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B1989.016.725
Mrs. Lee, teacher of fur sewing [woman at table sewing fur boots, Eklutna Vocational School?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.41
D-55 [woman sewing by lantern light]
Keywords: crafts
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.25.41
[Wales, child sewing in classroom, circa 1906?]
Keywords: education
Collection: B1991.025 Burchett Collection
B1989.016.1097.4
P-173. Hewitt's (Sewing craft, Matanuska Valley Fair)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1097.2
P-172. Hewitt's (Sewing craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [afghan]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.22
D-23 [Alaska Native woman sitting indoors, sewing skin]
Keywords: crafts
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.242
D-73. Eskimo sewing class. [George Dale? White Mountain?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.244
Sewing mukluks. Hewitt's Photo Shop, D-59 [George Dale]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.4.003
Mother [woman sitting on sofa appears to be sewing; table in background; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.4.003
Mother [woman sitting on sofa appears to be sewing; table in background; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1097.3
P-171. Hewitt's (Sewing craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [scarves, mittens]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1097.6
P-175. Hewitt's (Sewing craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [quilt on bed]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1097.1
P-168. Hewitt's (Sewing craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [scarves, mittens, socks]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1097.5
P-174. Hewitt's (Sewing craft, Matanuska Valley Fair) [scarves, mittens, socks]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.1
P-486. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [quilt display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.10
P-498. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.2
P-487. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.5
P-493. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.9
P-497. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1926.3
(Fur Rondy 1952) [woman sitting in sewing exhibit booth during Anchorage Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.11
P-499. Hewitt's Photo (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [quilt display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.3
P-488. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [crafts and canning display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2010.023.698
"Nunivak illustrations, Skin preparation and sewing" [grass mats hang across drying rack; water in distance]
Collection: B2010.023
B1989.016.765.12
P-500. Hewitt's Photo (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [Handicrafts Department display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.6
P-494. Matanuska Valley Fair (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [Palmer Homemakers' Club display]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.7
P-495. Hewitt's (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) ["Clothing the Child for Health" display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1997.019.20full
The captain puts on his pendant made of pieces of whale meat sewed in pieces of seal skin, the whole village hurries to the
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1989.016.765.4
P-490. Hewitt's Photo (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [Mountain View Homemakers' Club display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.551
Newtok; Mrs. Otto Moses sewing; interior of Otto Moses sod igloo and wife sewing mukluks; copy neg [woman sewring; child sitting next to woman; child wearing parka at right; two seated people identified as Maryanne Hooper and David Moses]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2022.005.44
[Group of 6 Indigenous Alaskan girls in fur parkas (likely reindeer fur) posed inside room; treadle sewing table in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girls, Parka, Fur, Reindeer, Pelt, Hide, Skin, Room, Interior, Building, House, Sewing, Table, Sewing table, Treadle
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1459.3
(Native handicraft) [young girl on wooden bench in large room sewing parka, other women sitting along the wall. Nulato orphanage, 1937]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.765.8
P-496. Hewitt's Photo (Sewing Exhibit, Matanuska Valley) [Boys & Girls Department crafts and canning display, Palmer fairgrounds?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.014.103
[Alaska Native man seated outdoors at sewing machine, house and sled frame in background, photographer’s shadow in foreground, Nome? Paper with Velox stamp]
Collection: B2015.014
TV.202.3.5
(L)(Weir Negovanna Carver(R)(Mrs Negovanna is expert in sewing skin eskimo yo-yo's and miniture eskimo dolls in fur clothing in their summer tent at Wainwright, Alaska)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.2058.28
Alaska, Greetings from the Northland (Christmas Cards 1939) [Christmas card mat with sketch of totem pole and holly leaves, with photograph of student sewing mukluks, Eklutna Vocational School. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.68
(D-87?) [group of women, probably female students, sewing and cutting hides at table in large classroom with pictures of American presidents on the walls and notes about sense of smell and sense of taste on chalkboard]
Keywords: crafts, clothing, schools
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Home.2.087
2 225853 Home; House deep snow; Summit Sew Hiway; 26 February 1953 [winter scene; plowed roadway along Seward Highway; lower half of structure buried in snow]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Home
B1989.016.2058.25
Alaska, Greetings from the Northland (Christmas Cards 1939, Mrs. Lee) [Christmas card mat with sketch of totem pole and holly leaves, with photograph of woman sewing mukluks, Eklutna Vocational School. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1996.009.08full
As a precaution against evil influences likely to come from the sea, the captain puts a pendant on his back made of the top end of the tail of each whale killed by him. These are sewed in seal skin and will sustain life in case of famine at sea.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B2017.019.210
Elmendorf 29 Dec ’51 [Elanor sitting on floor, wearing formal gown that she was sewing in .207-208, Christmas tree at left, greeting cards mounted on wall, dish of nuts next to radio on shelf]
Collection: B2017.019
B1991.011.539
"Newtok; 1957; sod igloo; making Eskimo boots (mukluks) Interior of sod igloo - wall lined with split paper cartons; husband (at time) hospitalized w/T.B" [woman sewing boots while toddler sits next to her on sofa or bed]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.1370
(PT6 Seward; & print) [winter scene; woman standing at left foreground, snow, harbor, Resurrection Bay, ship,automobiles on pier; railroad depot, railroad cars on pier, engine, fuel tanks; businesses, including Sewing Machine Shop; mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2005.006.2
Little Diomede: Reading, writing and arithmetic are taught in the Government school; but bringing in the game from the Polar Pack and skin sewing is still more important than schooling to the future existence of these young citizens on Diomede Island. Oct. 30, 1950. Photo credit: Audrey and Frank Morgan.
Collection: B2005.006
B1991.011.539
"Newtok; 1957; sod igloo; making Eskimo boots (mukluks) Interior of sod igloo - wall lined with split paper cartons; husband (at time) hospitalized w/T.B" [woman sewing boots while toddler sits next to her on sofa or bed; identified in 2019 as Maryanne Hooper and David Moses]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2015.008.1203
A “dhursie,” or tailor. Probably a Bengalee from the dress. Barefoot, of course. Wages 16 to 32 cts. a day. Very unusual to see the treadle. Singer machines invade the East everywhere, but in India the usual sight is the hand attachment, the native and his machine both on the floor. [portrait of man sitting at sewing machine in street]
Keywords: tailor, sewing, sewing machine, India
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1780
[street scene of Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, looking east, with automobiles and signs for businesses including Sunshine Market, Alaskan Stationers and Publishing Co., Sewing Center, Piggly Wiggly, The Club, The Pioneer Club, OK Cleaners, 4th Avenue Theater, Empress Theater, Jade Room, Paddock Furniture, Anchorage Times]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1920
T168 Alaska's most important and longest street - famous 4th Ave at Anchorage. [winter street scene looking east on 4th Avenue near H Street; snow; automobiles, people walking on sidewalks; B&B Liquor Store; Anchorage Times; Paddock Furniture; Theatre; Alaskan Printing; The Rose Shop; Liquor; Sewing Machines; Piggly Wiggly Grocery; The Pioneer Club; palm tree (likely with neon lights on rooftop); McKinley Building in distance; Chugach Mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
