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B1989.031.2
[The Wilmoth Co. General Merchandise building]
Keywords: supply store, commercial, winter
Collection: B1989.031
B1993.020.2463
(Baseball on Delany Park with new Presbyt church in background)
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1994.003.20
Sydney Laurence 1924. I made this smock for him. He loved it. [Nellie Brown]
Collection: B1994.003
B1998.014.1.2079
"V11 Zucchini squash" [cat sits next to large squash and ruler; wagon wheel in background; letters painted on wood structure read: "coal wood ic" (ice)]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1362
Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska [street scene looking west with pedestrians, automobiles, and businesses including KFQD, Logemann Building, Cheechako Tavern, Hewitt's Drug Store, Rexall Drugs. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1364
Providence Hospital, Anchorage, Alaska [oblique front view from across street, with trees in foreground. copy neg]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.111
24312(92414)(4pm)(Serpentine Glacier and Mt Gilbert)
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, Glaciers, icebergs
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.530
May 1931. Sawdust pit, after fire. Spruce of 1926 & pines of 1927 on hill [damaged structure in foreground, small trees on hillside in distance. Cf. .1015]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1141.2
[homestead with log cabin and outbuildings in treed area]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1402
Talley scow, Bristol Bay. Hewitt's, 11 [sailboats near barges in bay. copy neg]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.379
The new truck hauling away potatoes in crates, Sept. 1920 [view down field row filled with potatoes to truck]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1280
White fox, Mt. Village, Alaska [men loading furs from sleds onto Woodley Airways Curtiss-Wright Sedan 6-B tail number NC14975 at Mountain Village. copy neg]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.274.TIF
Alaska fireweed. B-12, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [negative silvering]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.537.3
No. 3. Anchorage Dock & Cannery. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [Emard's? with fishing boats North Cape and Giant II]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1996.011.339.neg
Garden Cove exped., Xmas time [man, hiding face, and woman seated on rocks near camp fire, kettle and pan on driftwood in foreground]
Keywords: camping
Collection: B1996.011 Dr_ Edward A_ Dunlap
B2016.006.2630
[skins on drying racks next to Quonset hut, metal barrels on ground]
Collection: B2016.006
B1984.055.279
AMEA agreement April 2 [George Sullivan signing document, man and woman looking on]
Collection: B1984.055
B1984.055.288
Five men standing in front of old post office on Fourth Avenue in front of large banner reading “help us SERVE AMERICA USE ZIP CODES MAIL EARLY,” and holding sign reading “Use Christmas Seals.” Men are identified on back of .289 as “Russ Underwood, Anchorage P.O.; Bob Opinsky, Postmaster; Leo Kaye, _______; George Sullivan, Mayor; Ivan Hanson, Alaska District Manager, U.S. Postal Service”
Collection: B1984.055
B1989.016.1147.2
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Final Shots, Dec. 20, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, exterior of completed postal annex]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1147.3
(Post Office Annex, Final Shots, Dec. 20, 1941) [Federal Building, Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, exterior with automobiles, flagpole. neg deteriorating]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1158.2
P-414. Knik Glacier. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (1945) [aerial of Knik Glacier]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1159.1
P-427. Hewitt's Photo, Anchorage, Alaska (Palmer Valley Produce, 1945) [cabbage]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1616.1
(Early Hewitt's, Interior) [Hewitt's Drug Store, showing lunch counter, magazine racks, paintings for sale on walls. Sydney Laurence painting in top left may be 1995.075.8]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1616.2
(Early Hewitt's, Interior) [Hewitt's Drug Store, showing lunch counter and displays, paintings for sale on walls. Sydney Laurence painting fourth from right may be 1995.075.8]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.004.46
It is never proper for an Eskimo to dance without wearing gloves. Photo by Brickley Photocraft [man wearing Western style clothing, eyeglasses, knitted gloves, and mukluks dancing indoors, woman seated along wall in background]
Keywords: dancing
Collection: B2015.004
B2015.004.61
This Alaskan hill-billie has an eye for comfort. Photo by Brickley Photocraft [man sleeping in inflated raft, with mosquito netting suspended from four branches]
Collection: B2015.004
B2015.008.1259
Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise, Abbott's Pass, The Death Trap 1898 [Matted]
Keywords: mountains, glaciers
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.109
24310(92414)(315pm)(Cataract and Serpentine Glacierfrom boat)
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, Glaciers, icebergs
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1089
M-37. Colonists' Post Office. [automobile parked next to building, Palmer water tower in background, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1893
Hurricane Gulch. Hewitt's, Anchorage [Alaska Railroad train crossing Hurricane Gulch Bridge]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5920
Anchorage [George wearing sweater posed next to wall of log house in winter, Fairview, 1940s. Has neg]
Collection: B1995.010
B1996.011.338.neg
Garden Cove exped., Xmas time [man, possibly Dunlap, and woman standing on snowy tundra, both holding cameras]
Keywords: photography
Collection: B1996.011 Dr_ Edward A_ Dunlap
B1996.011.344.neg
St. George from a distance. First view of the island, from the south
Collection: B1996.011 Dr_ Edward A_ Dunlap