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B1989.016.2535.1
An Alaskan beauty. Bragaw's 43 [girl in parka]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1970.019.711
L to R John Porter Frankie & Robert? Anchorage Alaska 10/17/26
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B2019.007.413
Nondalton, March 23, 1993 [woman wearing winter coat with hood examines her hands; mittens; snow]
Collection: B2019.007
B1995.010.3282
[Alaska Native children, some holding balloons, standing on riverbank at village, wood-plank ramp in center, corrugated metal buildings above, Tanana? Cf. .3211]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1333
PA10 At the time of the Japanese invation the population of the Aleutian Islands was mainly blue foxes. Trappers stocked the islands and as a rule returned once a year during trapping season. (Blue fox in the Aleutians) [snow, quonset in background, structure]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.029.1926
[woman sitting on steps of house, with all-terrain vehicles, meat on drying racks; print date Jul 90]
Collection: B2017.029
B1983.091.S4827.38
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 5/70 [man posed outside]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2532.1
Mt. Foraker, Alaska 17,100 ft. c. G.L. Johnson [negative brittle and cracking]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1995.010.3047
[Alaska Native man and two young boys on porch of building, one boy blowing bubbles with bubblegum. Cf. .3019]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.5503
[Alaska Marine Highway ferry, possibly Taku, at dock, Russian Orthodox cross in cemetery in foreground; print date Dec 75]
Collection: B1995.010
B2011.007.8.100
Kipnuk, Alaska. 1930s [view of village from distance]
Collection: B2011.007 Mary Breu Etta Jones Collection
B2022.004.1
A Star Airlines [?] taken at Rainy Pass NC19831 (Plane crashed and burned Sept 14 1939? Pilot killed.)
Keywords: Star Air Lines, Star Air Service, Alaska Airlines, Planes, Airplanes, Commercial Aeronautics
Collection: B2022.004 Weissinger Star Air Lines Photograph
B2015.019.20
May & Brian [woman with young boy wearing striped shirt with “Hosp.” written on it, standing next to building. Cf. .44]
Collection: B2015.019
B1998.014.1.573
E12 Eskimo Summer "Natives in boats" [same as .572, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2019.007.435
Nondalton, March 23, 1993 [girls basketball; gymnasium; bleachers; spectators]
Collection: B2019.007
B1983.091.S4827.126
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 5/70 [men drumming]
Keywords: dancers, dancing
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S5122.197
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 5/73 [students painting in classroom]
Keywords: art
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S5122.351
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 5/73 [students in classroom]
Keywords: education
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2083.4
(Fourth of July Parade, Anchorage, 1935) [spectators lined up along Fourth Avenue near E Street, with automobile in foreground and signs for businesses including Walt's Transfer, Bragaw's, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Kennedy's, and Logemann Bldg.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2083.5
(Fourth of July Parade, Anchorage, 1935) [spectators watching Alaska Railroad float pass on Fourth Avenue near F Street, with banners hanging over road and signs for businesses including Hotel Gitchell, Ship Creek Meat Co.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2083.6
(Fourth of July Parade, Anchorage, 1935) [spectators watching automobiles with floats pass on Fourth Avenue near E Street, with signs for businesses including Bragaw's, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Kennedy's, Logemann Bldg., North Pole Bakery, Sultan Bldg.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.212.3
Fairbanks ice carnival (Carnival series) [dog team under bridge]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.212.4
Fairbanks ice carnival (Carnival series) [scenery]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.241
D-27. Ice covered crosses in the White Mountain cemetery. [George Dale?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.3446
[Steve McCutcheon and Phyllis McCutcheon in riverboat pulling away from village on shore, red pickup truck parked next to dock]
Collection: B1995.010
B2008.013.90
[men and women on swings at rest area or small park, redwood trees in background]
Collection: B2008.013
B2016.004.13.16
Barrow, 89883, May 1980 [man at Eugene Brower's whaling camp]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.023.3
[family posed with Jeep, trailer, and automobile, Topeka. Left to right: FL, Frankie, Betty, Jim, friend Bill Keegan, Vicki]
Collection: B2016.023
B2017.024.2087
King Island, copyright 1986 [Scene at hunting camp; people eating, sitting under umiak, supplies, guns]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.156.005
51-3; fishermen in skiff [man in rowboat, oars, likely near Saxman, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.570
E11 Blanket tossing, an Eskimo game [same as .569, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.005.37
[Indigenous Alaskan Elder with young man standing outside structure]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Man, Elder, Young man, Outside, Structure, Building
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.308
81. Graizing Lands, Hope, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [i.e., Grazing Lands. Horses grazing in field]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.120
"Eek 1949; 'Cache'" [winter scene with caches, fishing nets, barrels, possbly upturned boats]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection