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B2006.023.5875.jpg
[Sign at Takhini Crossing, Yukon]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2017.017.244
L to R: Dede Jimmie and trainees Linda Baker and Laverne Jimmie (all of Minto) enjoy a quiet canoe ride after swim lessons in Minto [three young women in boat]
Collection: B2017.017
B2006.023.2670.jpg
1972 clearing Iditarod.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B2007.005.6.A11
[group of native childern and a dog gathered around the entrance to an underground house]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1984.077.23.016
[scene, field, farm buildings in distance, double exposure, railway car at left. Neg. is damaged and deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.2.011
[Man posing with gun, backpack, hat, boots, cabin. neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.1067.2
206. Power plant, Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop
Keywords: power generation, electricity
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.601.1
53. Dinning room, Curry Hotel. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [interior of dining room]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.50.16
[two men camping, with large tent and hunting blind, Willow area?]
Collection: B1995.014
B2016.004.872
Iditarod Racer crosses Cook Inlet on way to Knik Checkpoint, Alaska
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.023.226
12-25-43 [Group photo, service men standing, sitting, holding drinks, civilian? in center record player in right corner]
Collection: B2017.023
B1989.016.1077.3
P-273. Hewitt's (Palmer Homes) [log cabin and walled tent along road]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.52.6
Mountain Village 1935 [four young children standing on boardwalk in winter, two wearing skin parkas with fur ruffs and mittens, one wearing kuspuk, one wearing Western style clothes, all wearing mukluks]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.53.2
[debris from military airplane crash on tundra, water in distance at left, same as crash across Cook Inlet from Anchorage, 1940s, as in .53.5?]
Keywords: aircraft accidents, aviation, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2009.017.1993.04.01
Pick the Legislature's preferred tool for examining citizen applicants to the ethics panel
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B1989.016.1411.4
20. Winter. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Winter Scene, Anchorage) [pedestrian bridge or boardwalk with trees covered in hoar frost]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus.21.6
Anchorage -Business- Scientific Computer Services Corp May 14, 1968 9672 P.R. Girl
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus
B1995.014.4.6
Marshall, 1934 [portrait of two Alaska Native women wearing print dresses and mukluks standing outside wood-frame building]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.4.8
Nellie Johansen, a cook at Willow Creek [portrait of woman standing inside window frame]
Keywords: mining, clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1548
(S100 Elmendorf Air Force Base, flag pole 1945 "V") [flag flying near exercise grounds; structures, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.6836.jpg
[Dry red salmon at Knik 1951?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2007.005.6.A12
[unknown native woman and child standing outside infront of entrance to an underground house ]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1994.022.853
(people including a man dressed in Arabic robe)[7 people posed on door front]
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1995.014.50.5
Army fishing, food for dogs [two soldiers angling from river bank, Adak]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1488
S58 Japanese baloon [sic] bomb in Alaskan wilderness [Two service men handling fabric from balloon bomb in trees, spruce; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.004.843
Mike Harrington, McGrath [musher coming into checkpoint, two young boys riding in basket, another boy running alongside]
Collection: B2016.004