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B2006.023.4560a.jpg
[berries on bush]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1990.014.5.AKNative.13.29
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.194.003
62-6 close up of totems [detail of Wolf House Post; Saxman; February 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.12.11
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [men emptying fish trap]
Keywords: ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2141.5
D-5 [person in sunglasses and fur parka, hat, and mukluks standing next to wood coffin elevated off snow, with Christian cross]
Keywords: funerary practices
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.64
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: building interior
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.735.9
First take-off, Alaska's airplane mail service. Bragaw's (02/21/24, first airmail flight in Alaska, McGrath, Ben Eielson pilot, DH-4 plane) [crowd watches airplane in flight]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.010.8.GH8
Traditional Iñupiat games in the Alaska Nat’l Guard Armory Building. • Selawik, Alaska • December 1975 • B&W Photo #8/15 • ( © George R. Harbeson Jr. --at left in photo)
Collection: B2017.010
B90.14.5.ARR.2.141
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1989.016.AllenEd.2
Allen, Ed, Passport Photos, 1933
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.50
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.980
M-27. Matanuska spud patch, 1937. Hewitt's Photo Shop [man standing in potato field with mountains in background]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.026b
from verso: "_RD; _A Alaska; 767" [verso of slide: caribou herd and herder; ocean, possible sea ice in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.5.AKNative.34.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.P.2.25E.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1983.091.C10172.42
(Oct 10 / 10 /1979)(Stack Steel Poly Creek)(conservator #077_15_06_00)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1989.016.JohnsonAA.1
(Johnson AA Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1995.014.39.15
[men at site of airplane crash, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: aircraft accidents, aviation, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.42.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative