashi] & Hope in native dress [Homatsu Ohashi poses wearing kimono and obi; Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.161.007
52-4 Mrs. Ohasi [sic: Ohashi] & Hope in native dress [Homatsu Ohashi poses wearing kimono and obi; Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.161.008
52-4 Mrs. Ohasi [sic: Ohashi] & Hope in native dress [Homatsu Ohashi poses wearing kimono and obi; Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.161.009
52-4 Mrs. Ohasi [sic: Ohashi] & Hope in native dress [Homatsu Ohashi poses in profile wearing kimono; Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.162.001
53-3 Oct. 31 Hal & Sal in cold storage; 12 sec @ f4.5; 20 sec @f9 [frozen halibut and salmon; likely Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.30.001
12-2 Fischbein & Phillips in Fishhouse [interior views of two men wearing suits stand next to salmon and ice spread across floor; man on left displays salmon; carts; tables; NEFCO, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.30.001
12-2 Fischbein & Phillips in Fishhouse [interior views of two men wearing suits stand next to salmon and ice spread across floor; man on left displays salmon; carts; tables; NEFCO, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.162.002
53-3 Oct. 31 Hal & Sal in cold storage; 12 sec @ f4.5; 20 sec @f9 [frozen halibut and salmon; likely Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.225.002
70-3 Main St of Sitka [Street scene including signs for Rainier Beer, Dentist, Montgomery Ward Order Office, Sitka Inn boarding house, Tilson Liquor Store front view of St. Michael Cathedral, Russian Orthodox church; people on sidewalks; boy with bicycle at left; automobiles; August 1941; Sitka]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2015.015.02
Miniature Photographs [by] G.W. Bartholomew, Wallingford, Conn. Grandpa Simons, dad’s dad [studio portrait]
Collection: B2015.015
B1998.014.1.1329
PA1 The Aleutian Islands, a chain of volcanos and emerging mountain tops that spot the sea for nearly a thousand miles beyond the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. (Emerging Mt. Tops) [volcano in center of imags, water, mountains in background, snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.021.215
Anchorage, 6-20-53 [low aerial of Bootlegger’s Cove neighborhood and Cook Inlet, military housing on west end of park strip at right, Point Woronzof at left, Mount Spurr and Tordrillo Mountains in distance]
Collection: B2018.021
B2022.001.145
Letter and enclosure to E&S Diversified Services from State of Alaska Department of Labor, Administrative Services Division, signed by Holly Stinson, Labor Economist, April 21, 1993
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Letter, Enclosure, E&S Diversified Services, State of Alaska, SOA< Department of Labor, DOL, Administrative Services Division, Holly Stinson
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1990.014.3.1305
South of Little Tonsina River crossing. May 1975 9280
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.3
B1998.014.1.865
L66 Along an Alaskan hiway (1946 postcard) [copy neg; same as .864]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1929
T173 Anchorage - Palmer Hiway thru Mt. View (Mt View, Bragaw St) [street scene, automobiles; businesses: Gateway Service 76 gas station, Used Car Sales, PIggly Wiggly, possibly Sears, Grocery, possibly motel; moutains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1282
O82 Flower growing, pioneer wagon, Seward, Alaska [delivery wagon in meadow, wording on side: "Alaska; tel; Coal, (see .1283 for complete wording)]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1292
O85 Anchorage's first circus parade, July 1954 (July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus; [scene looking northeast as parade approaches; women riding elephants, man walking; spectators on street and rooftops, men, women, children; businesses: Mona Lee's Ladies' Apparel, OK Cleaners, Hamms Beer, Van's Sporting Goods]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.020.019
{Anchorage Alaska 1988}{4th Avenue Theater interior and details}
Keywords: theater, 4th Avenue, interior, Anchorage
Collection: B2009.020
B1998.014.1.1755
(T76 Ellis Air Lines, Ketchikan air taxi) [aerial view with wing in upper foreground, Ketchikan in distance, water, Pennock Island at right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1291
(O85 Anchorage Circus, July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus; elephants, performers, springboard, man jumping over elephant, net, cannon, trapeze, D & D Lounge; McAllister Signs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1994.009.1418
A Western Electric photo. Photographed by A.T. Rife. 4 x 5 negative
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B1994.009.295.296
Power plant installations; .295: Rabbit Creek; .296: Niklasson Lake [White Alice]
Collection: B1994.009 Ray