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B1990.014.004.animals.24.36489
Reindeer amble along a road about 25 miles east of Nome, Alaska: rangifer tarandus.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B1990.014.4.AnchorageSkyline1982
Aug 18 1982 [Anchorage Skyline]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1973.079.122
[Boy and possibly his parents standing on the dock in St Michael. The boy has a fishing pole and several fish on a stringer that he is holding up for the photographer][negative is out of focus]
Keywords: fishing, docks, wharf
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.033
On Bering Sea near Nome [team of sled dogs and three people] [orig neg only]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.121
[Two women seated on porch steps talking to an officer]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1998.014.1.2160
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party, 2 children and adults" [actually, three children, women showing dolls to children, Easter baskets]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.005.225
[Indigenous Alaskan woman in dress standing outside house; person in shorts leaning over by house doorway. Woman likely Elva "Willie" Amidon]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Women, Dress, Lipstick, Makeup, Purse, House, Home, Building, Person, Shorts, Clothing, Door, Doorway, Residence, Elva Amidon, Elva "Willie" Amidon, Willie Amidon
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.004.animals.24.36472
Reindeer, rangifer tarndus, yoiung bull not of breeding age.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B1990.14.5.People.12.042
People-Parades-Anchorage 4/4/47 1755-9c; Boy Scout float - camping scene - in 4th July parade 1947 [flatbed truck with trees, plants, scouts on float, "Sponsored by Catholic Church Crimont Society," spectators, Food Center, people on roofs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1990.014.5.Ed.2.38.3a
"Schools, Kids and Teachers" [children playing indoors]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B1998.014.1.2172
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; children w/baskets" [children seated at table talk with two women; jacks game]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.005.123
[Four Indigenous Alaskan Elders wearing parkas, gloves, and mukluks outside midwinter]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, People, Group, Elders, Men, Women, Parka, Fur, Ruff, Clothing, Outerwear, Gloves, Mukluks, Footwear, Winter, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.124
[Five Indigenous Alaskan Elders wearing parkas, gloves, and mukluks outside midwinter]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, People, Group, Elders, Men, Women, Parka, Fur, Ruff, Clothing, Outerwear, Gloves, Mukluks, Footwear, Winter, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.2164
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party, 2 adults and boy" [similar to .2163]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2189
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, Federal crusade treatment center; one chile and one adult" [child with crutches stands next to woman holding cake; calendar in background displays April; April 9, 1963; see .2191 for date]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.002.46
Keywords: AMA, Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage Museum Association, www.anchoragemuseum.org
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1983.091.S4187.182
Walrus Island trip. Walrus at Round Island in Walrus Island Group. (4x5 neg of massed walrus) [walruses hauled out on beach] May 1964
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.2155
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; 2 children and one adult" [woman holds two toddlers, one holding small purse]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2165
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party, girl with basket" [girl wearing glasses sitting at table with basket; doll; firetruck at left]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.266.005
82-5 Bob & Marjorie Baker on beach [man smoking pipe and reading, reclined; woman seated; August 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2022.003.38
C 86 56, Mary Lu and Malia [two Indigenous youth standing for a portrait wearing western style dresses and fur boots]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Youth, Boots, Fur, Portrait
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
B1990.014.5.Ed.2.31
Kids square dance, Pied Piper School, Palmer, Jan. 24, 1964. Photographer's number: 15715
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ed
B1995.010.3265
[Steve McCutcheon handing out balloons to group of Alaska Native children, sawhorse in background, Kaltag?]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.2152
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party, Girl" [girl wearing checked dress wearing leg braces holds paper, portable television on table]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2153
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party, 1 child" [child wearing hearing aids (?) possibly eating candy, holding basket containing doll; adults in background; metal cart with telephone, books at right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2171
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; group photo" [women, man, and children gathered around a table; Easter baskets]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2151
"X9, A Sourdough soldier's sunset (fishing)" [same as .2149]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2157
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party, group photo" [four children sit around table with Easter baskes as adults look on]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2184
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; two boys with harmonicas" [one black child, one white child sitting at desks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.025.836
[view from ship of ice in Port of Anchorage in winter, downtown visible in distance; print date Mar 66
Collection: B2015.025
B2015.025.844
[view from porthole of docks along Ship Creek in winter; person standing at left; print date Mar 66]
Collection: B2015.025
B1983.091.S3017.085
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [Man with six baby walrus captured for San Diego zoo; walruses huddled on wood and possibly a walrus hide; steel barrels and tarps in background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S3017.093
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [Walruses on ice floe, water]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2067.3
(Color Art Printing under construction, 1965, 430 W 7th Ave.) [street scene at E Street and 7th Avenue, with view of construction site, pedestrian walkway and signs for Color Art Printing Co. and Locher Construction Company, automobiles parked along curbs, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.50.002
20-3 Princess Alice; 105 mm [passengers aboard Canadian Pacific Railway steamship; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.50.002
20-3 Princess Alice; 105 mm [passengers aboard Canadian Pacific Railway steamship; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1311.color
(O92 "Your sad story touched my heart") [Eastman mask chart layout for greeting card with text, man]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2174
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; children w/baskets" [similar to .2172]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2175
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; 2 children and adult" [children and woman sit at table with Easter baskets, jacks game]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2188
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, Federal crusade treatment center; 3 children and 1 adult" [similar to .2187; April 1963; see .2191 for date]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.5732
Anchorage [summer view of residential area, possibly Clarissa at left, Fairview, 1940s. has neg]
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.005.1
Anchorage, Alaska, Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm. Anchorage Photo Supply, photo by Don C. Knudsen [aerial looking west, Merrill Field in foreground]
Collection: B2017.005
B1989.016.2068.12
(Cub Scouts, 9/19/??) [people and Cub Scouts at tables in a large hall, banquet ceremony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2068.14
(Cub Scouts, 9/19/??) [people and Cub Scouts at tables in a large hall, banquet ceremony. possible double exposure; boy in motion in foreground]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2068.2
(Cub Scouts, 9/19/??) [two women standing with young boys in Cub Scout uniforms in front of man at microphone wearing Native American Indian-style dress, in large hall during ceremony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection