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B1990.014.004.35146
Old Ice with Young Ice Shoved upon it by movement pressures 35146
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2019.003.093
– Native moving day on the Yukon [two riverboats docked alongside barge near beach, dogs next to tent on barge, young girl standing on beach]
Collection: B2019.003
B2015.007.111
[young Alaska Native man and woman wearing Western style clothing posed next to wooden house, woman wearing coat with fur trim and knitted cap, man wearing driving cap]
Keywords: clothing, residences
Collection: B2015.007
B2006.023.4566a.jpg
[Mt. McKinley expedition?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B2015.007.14
[group posed outdoors next to building, with elder woman wearing fur parka and eyeglasses, two young women wearing squirrel fur parkas, and two young girls wearing cloth parkas, ladder against log building at left and another in background]
Keywords: clothing, residences
Collection: B2015.007
B1995.010.5351
[motorboat St. Paul pulling umiak away from fish factory ship Pribilof, Pribilof Islands; print date Jul 74]
Keywords: transportation, fisheries, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.007.106
[large group of Alaska Native men in boat coming ashore, all raising boat oars, second boat behind at left]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.007
B1991.046.25
Scammon Bay, 7/51 [six Alaska Native children posed in front of house, fish net propped against wall at right, fish trap on roof]
Collection: B1991.046
B2015.007.58
[group portrait of large Alaska Native family posed in sparsely wooded area in winter]
Collection: B2015.007
B2016.006.1842
[carvers working inside building, possibly King Island Chief Aulaġana (John Olarana) at left; 1950s]
Collection: B2016.006
B2017.029.1872
[athlete competing in two-foot high kick in gymnasium; print date Jun 90]
Collection: B2017.029
B2022.005.147
[View from car down 4th Avenue, Anchorage]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, View, Street, Road, Cars, Vehicles, Tranportation, 4th Ave, 4th Avenue, Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Downtown, Businesses, 4th Avenue Theater, Eatery, Restaurant, Empress Theatre
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2015.007.7
[three young girls wearing Western style clothing posed outdoors in summer, building in background]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B2015.007
B1991.011.123
"Eek 1949 on a 'whiteout' day" [winter scene with structure entrance at right, small cache at left; posssibly boats in background; firewood, likely river in distance]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2022.005.227
[Young couple in uniform (possibly Civil Air Patrol or US Air Force) holding hands outside concrete building; other men in uniform nearby]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Couple, Pair, Young man, Man, Men, Young woman, Woman, Uniform, Building, Concrete, Civil Air Patrol, CAP, C.A.P., USAF, U.S.A.F., US, Air Force, Clothing
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2015.007.37
[Alaska Native man and woman posed outdoors in summer, both wearing Western style clothing, man wearing necktie, location non-Alaskan]
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.1457
46. Eating whale blubber. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [small boy eating muktuk. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.001.732
[view down residential street in winter, Volkswagen Beetle parked in driveway of house in .731 at left, fire hydrant and street lights; print date Jul 77]
Collection: B2014.001
B2015.007.91
[young Alaska Native man wearing Western style clothing and mukluks posed next to wooden building]
Collection: B2015.007
B2019.003.078
“Anvik, Christ Church Mission" Louis, half br. [young boy posed on building steps next to pile of fuel wood]
Collection: B2019.003
B2019.003.091
River steamer at Nenana [view across Alaska Railroad dock to paddle steamer and barge, man sitting on dock in foreground]
Collection: B2019.003
B2022.005.69
[Indigenous Alaskan family of four wearing fur parkas (likely reindeer fur) outside]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Family, Woman, Man, Mother, Father, Child, Children, Parka, Fur, Reindeer, Hide, Skin, Clothing, Outerwear, Landscape
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2015.007.138
Fred W. Yenney Democratic Candidate for Representative Primary Election April 25 [studio portrait of man wearing bib overalls]
Keywords: politics
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.147
[young man wearing three-piece suit and necktie posed outdoors. Print cropped]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.31
[four young men goofing around inside room, with carpet and lace curtains. Original image blurry]
Collection: B2015.007
B2022.005.264
[one Indigenous man in parka with fur ruff pulled up]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, parka, Alaska
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2053.35
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [parade on Fourth Avenue, passing signs for businesses including The Gitchell, Seidenverg's, U. G. Crocker, and Tent Factory]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.007.63
[group portrait of large group of Alaska Natives posed on tundra, possibly in front of biplane]
Collection: B2015.007
B2022.005.188
[Indigenous Alaskan child in fur parka looking at snow; man seated on small platform in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young boy, Child, Boy, Parka, Fur parka, Clothing, Outerwear, Snow, Winter, Man, Seated, Sitting, Platform, Landscape
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2015.007.136
[Alaska Native woman wearing dress, cardigan sweater, and mukluks posed next to wood-plank building]
Collection: B2015.007
B2017.017.199
[view of village, with dog yard in right foreground, truck parked at left, drying racks at right, house in background with antlers mounted to roof]
Collection: B2017.017
B2019.003.008
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Boys dormitory [exterior of building, boardwalk in foreground] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet (Eklutna)]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, School, Education, U.S. Government, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Boys, Dormitory, Dorm, Boardwalk
Collection: B2019.003
B2015.007.32
[Alaska Native man and woman posed outdoors next to corrugated metal building, both wearing Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.2053.34
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [Mothers Club float, flatbed truck festooned with boughs, flags and banners, young people dressed in powdered wigs on back of truck]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2123.9
(Catholic Church, Mountain View, 4-2-58) [exterior of church under construction]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.38
E-56 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [three men in parkas on gravel beach, operating a camera]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.4
E-24 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [man wearing glasses in store or gallery with displays of Native arts and crafts including ivory carvings, mukluks, dolls; Eklutna Vocational School student or teacher]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.49
E-72 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [two women, one wearing printed parka with fur trim, the other wearing a fur parka with geometric decoration, standing outside, mountains in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.007.155
White Mountain. I. N. [group portrait of Alaska Native family posed next to log cabin, man wearing fur parka, woman and children wearing cloth parkas with fur trim, woman holding infant in fur onesie]
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.2068.11
(Cub Scouts, 9/19/??) [group portrait with adults, young boys in Cub Scout uniforms, man wearing Native American Indian-style dress, in large hall for ceremony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.007.46
[two Alaska Native women wearing print parkas and Athapascan style beaded mittens posed next to wood-shingle and tarpaper building]
Keywords: residences, clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2022.005.89
[Indigenous Alaskan woman and man with harnessed reindeer near sleds]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Man, Parka, Fur, Clothing, Outerwear, Reindeer, Caribou, Harness, Harnessed, Sled, Sleds, Transportation, Outside, Snow, Winter, Landscape
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon