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B1990.014.3.18
Prudhoe pipe yard July 2, 1974 2509
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.3
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.67.5A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.723
Boy collects potatoes [Matanuska Valley?]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.86
[Four Indigenous Alaskan children holding hands outside midwinter]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Children, Child, Boy, Girl, Toddler, Outside, Winter, Snow, Mukluks, Footwear
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.5.AKNative.17.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2021.002.042
Margaret Fleming, Randal Fleming.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Margaret Fleming, Randal Fleming, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2022.001.095
Jamila Evans, with Mayfield Evans and Alaska Governor Tony Knowles at Governor’s Family Picnic, 2002 [Note on front: “Best wishes, Tony Knowles”]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Family, Jamila Evans, Granddaughter, Alaska, Alaskans, Governor, Governor Tony Knowles, Governor Knowles, Tony Knowles, Politician, Governor's Family Picnic, Picnic, Gathering, Signature, Autograph, Teenager, Grandfather, Grandpa
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.125.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.94
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2015.008.345
Horse barn, showing bridge to garage. Blowing straw through ensilage blower, for bedding [man standing in hay stack next to Beulah Farm barn, with pipe leading up to second story window]
Collection: B2015.008
B2000.014.786
(786)(Big John Louis Pilot Big Albert Kokrines June 17 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2015.008.679
227.8. Camp 4 & Mt. Gilbert. 9.1.14, 12:30 P.M., clear, 128 s & 1 sec [bird’s eye view of
glacier valley, tents set up on rocky slope in foreground. Proof print. Cf. .776]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, mountaineering, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2058.7
Alaska, Greetings from the Northland (Christmas Cards 1939) [Christmas card mat with sketch of totem pole and holly leaves, with photograph of Alaska Native woman carrying baby. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.S4176.32
Turnagain Subdivision. showing cracks in ground and houses that have slipped off of foundations.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2014.016.1934
Nome. The Glue Pot, bar, etc., mostly frequented by Natives [men sitting on bench outside building]
Keywords: businesses, alcohol
Collection: B2014.016