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B1989.016.1720
Polar bear skins, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [furs on rack outside Alaska Fur Factory. copy neg]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
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
B1989.016.2143.34
U.S. Experimental Farm, Matanuska. 67, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [view of homestead with barn and silo at left, second house at right, mountains in distance]
Keywords: agriculture, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2143.49
94. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Colonist's Home) [log cabin in clear-cut area, with tree stumps and brush in yard, rolls of construction material in foreground]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.55.19
[man in dog yard with log kennels on hillside, log cabin in trees above yard, unidentified location]
Keywords: residences, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.55.2
[exterior of Air Base Chapel, Jeep parked at left]
Keywords: military, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.56.9
[close-up of porcupine held in person's hand]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.57.1
[portrait of soldier holding rifle, seated in field, Eugene Tetinek?]
Keywords: military, arms
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.59.2
Axel Johnson on trail to McNeil Creek, 1937 [man with three dogs pulling sled loaded with supplies on winter trail]
Keywords: animals, transportation, roads
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.59.3
Mrs. Joe Jean, Mountain Village, 1935 [Native woman in fancy fur parka standing outside building]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.82.6
[two soldiers roped up for traverse, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.89.10
[three surveyors at work, Jeep parked at right, mountain in background, Adak]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.012.42
U.S.S. "Rush", Nushagak, Alaska, July 1910 [ship in bay, probably U.S. Revenue Cutter Rush (1885), topsail schooner decommissioned in 1913]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B2014.012
B2014.012.5
Launch Nuten, Nushagak, Alaska [man standing on deck of boat resting on mud flats at low tide. The 22-ton wooden gas screw Nuten was destroyed by fire at Nushagak at 6 a.m. July 3, 1927. The vessel was moored in front of the Libby, McNeill & Libby Cannery with three crewmen aboard when the disaster occurred.]
Keywords: boats, fishing
Collection: B2014.012
B2016.004.598
St. Paul, Pribilofs, AK [young boy preparing to fly kite; print date Jul 84]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2016.004