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B1990.014.5.EQ.16.59
A/W helicopter Dalton wreckage
Keywords: helicopter, cars, damaged buildings, trucks, power lines, street lights
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.13
Crane lifts flattened auto at Penney's A beginning at clearing wreckage of 27 March '64 quake in Anchorage.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1983.091.S2060.11
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [automobiles moving through snowy intersection in downtown Anchorage, Kimball's in background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.328
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.329
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22291)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.330.1
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.330.2
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.330.3
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.330.4
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.331.1
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.331.2
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.331.3
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.331.4
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.331.5
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.331.6
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(22290)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.332
(Catastrophe)(October 12, 1971)(20069)(Sheet A Col 4 #1 Atkinson Conway and Joe Young Schmidt and Hayes vs Anchorage Helicopter){accident scene with wreckage details}
Keywords: accident scene
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1983.091.S2060.13
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [Galion road grader plowing snow from city street, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2060.14
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [Galion road grader plowing snow from city street, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2060.15
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [automobile waiting for Galion road grader plowing snow from city street, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2015.008.464
21. Wreckage on tree showing flood level opposite Mrs. Bugbee’s [debris piled against tree trunks along riverbank, road and buildings at right. Cf. .1007]
Collection: B2015.008
B1983.091.S2060.3
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [small bulldozer next to Union 76 gas tanks at tank farm, tank at right toppled due to snow]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2060.12
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [man with paper bag and camera struggling across snowy intersection at Fourth Avenue and E Street, with automobiles and businesses including Pacific Northern Airlines]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2015.008.203
I7 82225 Kanatak Alaska_Beach wreckage_windiest town on coast{a wrecked boat and debris strewn along coast line}
Keywords: wreckage, flood, Kanatak
Collection: B2015.008
B1983.091.S2060.16
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [two small airplanes on skis at Merrill Field, one with tail number N8725D upside down, control tower and hangar with signs for Piper, Safeway, and Union 76 in background, Chugach Mountains in distance, winter]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2016.004.1136
.1134 - 1138 – Winds raked Anchorage. Official Entry, Best Photo Series, Alaska Press Club Competition 1980 [Trifold mount. Five images from photo feature on November 1979 windstorm. Entry blank and original clipping adhered to back of mount.] Boots Nelson is understandably upset. Her front yard is now littered with the roof of her house and the wreckage of her son’s motorcycle. And behind her home in the trailer park at DeBarr and Muldoon are the remnants of a shed taken by the wind, too.
Collection: B2016.004