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B2015.008.268
six small bedrooms and two baths
Keywords: vermont, farm, farm house, interior
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.023.048
1944 [Men and woman at beach, sun bathing, bathing suits, Coca-Cola box, bottles]
Collection: B2017.023
B1970.019.217
View at Bathing Resort Anchorage Spenard Lake 1920
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1979.002.4845
{two men standing on the steps outside the Crystal Steam Bath building}
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1984.077.17.002
Baths [Street scene, bathhouse, rooms to rent, buildings, power lines]
Collection: B1984.077
B1994.022.774
(Fairbanks Alaska Third Ave Bath House Freight and Freightage Tractors)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.775
(Fairbanks Alaska Third Ave Bath House Freight and Freightage Tractors)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2000.014.809
(809)(Baby in bath WS Thompson family Kokrines June 20 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2017.023.104
[two women posing in bathing suits, water, mountains, snow in background]
Collection: B2017.023
B2017.023.111
[two women pose in bathing suits, dog, beach, mountain in background]
Collection: B2017.023
B1989.016.471.4
View of Fairbanks, 1939. [street scene with Soft Water Baths, Lillian's Beauty, Fairbanks Variety]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1040
E.D. 1. Cabin, bath in extension lately added. W. Hartford, Vt. [view across yard or
orchard to house]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.502
Little Freemans, July 1931 [four small children wearing bathing suits standing in river under bridge]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.2212
"Teddy bear on beach after his bath "Saturday night in AK" neg & print [bear cub on shore; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.500
In our pool, Franklin, Paul, Lorne, Walter [four small children wearing bathing suits standing in water feature in yard]
Collection: B2015.008
B2021.008.2
[group of seven people, five Indigenous youth and two white women, with a dog in bathing suits on a beach with trees in the background. Possibly Tyonek or Eklutna]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Swim
Collection: B2021.008 Myrtle Everett Bragaw
B1985.027.1453a
Originally in B4 F101. Wien Destinations. Kotz III. [Native woman in bathing suit on ice floe ice fishing.] 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1989.016.2053.39
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [4-H Club float decorated with club logos, with young women in bathing suits on back of truck, building in background]
Keywords: recreation, sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.4905
[Alaska Native woman wearing red corduroy fur-trimmed parka and bathing cap standing with two children, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.008.499
Susannah, Mary, Betty & George, July 4, 1931 [George with woman and two children on riverbank under bridge, George and girls in bathing suits]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1065
Bathing in the Susquehanna near camp_Camp Geo G Meade PA USA 1898[ view from bluff along beach man on horseback on beach at left swimmers in water in distance]
Keywords: swimming, horse, river, beach
Collection: B2015.008
B1962.001A.213
Looking up Keystone Ave., Valdez, Alaska [Copyright 1910? P.S. Hunt, G2585. 2 copies. Snyder (J. G.) Store; Hotel St. Elias; Imperial Hotel; Keystone Bath House; Hotel Phoenix]
Keywords: Valdez, Street scenes, Stores, Shops, Buildings, Businesses, Houses, Winter, Snowbanks, Snow berms, Hotels, Keystone Avenue, J.G. Snyder Store, Hotel St. Elias, Imperial Hotel, Keystone Bath House, Baths, Hotel Phoenix
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.2053.38
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [4-H Club float covered in foliage, with young women in bathing suits, holding golf clubs, or with rod and reel and creel, building in background]
Keywords: agriculture, animal husbandry, recreation, sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1878.2
[Winter view of Hotel Anchorage looking north on E Street between Third and Fourth Avenues, Anchorage, Richter's Bath House on left, with snow banks along street, Cook Inlet in distance]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1189
O44 Summer time in Alaska {1946 postcard (people at lake beach)} [similar to .1177, Green Lake Park, Fort Richardson/Elmendorf Field; service men, women, uniforms, bathing suits, swim platform, pennant style banner]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1967.019.23d
