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B2022.005.5
[Back view of person wearing long, fur parka and mukluks; decorative, light-tone trim along parka seams; building at right background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Person, Parka, Fur, Mukluks, Trim, Decorative, Clothing, Outerwear, Building
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2141.23
D-25 [village in winter, with low scrub brush and view to unbroken horizon]
Keywords: villages
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1997.003.132
[two men at work site, one wearing billed cap backward, "U.S.E.D. D.15" on cab of tracked vehicle, powerlines in the distance to the right of image]
Collection: B1997.003
B2022.005.147
[View from car down 4th Avenue, Anchorage]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, View, Street, Road, Cars, Vehicles, Tranportation, 4th Ave, 4th Avenue, Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Downtown, Businesses, 4th Avenue Theater, Eatery, Restaurant, Empress Theatre
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1995.014.119.11
Yukon Health boat for doctors and nurses [riverboat Yukon Health at dock, three skiffs with outboard motors on beach in foreground]
Keywords: boats, medicine, health
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2141.1
D-1 (Village scene from river) [blurry view of people gathered along frozen river, with village buildings along rise behind, possibly taken from taxiing airplane?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.009.9
Looking back to town on Fourth [pedestrians walking down sidewalk in winter, buildings on either side of street Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B2015.009
B2017.029.2008
[woman wearing Yup’ik headdress and using dance fans lying on floor of gymnasium; print date Feb 77]
Collection: B2017.029
B2022.005.221
Doris, 11 yrs old, 1971. [Wallet-size portrait studio image (possibly school picture) of Doris, a young Indigenous Alaskan girl]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Preteen, Portrait, Studio portait, School picture, School photo, Young woman, Girl
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2013.074.211
Sep 75p5 [Woodside Village Apts.; view of apartment buildings, field and road in foreground]
Collection: B2013.074
B2015.007.103
[Alaska Native man and woman seated outdoors between building and metal barrel, both wearing Western style clothing, man holding guitar, woman holding balalaika]
Keywords: musical instruments
Collection: B2015.007
B1998.014.1.1732
(T69 Cordova, off city dock, 1948) [scenic view looking over water of pilings, structures, boats, mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.172
[distant view of wooden trestle bridge in winter, track signal in foreground, broom and shovel stuck in snow bank. Cf. .183, .210]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.061
Scn 10658; Linda Chavis & Jane Haycraft at Portage Glacier; CPS; 20 July 1968; glacier. [similar to 1.060]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.142
Scn 7492; Portage Glacier w/figure; 26 April 1958
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.1938
Transport Henderson. G.L. Johnson, Anchorage, Alaska [U.S.S. Henderson underway]
Keywords: ships
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.24
D-26 (Native hieroglyphics) [photograph of sheet of paper with pictorial writing tacked to a wall]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.2.10
Willow and people [machinery parked in a field next to a small corrugated metal shed, low hills in distance, agriculture? mining?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.52.1
Eagle Salverson, trapper at Fort Yukon [musher with three dog team pulling loaded sled on winter trail]
Keywords: transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.948
L105 Shishaldin Volcano, Aleutian island (1949 postcard) [aerial view of Mt Shishaldin, Unimak Island,snow, steam, ash]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1983.091.S4176.105
Woman climbing out of window above Denali restaurant on ladder. 4th and B.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1995.014.5.5
Paul Oksook baling fish [man standing outdoors, stringing dried fish]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.135.006
45-4; Mose - Hall's dog [two dogs play in grass; 1940, likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2045.3
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska ("Seaska" airmail non-stop flight, June 20, 1936, powered with Plymouth car engine seized by U.S. Marshal, Juneau, for non-payment of gas bill in Cordova. 1985, still stored in Juneau) [bird's eye view of crowd gathered next to Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe airplane parked in gymnasium, writing on plane reads in part "Seattle-Alaska Last Airmail Frontier Trail Blazed by the Seattle Washingtonians"]
Keywords: aviation, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.52.10
[two men wearing snowshoes posed outdoors during snowstorm, pine trees in background]
Keywords: transportation, footwear
Collection: B1995.014
B2013.007.020
[Photographic postcard] Stampeders – off for Ruby. Lomen [passengers and cargo in flat-bottomed riverboat, flume visible emptying into river on opposite bank]
Collection: B2013.007
B2015.007.110
[Alaska Native family posed outdoors, wearing traditional and Western style clothing, one man wearing eyeglasses, young man wearing necktie and holding driving cap]
Collection: B2015.007
B1979.002.Album1.314
V. M. Eaton. D. L. Reaburn [man standing in tent at table with rolled maps, books, ink bottles, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1997.003.142
[Hand in center of image; man sitting on rocks in right midground; man at left; quarry scene]
Collection: B1997.003
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.054
Scn 23860 Air; Portage River & Resort; 14 August 1974; Portage Glacier & Lake [aerial view of lake, outlet to creek, icebergs, automobiles in parking lot, roads, valley]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1972.046.131
712.Teams starting from Dyea for canyon, Chilkoot Ry. & T. Co., April 24, 99. E. A. Hegg [several horse-drawn wagons stopped outside three-story wood-frame building in Dyea, water visible in distance]
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B1998.014.1.1843
{T129 Fairbanks (at 2nd & Cushman)} [similar to .1839]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley