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B1989.016.1903.3
(Alaska dairy farmhouse) [cow in front of wood frame house, delivery truck from The Sheely Dairy parked alongside, Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1903.4
(Alaska dairy farmhouse) [cow in front of wood frame house, Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: agriculture, animal husbandry, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1903.5
(Alaska dairy, Palmer) [two-story wood frame house in residential neighborhood]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2253
[fishing boats Alasco 3 and Susitna 31D816 dry docked for winter, Anchorage docks in background]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
AEC.G901
HGK Looking Towards Anchorage Terminal Yards From End of Temporary Trestle- Aug. 20 - 1918. "At Low Tide"
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B2015.008.1233b
Argentina. Church & belfry constructed by Indians at one of Jesuit missions 150 years ago [same as .1233a]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1390
(S9 Matanuska Valley; soldiers & cow; 1946 postcard) [similar to .1389]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.4675
"Snow still lingers, May 11, 1918" [sleeve 6; Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, snow-covered farm field in foreground, agricultural structures, barn in background, fence]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.1388
S9 Matanuska Valley (soldiers & cow; 1946 postcard) [two service men pose in field with dairy cow; fence; mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1601.6
117. Teachers Home, Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [automobiles parked outside of wood frame building in trees, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.002.25
Cal Williams dressed for Democratic Convention ball, downtown Anchorage, 2008 [Cal in black suit, bow tie, fedora, holding wooden cane]
Keywords: Cal Williams, Democratic Convention
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2018.023.007b
verso of slide: Loman Bros. S.S. Corwin in the Arctic Ice Pack [label] “13”
Collection: B2018.023
B1979.002.4889
(Cronin #18 Jerry Kelsey son of engineer CE Kelsey on summer sled at Nenana 1921){child on sled being pulled by two dogs}
Keywords: sled dogs, children
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4950
"8/22/1919 J.D. McIntyre field view & Tanana Valley" [sleeve 87; two men walking in cut field, oats on right, straw stacks in distance, trees, Fairbanks vicinity]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4956
"8/22/1919, Flowers & Cauliflower" Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 97 [(abeled as sleeve 97-1/2), three children, girls in garden, agriculture, clothesline, log cabin, trees in background]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
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
B1979.002.4942
"8/8/1919 J. D. McIntyre. Oat field" [sleeve 79; farm field; agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4948
"8/22/1919 J.D. McIntyre; R Building [?] & oats in shock" [sleeve 85; straw stacks in field; fence posts; barrn, agriculture structures in background; Fairbanks area]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4953
"8/23/1919 Dr C.C.G [Charles C. Georgeson] mixing with farmers" [sleeve 90; two men stand in cut field; one wearing suit, carrying object; one wearing overalls, hat; carrying case on ground; valley in distance; possibly Tanana Valley, agriculture, Fairbanks vicinity]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4954
"8/22/1919 H.A. Lazelle homestead" [three men stand in grain field; two men in suits, one man in work attire, agriculture, farmer, Fairbanks vicinity]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4955
"8/22/1919 (3) Flowers & Cauliflower" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 97, three children, girls in garden; greenhouse, agriculture, structures, log cabin in background]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.2054.15
15-1940 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [young women on back of flat bed truck with banner "Rainbow Girls," girls each girl wearing sash with single word, e.g. Patriotism, Service, Love, Religion, float passing spectators in front of federal building on Fourth Avenue, clown following float]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.4923
"8/8/1919 M. Sabine. Oat & wheat fields" [sleeve 58; similar to .4922]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4949
"8/22/1919 J.D. McIntyre oat field, wheat & barley in backg." [Sleeve 86; agriculture, field, straw stacks, trees in distance, Fairbanks vicinity]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2019.007.togiak.19910516.2T806
Subsistence herring inside drying shed, spring, Togiak. Print date May 16, 1991.
Collection: B2019.007
B2019.007.togiak.19911026.2T2001
Annie Blue, Togiak. Photographer's number: 2-T20-1. Print date October 26, 1991 [woman using ulu to cut seal carcasses on cardboard on beach]
Collection: B2019.007