"Labor Day Parade" Anchorage, Alaska, 1920-29? [man leading seld dog team pulling wheeled sled down dirt street; Anchorage Cafe & Bakery, Bathes, Barber shop, Polley Bros General Store; spectators]
Collection: B1967.019 CIHS Isaacs
B1989.016.2053.19
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932, 13) [young girl wearing bathing suits and holding ice cream cone sitting on fender of automobile festooned with banners and crepe, sign on front bumper for Hewitt's Photo Shop, building in background]
Keywords: businesses, food, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.13
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932, 13) [two young girls wearing bathing suits and holding ice cream cones standing next to automobile festooned with banners and crepe, sign on front bumper for Hewitt's Photo Shop, businesses in background, probably Fourth Avenue, Anchorage]
Keywords: food, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1199
Benares. “Ghats” (= gawts). A ghat is a flight of steps into the river used for bathing or washing, or worshipping. This is the R. Ganges, so sacred that it is an object of pilgrimage from all India. Nearly every rajah has a palace on it. Here a Hindu wishes to die & have his corpse burned. We saw all these things going on. The peaked buildings are temples. Palaces at top [view across river to opposite bank]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.710
247.3. A rubber bath tub, used by Alaska prospectors in a cabin far in the wilds, for
laundry as well as [three men seated in log cabin, man in center smoking pipe and leaning
over, man at right wearing bib overalls and cleaning duck, man in center reading newspaper
possibly George, Towle’s Log Cabin Syrup on table at left, ladder in background, gear hanging
on walls. Caption lightly erased. Print cropped with loss of caption]
Keywords: cabin interior
Collection: B2015.008
B2018.023.018a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print photograph: “Broadway, Ruby, Alaska. A typical mining camp business street”] [street view of Ruby; mud street, firewood at right; wood boardwalks, cabins; structures; men walking along boardwalk, street; automobile; possible horse cart; businesses: L'aundry; Ruby Bakery and Cafe; A. Haarvei Outfitter & Grocer; possible Music Store; Post Office; The Senate; Baths; Dentist; banners hung over street; flagpoles and flags; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.018b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide] [from verso of print photograph: “Broadway, Ruby, Alaska. A typical mining camp business street”] [street view of Ruby; mud street, firewood at right; wood boardwalks, cabins; structures; men walking along boardwalk, street; automobile; possible horse cart; businesses: L'aundry; Ruby Bakery and Cafe; A. Haarvei Outfitter & Grocer; possible Music Store; Post Office; The Senate; Baths; Dentist; banners hung over street; flagpoles and flags; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1950
T188 (Anchorage, 4th Ave, Winter, 1952; caption: Newest skyline along Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska) [street scene looking east from 4th and C Street; women walking at far right; automobiles; bus #40 “Spenard Area,” license plate 53480; businesses: The Mint Bar, Fly ATA; Bar Corral, Denali Theater, Aleutian Gardens Cocktails, Fine Food, Dancing; Lido Café, Dick’s Lounge, Blue Moon Hotel; Aleutian Lanes Bowling; Monty’s Furniture & Clothing; Blue Mirror Bar Lounge; Alaska Cleaners; Hotel; City [?]ke’s Cocktail Lounge, Barber Shop, Shower, Baths; McKinley Buliding in background; Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1642
T35 Brickley, Anchorage - Alaska (4th Ave. 1948 postcard 300 - 3 1 print; 2 negs) [street scene looking west from center of gravel street with puddles; people walking, automobiles, businesses: City Hotel, with Coca Cola advertisement, Mike’s Cocktail Bar, Matanuska Valley Bus Line Depot, North Star Liquor Store, Hotel Travler, Brass Rail Bar and Café, Machine Shop Gunsmithing, Lunch Room, Cleaners, Hotel Lane, Café, Pay ‘n Takit Meats Groceries, The Village Bar, Anchorage Checker Cab, Custom Leather Shop, Big Dipper, Anchorage Dairy, Liquor store, Union Steam Bath & Rooms, New York Sandwich Shop, Bar and Café, Schodde’s, Quality Grocery & Market Delicatessen, Grasser’s Hardware, Bus Terminal; Possibly unfinished 4th Avenue Theatre under construction in left distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley