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B1984.077.22.014
Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No 17, General Merchandise and drugs, A.D. Thompson [Nenana street scene, businesses, automobiles, lumber, man in left foregound]
Collection: B1984.077
B2022.005.38
[Indigenous Alaskan child holding implement pointed towards viewer, possibly small fishing pole?]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Child, Boy, Toddler, Pointing, Implement, Fishing pole, Winter, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1975
Alaska Cabbage, Hewitts Photo (Cabbage at Circle Hot Springs)[farmer showing a large alaskan cabbage]
Keywords: farming, agriculture, farmer, produce
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1979.1
(Seward Highway, car parked, April 15, 1954, oversized print) [photograph of a car parked, looking south down the seward hwy]
Keywords: highway, transportation, cars, railroad, Turnagin Arm, mountains
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.735.2
Anchorage, Alaska [Travel Air C-194 airplane, "Anchorage No. 1" with Russ Merrill. cf. B1965.002.16]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.874
[view across valley to Mount McKinley]
Keywords: mountains, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.734.1
Anchorage, Alaska. Bragaw's [Hotel Anchorage, with Brown & Hawkins truck and Cook Inlet in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.456
"C8 three Alaska queens on ice throne" [women wearing sashes, Cordova, University; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1985.027.2606
Originally in B9 F166. Wien Tourism. Dogs. 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1989.016.2302.3
[aerial of mountain range along body of water]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2304.1
(Mountain scenery along Cook Inlet) [view of Turnagain Arm, with Seward Highway at left]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.733.2
Chris float job with sheep [Christensen Air Service float plane with four men holding Dall sheep trophies on floats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.002.62
Different view of above [Hess cabin, cf. .60. Interior with chairs, phonograph, illustrations on walls]
Keywords: residences, music
Collection: B2016.002
B2017.023.158
Haines, Alaksa (C) 43 Ordway, Commissary [buildings, people, water, mountains, pier, street]
Collection: B2017.023
B2015.008.692.dk232.7
232.7. Crevasses on Brunonian Glacier. Soft snow, 2 men down, 1 in [blizzard?], 1914.
9.12.14 [climber in center foreground sitting on snow, holding rope, photographer with tripod
in center distance, small crevasse at left. Has neg, described as “photographing Harvard
Glacier, main axis, Mr. Tucker, snowing, 2 P.M.”]
Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, glacier, mountain, climber
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1223
93. Paraguay, Apr. ’09. River Manduvirá, at Arroyos y Esteros [people passing in riverboat with pontoons]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1877
[view across Cook Inlet to Mount Susitna with brush in foreground, winter. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2303
(Anchorage Grocery Meat Market, view of store window, March 19, 1946) [window display with Coca-Cola and 7-Up soda bottles]
Keywords: businesses, health, food
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.527
"D27 Teammates, those 2 huskies" [flipped version of .524, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.490
D12 An Alaskan dog team "Seppala's (Round Mountain background) [musher, dog sled, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.14.5.Animals.19.021
"Animals: Bears, 1950s AIR, Polar Bear, Old M.F. X8546, 17526, Feb 28, 1971" [aerial view of polar bear walking, pressure ridge]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Animals
B1989.016.1880.28
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher with bib #4 traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.625
E44 An Alaskan family "at Fort Yukon" [man, woman wearing kuspuk, mukluks, with child on her back, two children standing, outside log structure, possibly a store, window, HIlls Bros. Coffee sign; Standard Gasoline can, wood crate to left, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.077a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle “41” [likely passengers on a ship deck looking at scenery; water; mountains; men; women; hand colored; verso notation reads: “29416 C & M”]
Collection: B2018.023
B1957.007.2
[Russ Merrill's Travel Air C-194 airplane with floats on mud flats, man with camera on flats, pilot in cockpit, two other men by tail, Anchorage Air Transport Inc.]
Collection: B1959.x_001 Government Hill Housing Projects / B1957_007 Russel Hyde Merrill Papers
B1989.016.1880.24
(Fur Rendezvous Dog Teams on Fourth Avenue, 1952) [musher with bib #9 at start line, with dog handlers getting team ready, in front of spectators lined up outside Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, Anchorage Jewelers, The Gitchell, Smart Shop, and the federal building]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.25
(Fur Rendezvous Dog Teams on Fourth Avenue, 1952) [musher at start line, with dog handlers getting team ready, in front of spectators lined up outside Dr. Hines Optometrist, Ship Creek Market, and Lee's Menswear]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.27
(Fur Rendezvous Dog Teams on Fourth Avenue, 1952) [musher with bib #16 at start line, with dog handlers getting team ready, in front of spectators lined up outside Smart Shop, The Gitchell, Anchorage Jewelers, Lee's Menswear, and Ship Creek Market]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.29
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher with bib #8 traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.3
(Fur Rendezvous Dog Teams on Fourth Avenue, 1952) [musher and team passing Anchorage Hotel at corner of 4th and E Street]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1880.30
(Dog musher on trail, 1952. FR) [musher with bib #3 traveling through wooded area, Chugach Mountains in background, Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.077b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle “41” [verso of slide: likely passengers on a ship deck looking at scenery; water; mountains; men; women; hand colored; verso notation reads: “29416 C & M”]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.1.24.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B2014.016.860
[on verso:] 5097-14 [photographer in field wearing mosquito netting, holding camera, and carrying two cases]
Keywords: photography
Collection: B2014.016
B1998.014.1.1170
O33 Sky Twins - Fairbanks, Alaska (NC smoke stacks; 1946 postcard) [NC Co. sign between smoke stacks; rooftops, structures, river, forest in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.149
[two small skiffs with several men in each boat attending to or standing by a much larger vessel or ship][negative is cracked]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1957.007.9
(Russ Merrill's Travel Air 7000 (he was killed in this plane) on the right Noel Wien's Stinson Detroiter (Wien Alaska Airways), taken at Fairbanks) [Anchorage Air Transport plane with "Anchorage No. 1" painted on side, crowd standing in front of planes at Weeks Field]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1959.x_001 Government Hill Housing Projects / B1957_007 Russel Hyde Merrill Papers
B1998.014.1.615b
"E38 Kotzebue, PE-4 Eskimo family fishing 'Eskimo family fishing on Kotzebue Sound, Feb 1948'" [same as .615a]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.414
Prov. Hosp. in left background [bird’s eye view of Fourth Avenue looking west in winter, taken from roof of federal building, 4th Avenue Theatre under construction at left, with pedestrians, automobiles, and signs for businesses including Eckmann’s Furniture, 1st National Bank, Bert’s Drugs, Northern Commercial Co., Providence Hospital and Cook Inlet in distance, circa 1945]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1820
(T123 Fairbanks, Cushman St) [street scene looking from deck of Chena River bridge; people walking, automobiles, buisnesses: Pasttime Bar, card rooms; Pat and Mike Cafe, Rexall Drugs, Laverys,Kenneth A Murry, Horseshoe card room, Shoe Mart, Crocker's, Medical and Surgical Clinic, bank; flags strung above street; banner reading "American Legion Days of 98" partially obstructed]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley