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B2008.014.Bedroom Reindeer Station
Looking into bedroom from living room. Kulukak, Alaska 1932
Collection: B2008.014
B1994.022.865
(school children Anchorage 1946)
Keywords: education, elementary school, kids
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.866
(school children Anchorage 1946)
Keywords: kids, education, elementary school
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1998.014.1.548
D37 Anchorage, Alaska - Natalie Norris & Team "from Kodachrome" [dog sled team, musher, child in sled, Chugach Mountains in background, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2000.014.294
(294)(John Kehoe and homestead Tanana, Sept 17 1914)
Keywords: farming
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2015.014.88crop
[two young Alaska Native girls wearing fur parkas and detachable hoods posed outside large building]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.014
B1990.014.5.Ed.1.4
"9757 - Education - Eskimo children in classroom; Rex Allen Rock in foreground; Point Hope; 15 May 1968; school"
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B1990.014.5.Ed.2.32
Kids square dance, D.R. & Holtz, Pied Piper School, Palmer, Jan. 1964. Photographer's number: 15713 [teacher in background holding camera]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B2013.075.38
Copper Center, 1966 [woman standing outside house]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B2013.075
B1990.014.5.Ed.2.38.5
"Schools, Kids and Teachers" [child lifting arms overhead; artwork, table, chairs, adult in left background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B2008.005.154
[students posed next to brick building, possibly Idaho? circa 1930s]
Collection: B2008.005
B1998.014.1.364
B82 (Anchorage, Denali School, grades up to 6th; at 9th & A street; 1 neg; 1 print) [children playing in snow in schoolyard; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.64
(Anchorage Schools Mountain View Elem)(16 Jan 1961)(10662)(Mountain View Elem School fromSW)
Keywords: education, school
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B2019.003.032
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Boys basketball team [boys wearing uniforms posed in front of Eklutna depot in winter, coach standing in center] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, Education, U.S. Government, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Indigenous, Indigenous students, Indigenous young men, Young men, Students, Indigenous athletes, Athletes, Basketball, Basketball team, Basketball team photo, Boys Basketball, Boys Basketball team, Boys Basketball team photo, Team photo, Basketball uniforms, Basketball jersey, Basketball coach, Sports, Winter, Waiting station, Eklutna Waiting Station, Alaska Railroad waiting station, Alaska Railroad depot, Alaska Railroad, Railroad depot
Collection: B2019.003
B1990.014.5.Const.31.10.6
(June 9, 1972; 4 negs. 2-1/4; Sewer; West intercept at Minnesota) [workers, concrete, equipment, trench, excavator, bulldozer, structures]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Const
B1990.014.5.Culture.5.65.2
"1962 Anchorage Festival of Music; Orchest; dupes" [children looking at artwork, woman carrying purse]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Culture
B1990.014.5.Culture.5.65.4
"1962 Anchorage Festival of Music; Orchest; dupes" [children in front of painting, woman talking to children]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Culture
B1990.014.5.Ed.1.5
"9756 - Education; Eskimo children in classroom; Point Hope; 15 May 1968; school]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B1990.014.5.Ed.2.36
"Education; Pied Piper preschool; Palmer; D.R. back; January 1964" [children at table near window, adult in background beneath flag]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B2015.007.16
[child asleep in bed with wooden frame, curtains drawn back]
Keywords: interiors
Collection: B2015.007
B1990.014.5.Ed.2.33
"15822 - Education Palmer; D.R. Photos; Deano Larsen; Pied Piper preschool; Insh Holtz; January 1964" [child drawing at easel, one under easel]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B1991.011.530
Newtok; Ida Hunter, school teacher, Indian Health Service; about 1949 [woman wearing parka stands in doorway; "301" sign near top; partially obstructed sign at right]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1990.014.5.Const.31.7.3
(May 22, 1972; Swalling/General Const. Co; Progress pictures on the Anchorage Sewage Treatment Plant, P. Woronzof; 10 negs.)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Const
B1990.014.5.Ed.1.10
"9751 - Education; Eskimo children in classroom; Point Hope 15 May 1968; school"
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B1990.014.5.Ed.2.35
Pied Piper preschool Palmer D.R. back January 1964
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B1995.014.51.9
[four men wearing ranger hats seated around camp fire in wooded area, Willow?]
Keywords: hiking, military, camping
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.14.5.People.12.014
People-Parades-Anchorage 7/47; 4th of July 47; 13 of 18 [women wearing gowns on float, one standing in front of rainbow, ferns, podium, flatbed pickup, parked in field; automobiles, houses in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1991.011.592
"Newtok, 1940s" [man and woman stand outside sod structure with wood and metal entrance; identified at 2019 AFN and 2019 village visit as William and Norma Andy]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1990.014.4.MF.TV.59.26
(play time recess after school always excite for Athapascan indian kids: Fort Yukon Alaska(13983)
Keywords: school, play, kids, education
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / Medium Format
B1990.014.4.MF.TV.59.30
(Athapascan children of the Kuchin Tribe of Indians FT Yukon Village Alaska)(15532)
Keywords: school, play, kids, education
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / Medium Format
B1990.014.4.MF.TV.59.31
(play time recess after school always excite for Athapascan indian kids: Fort Yukon Alaska(13983)
Keywords: school, play, kids, education
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / Medium Format
B1990.014.5.AkNative.21.5.1B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2014.009.1
Kotzebue 1957 [woman sitting outside walled tent, two young girls standing near]
Keywords: clothing, houses, residences
Collection: B2014.009
B1998.014.1.2163
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party, 2 adults and boy" [similar to .2162; boy wearing hearing devices stands on chair between mand and woman; man hands woman $250 check from Alaska District Engineers Federal Credit Union dated April 4, 1966]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Ed.2.43
"4252 - Education; Metlakatla Band; 5 March 1966; schools" [marching band inside gymnasium]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed