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B2008.014.Bedroom Reindeer Station
Looking into bedroom from living room. Kulukak, Alaska 1932
Collection: B2008.014
B1994.022.719
(Caribou near Fairbanks Alaska )
Keywords: wildlife
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.720
(Caribou near Fairbanks Alaska )
Keywords: wildlife
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2000.014.294
(294)(John Kehoe and homestead Tanana, Sept 17 1914)
Keywords: farming
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2017.002.19
[children and adults sitting in auditorium waiting to watch a movie, man standing at film projector in background, Barrow, 1956-1957]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2017.002
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
B1983.091.S1450.43
N C L TRIP: John Smith, Native Store Mgr at Hooper Bay Displays Mukluks (043, Business interior, clothing, portrait)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
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
B2007.005.6.A20
[group of men gathered in a steam vent, naked with wads of grass or straw in their mouths]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2013.066.258
Kayak frame, Kakhonak [dogs in foreground, small buildings in background, Kokhanok]
Keywords: boats, ethnotechnology, animals, transportation
Collection: B2013.066
B1990.014.2018.1.95.002
35-2 McMillan children [portait of child, possibly earing cookie; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.95.002
35-2 McMillan children [portait of child, possibly earing cookie; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.95.003
35-2 McMillan children [portait of child sittin in profile, looking toward camera; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.95.003
35-2 McMillan children [portait of child sittin in profile, looking toward camera; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.95.004
35-2 McMillan children [three children posing; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.95.004
35-2 McMillan children [three children posing; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.95.005
35-2 McMillan children [three children posing; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.95.005
35-2 McMillan children [three children posing; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.96.004
35-3 McMillan children [girl posing for portrait; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.96.004
35-3 McMillan children [girl posing for portrait; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1991.046.56
School children, Sh., 8/52 [four children holding “Dental Health” workbooks posed outdoors, Shaktoolik]
Collection: B1991.046
B1990.014.4.scn.5.ViewFromEast
(Mt McKinley, 20,326' is highest in North America & here seen from the east) [Denali, mountain]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_4_scn_5
B1998.014.1.2169
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; group photo" children and adults near a table; Easter baskets]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2170
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; group photo" [women and children gathered near a table]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1991.011.1166
Point Hope, 1946, sod igloos and terrain; Mary Louise & Esk[imo] children; old sod & whalebone house (igloo) [adults and children wearing parkas, mukluks pose in snow in front of structure]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1995.014.5.3
[portrait of man wearing parka with small ruff and mittens, snow pile in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
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
B2000.013A.s8.019
[from verso] "Newtok Aerial" "Calendar says 'Mekoryak' 1978" [aeriel view likely of village of Newtok; structures; river in Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta area; some snow on ground]
Collection: B2000.013A
B2000.014.295
(295)(John Kehoe and homestead, Tanana Sept 17 1914 with his team)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2013.066.259
Fish rack & clothes, Kakhonak 1962 [laundry and salmon on drying rack]
Collection: B2013.066
B2021.004.154
[Posing with snowman, Ed Wesley on right]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Winter, Snowman, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2022.005.206
[Young Indigenous Alaskan woman and man on boardwalk outside building]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young woman, Women, Young man, Man, Coat, Clothing, Outerwear, Glasses, Boardwalk, Building, Structure
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1930
(Sailboat on Lake Spenard) [bathers on beach next to shelter with sign prohibiting dogs and alcohol, people in water taking out sailboat, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.97.001
35-3 McMillan children [three children posing; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018