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B1990.014.5.Cat.1.35
(catastrophe)(September 16, 1967)(Trooper Harcourt Tewe at Hyder Flood)
Keywords: catastrophe, flood
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1995.014.3.2
[Caterpillar Diesel tractor in water in flooded wooded area]
Keywords: machinery, flooding
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.3.3
[Caterpillar Diesel tractor in water in flooded wooded area]
Keywords: machinery, flooding
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.3.4
[Caterpillar Diesel tractor in water in flooded wooded area]
Keywords: machinery, flooding
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.215
Kanatak, Alaska_houses afloat_ what wind can do_annual winter flood
Keywords: storm damage, flood
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.216
Kanatak, Alaska_houses afloat_ what wind can do_annual winter flood
Keywords: storm damage, flood
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.217
Kanatak, Alaska_houses afloat_ what wind can do_annual winter flood
Keywords: storm damage, flood
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.1158
floods Nenana 5/48 File 411-17 5-22-48 _Eng 556 in Nenana Flood opposite coaling station 30" inches water over rails at this point_
Negative Nenana "flood" #17 [train partially submerged under water]
Keywords: flood, trains, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2015.008.213
Kanatak, Alaska_the oil town of the SW houses displaced by annual winter flood
Keywords: Kanatak, flood
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.214
Kanatak, Alaska_the oil town of the SW houses displaced by annual winter flood
Keywords: Kanatak, flood
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.67
(catastrophe)(August 9,1955)(AIR Flood near Goat Creek Old Palmer Road)(8 5524 55)
Keywords: catastrophe, flood
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.68
(catastrophe)(August 9 1955 AIR Goat Creek air view when flooded old palmer road)
Keywords: catastrophe, flood
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
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
B2015.008.445
Old covered bridge. Built after flood of 1865. Destroyed by flood ’27 [view through trees and across road to covered bridge]
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.69
(catastrophe)(August 9 1955)(house with flood water around it. Old Palmer highway near the power plant)
(8 5526 55)
Keywords: catastrophe, flood
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2015.008.484
Our treeless village, since the flood [view from bridge to buildings on riverbank]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.455
12. Junction of White River (left) with Connecticut River, after the flood [view over flooded flats, bluff in distance, bridge at left]
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.71
(catastrophe)(1955 August 9 AIR Home under water due to Matanuska/Knik Flood on old Palmer Hwy 1 mile before power plant)
Keywords: catastrophe, flood
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1997.003.135
[view through automobile window, possibly flooding of buildings, trees]
Collection: B1997.003
B2015.008.593
(Copper River flooded 3 miles 3 feet deep)
Keywords: Copper River, flooding, rail road
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.594
(Copper River flooded 3 miles 3 feet deep)
Keywords: Copper River, rail road
Collection: B2015.008
AEC.AN5
Results of Lowell Creek Flood at Seward Sept 9-12, 1917 ANRy [Several men surveying the damage done by floods to the railroad track]
Keywords: destuction, damage, railroad, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B2015.008.463
20. What the flood did to a 100 year old brick house [house in ruins]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.443
Flood, from our end of bridge. Ruins of 100 year old brick house at left [group of people on bank of swollen river, flooded and damaged buildings on opposite bank]
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.1161
Floods (Nenana 5/48) The AuRoRa coming down from Fairbanks on May 22 had to "wade" across track that had disappeared under the water. The train is pulled by a steam engine because of the danger that a diesel would flood out.
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2001.036.748
[print and original negative] Kipnuk, AK, 5-82 [town partially flooded]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B2015.008.451
8. Main Street, after the flood. Bridge pier at left [view across swollen river]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.470
Preparing to dynamite the brick house. Destroyed by the flood. July 1928 [damaged house]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1247
(O61 Ketchikan, Sun & Raven totem. From image: "Figures reading down: Raven before flood; children of the sun; face of the sun; raven after flood; fish the raven saw; frog"
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1246
(O61 Sun & Raven totem at Ketchikan. [From image: "Figures reading down: Raven before flood; children of the sun; face of the sun; raven after flood; fish the raven saw; frog"; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.3.196
Flood plain of the Sag river pumps were essential for drying the ditch so pipeline work could be conducted. 21842
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.3
B2015.008.442
Flood covering road and nearly to 2nd floor [view across swollen river to buildings on opposite bank]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.460
17. West Hartford road, lowered 10’ by flood [dirt road in front of damaged buildings]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.979
stand wrecked by flood [man standing next to collapsed structure, Socony Gasoline
pump in front, utility poles along street, 1927 flood in West Hartford. Excised from photo
album, with partial loss of caption]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.6356
Loco Steam (#557) "557" used for last time in shuttle service Nenana flood June 1962
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2012.014.3165
[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crew in military tank responding to Chena River flood, Fairbanks, 1967]
Keywords: disasters
Collection: B2012.014
B2015.008.449
1. Flood at West Hartford, Vt. 11 A.M. Nov. 4, 1927 [view across swollen river]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1242
(O60 Ketchikan, Chief Johnson Totem) [actually, the lower portion of Sun & Raven totem. From image: "Figures reading down: Raven before flood; children of the sun; face of the sun; raven after flood; fish the raven saw; frog"]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.453
Nov. 3, ’27. Flood covering meadow of Roy Darling and A.L. Dow [view down swollen river]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.365
102. Knik River in flood near Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [railroad tracks crossing water]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.005.497
ARR 63. A.J.C. 13 [ice chunks and flooding in Portage, with Diamond Jim’s sign; print date Apr 64]
Keywords: earthquake
Collection: B2014.005