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B1989.016.2041.1
[text of advertisement, "Da-Lite Beaded Screens for movies slides $995 30x40 on stand"]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2041.2
[text of advertisement, "Da-Lite Beaded Screens for movies slides $995 30x40 on stand"]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.312a
B62 (Elmendorf post theatre [sic] Chugach) movie theater, men standing outside]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.312b
B62 Elmendorf post theater Chugach [servicemen lined up outside movie theater]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1975.175.267
(267 Alaska St Michael Russian church August 1938){man with movie camera inspecting a painting}
Keywords: church, interior, russian orthodox, camera, tripod
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1991.046.100a
Me showing health movies (ugh) to the children, Belkofsky [Schaver manning projector in center, children gathered around table, Belkofski]
Collection: B1991.046
B2017.002.19
[children and adults sitting in auditorium waiting to watch a movie, man standing at film projector in background, Barrow, 1956-1957]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2017.002
B1996.032.107
(1923 Street Scene for the Cheechakos on location at west end of Third Avenue-Anchorage)(4th Ave and L Street Movie, "The Cheechako" 1923)
Collection: B1996.032 John Bagoy Collection
B1970.028.104
L to R: John Dimond, Father B.R. Hubbard, Nicholas Cavaliere, 1936, Taku Ice Cap, Alaska [three men on glacier with movie camera]
Keywords: photography, cameras, Hollywood
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B2015.011.74
735. Photo by E. Wolf, Juneau, Alaska [Alaska Native women selling crafts along street, Abbott & Costello movie poster in background]
Keywords: tourism, arts
Collection: B2015.011
B2021.002.014
Samuel Fleming, 21 years old, Ladd Air Force Base, week of October 8, 1951 [note on back by Margaret Fleming: "Going to the movie."]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Fairbanks, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990, African Americans Military Service
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.55.002
22-2 Pat outdoors [Pat Thomas sitting on wood structure near forest holding what is likely a movie camera, near Ketchikan?; possible totem pole in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.55.002
22-2 Pat outdoors [Pat Thomas sitting on wood structure near forest holding what is likely a movie camera, near Ketchikan?; possible totem pole in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.010.4900
[young Alaska Native girl wearing fur-trimmed parka, woman wearing parka and holding movie camera at left, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B2014.016.1930
Nome. One shy and one willing King Island Eskimo women with tourist photographer [two women outside house, man with movie camera standing at right]
Keywords: residences, photography
Collection: B2014.016
B1998.014.1.1513
S80 At Fort Richardson (Theatre #2) [Post Theatre 2; quonset, entrance, movie posters, Chugach Mountains in distance possibly wih termination dust; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.314
B62 Elmendort Field (Post theatre [sic] Chugach) [men sitting on concrete steps outside; men sitting inside, door propped open blocking movie poster]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.28.006
11-1; May 1939; Plus x 64-40 Dev in DK 20-26 min c 65 degree FAR; show [scene from movie depicting two men sitting drinking]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.28.006
11-1; May 1939; Plus x 64-40 Dev in DK 20-26 min c 65 degree FAR; show [scene from movie depicting two men sitting drinking]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.28.004
11-1; May 1939; Plus x 64-40 Dev in DK 20-26 min c 65 degree FAR; show [scene from movie depicting man and woman sitting at kitchen table]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.28.004
11-1; May 1939; Plus x 64-40 Dev in DK 20-26 min c 65 degree FAR; show [scene from movie depicting man and woman sitting at kitchen table]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.28.005
11-1; May 1939; Plus x 64-40 Dev in DK 20-26 min c 65 degree FAR; show [scene from movie depicting old west with stagecoach, horses, people, stuctures]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.28.005
11-1; May 1939; Plus x 64-40 Dev in DK 20-26 min c 65 degree FAR; show [scene from movie depicting old west with stagecoach, horses, people, stuctures]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.024.2588
Nome, September 1961 [street scene outside A. Polet Eskimo Arts & Crafts store; possibly movie camera on tripod at left; two men pose with mammoth tusk; photographer in foreground; children looking on]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.1834
{T129 Fairbanks (at 2nd & Cushman)} [street scene is actually at 2nd and Lacey Street; Bank of Fairbanks; Lacey Street Theatre; movie posters for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Cariboo Trail (1950); automobiles, man, ladder]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.180
(catastrophe)(April 22, 1956)(25868)(Malamute Salon Brady Floor 4th Ave between C&D south side Malamute saloon south side 4th Ave about 1/2 way between C&D. Bldg was originally Peterson Hotel, with car rental on main floor. Owned then by Chauncy Peterson. This in late 20's)(Historical)
Keywords: movie, film
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.181
(catastrophe)(April 22, 1955)(20445)(4 4840 56)(NBC Malemute Saloon Man in Background John Rader Atty)(Historical)
Keywords: movie, film
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1963.016.078
(dancehall scene "The Cheechako" Motion Picture)
Keywords: movie set, Cheechako
Collection: B1963.016 Marie Silverman
B1998.014.1.1712
T65 Kodiak, Alaska [street scene, two women and boy walk in middle of street with baby carriage, automobiles parked in street, boardwalks, businesses: Ships Tavern, bars, possibly movie theater poster, Woodlinger Drugs, Northland Photo Shop, Victory Cafe, Cub Cab, Kodiak Jewelry Co, ice cream; two sailors walk down boardwalk,; copy neg]
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
B1998.014.1.1829
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
B1998.014.1.1833
{T129 Fairbanks (at 2nd & Cushman)} [actually this is the intersection of 2nd and Lacey Street; people crossing street, men, women on sidewalk; automobiles; bicycles; flags strung over street; businesses: Lacey Street Theatre, 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); smoke stacks; man climbing on outside of delivery truck]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley