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B1990.014.2018.1.88.001
32-1; Plus X - 40-24; Dev in DK20 - 18 min @ 65°; Thanksgiving, Nov 23 [1939; Thanksgiving table [two place settings with labels for Basha and Ken; doily placemats; fruit centerpiece with oranges, grapes, bananas; butter on dish; possibly beef fork; glass salt and pepper shakers]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Sports.1.4
June 17, 1967 7157 W/Glove or Mouth Ketchikan
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Sports
B1995.014.62.3
[soldiers wearing backpacks and carrying snowshoes making ascent, McKinley rescue squad operation?]
Keywords: mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.574
E13 Eskimo Girls, King Island "Hilcher's shot, 1941" [Hilscher, four girls wearing kuspuks with fur trim; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.1204
Native woman such as an “ayah.” She wears a full skirt of cotton and a jacket half way to waist. Only this cloth beside. Trousers under shirt. If Mohammedan, no skirt over trousers. The water jar she carries is usually on the head. Women do the hardest work and carry the biggest burdens. This one unusually pretty [portrait of woman in traditional clothing posed in front of backdrop]
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.2018.1.116.006
41-5; nite scenes of University Way [street scene including Dresslar Hardware; furniture store; G.O. Guy Drugs; clock reading 10:35; automobiles; March 1-3, 1940; Seattle, Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.2.2
Portage Glacier 2-1/4 color negs; Portage Glacier, 1972 [icebergs, water]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.OlsonR.1
(Olson R Passport Photos 1933)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1989.016.2540
An Eskimo mother's pride. Hewitts Photo Shop Anchorage.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1989.016.2141.49
D-67 [group portrait of four women and three children in fur parkas standing on tundra, with snow patches on grass, two men visible in background; same group as in .2141.48]
Keywords: villages, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.99.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.29.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1995.014.3.14
Carbonated spring on the road to Willow Creek [soldier standing next to natural spring]
Keywords: water, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2001.036.1348
"Waiting in Clinic" Quinhagak 10-82 [children, women, elder, rabies poster on wall]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B1998.014.1.2018
"T233 Fairbanks swimming pool" [copy neg; same as .2017]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.021.14
Pioneer Home buildings, Sitka, Alaska, 7/4/24. [bird’s eye view of Sitka, with tents and boats in foreground, large group of people on green in front of buildings, flagpole at left, St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral in background. Prior to 1949. Tinted. Image cropped with partial loss of original caption]
Collection: B2017.021
B2006.023.2528.jpg
Norman Vaughan 1976 Iditarod, Knik.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
