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B1991.046.115
H. Bay, 7/51 [Alaska Native woman with two small children standing outdoors, railroad tracks leading up to school in background, Hooper Bay]
Collection: B1991.046
B2001.036.561
[print and original negative] Harry Ambrose [portrait of man]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B1989.016.1745.1
(Denali School, 1951)
Keywords: education
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.159.1
(catastrophe)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.159.2
(catastrophe)(November 19 1945)(The Smart Shop at 4th and St. N East corner Owner Opal shown)(Walt Smith for DCK)(Anchorage Historical)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.159.3
(catastrophe)(November 19 1945)(The Smart Shop at 4th and E St N East corner Owner Opal shown)(Walt Smith for DCK)(Anchorage Historical)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.16
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Ketchikan Fire){firemen and police on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fireman, fire, accident, totempole
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.160.1
(catastrophe)(About 1950)(A.C.C.A.)(Anchorage Historical)
Keywords: medical, children, doctors, nurse
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.160.2
(catastrophe)(About 1950)(A.C.C.A.)(Anchorage Historical)
Keywords: medical, children, doctors, nurse
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.160.3
(catastrophe)(About 1950)(A.C.C.A.)(Anchorage Historical)
Keywords: medical, children, doctors, nurse
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.160.4
(catastrophe)(About 1950)(A.C.C.A.)(Anchorage Historical)
Keywords: medical, children, doctors, nurse
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.160.5
(catastrophe)(About 1950)(A.C.C.A.)(Anchorage Historical)
Keywords: medical, children, doctors, nurse
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1998.014.1.419
B124 Seward General Hospital [automobiles, trees in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2143.22
34. Anchorage taxi service for the colonists. Hewitt's Photo Shop [three lines of automobiles parked alongside platform at Alaska Railroad depot in Anchorage, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1362
(PS3 Baskt Bee) [Women wearing parkas sit together with children, making baskets; weaving; fur, pelts draped behind people, baskets displayed against wall.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1831
T128 2nd & Lacey Streets, Fairbanks, Alaska [street scene; man walking at right; bicycles parked on sidewalk; automobiles; businesses: Lacey Street Theatre with movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released 1949), Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs; flags hanging over street]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1817
T122 Receiving dock for truck & barge operations at Valdez, Alaska (Delong barges) [men on piers, structures; crane unloading semi trailers from barge; Portland Tug & Barge Co 16-53; Portland Ore; skiffs on floating piers; mountains and low clouds in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1829
T127 2nd Ave, Fairbanks, Alaska [Street scene; people on sidewalks; automobiles, businesses: Maddux Jeweler, Alaska, Pan American World Airways, Kayes, Curios, Café, Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs, Wyman’s, Café, Model Café; movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released in 1949); flags hanging over street; smoke stacks in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley