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B1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.93
(Anchorage Schools Turnagain)(7 May 57)(8723)(Turnagain School playground)
Keywords: education, school, students
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
b2012.006.732
[village scene, with playground and buildings in winter; no date]
Collection: B2012.006
B1979.002.8903
locos steam #556 [chilidren playing on the train in the playground]
Keywords: trains, recreation, playground, kids
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.92
(Anchorage Schools Turnagain)(7 May 57)(8723)(Kids at School Turnagain playground)
Keywords: education, students, school
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B2017.007.103a
[damage to Government Hill school with playground equipment in foreground]
Collection: B2017.007
B2008.015.1.23.4
Metlakahtla Band. Band on north end of playground, Metlakahtla, Alaska [postcard] [Metlakatla]
Collection: B2008.015
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.69
(Anchorage Schools North Star)(2 Mar 53)(3 2264 53)(Spenard School North Star Playground)
Keywords: education, school
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B2016.006.2331
[white buildings, possibly schoolhouse, with playground equipment at left, Tanana; print date Jul 62]
Keywords: education
Collection: B2016.006
B2017.017.194
[view of village, possibly school and playground in foreground, bell on frame in front of building, cemetery in background]
Collection: B2017.017
B2009.017.1986.12.01
Warning Possible Mercury or Arsenic Contamination Remember when the big playground worry was getting your tongue frozen to the monkeybars?
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, cartoons, political, comics
Collection: B2009.017
B1979.002.1559
#556 donated to city of Anchorage park strip playground between 9th and 10th ave [ locomotive # 556 with steam]
Keywords: transportation, trains
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.004.28837
Anchorage: area destroyed by earthquake of Mar 27 '64, turned park & playground. Photographer's number: 28837 [aerial of baseball field]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1998.014.1.1522
S 87 School at Fort Richardson [playground equipment: slide, seesaws, swings, possibly monkey bars; barrel, benches, bicycles; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1523
(S87 Ft Richardson school) [structure, children playing on playground, equipment, slide, seesaws, swings, monkey bars, jungle gym; riding bicyles, adults, teachers; copy neg; flipped image based on view of .1522]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2055.19
19 (July 4, 1938, parade) [General Motors flat bed truck festooned with crepe and flags, Northern Transfer painted on door, children on back of truck on swingset and seesaw, one boy holding basketball, banner reading "Bond Anchorage Youth Preferred J.C.C. Playground"]
Keywords: recreation, sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection