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B1975.090.033
From verso: BuAer 78303 Aug 1943. Conference of US and Canadian Army and Navy Chiefs before the landing on Kiska.
Collection: B1975.090
B2022.005.227
[Young couple in uniform (possibly Civil Air Patrol or US Air Force) holding hands outside concrete building; other men in uniform nearby]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Couple, Pair, Young man, Man, Men, Young woman, Woman, Uniform, Building, Concrete, Civil Air Patrol, CAP, C.A.P., USAF, U.S.A.F., US, Air Force, Clothing
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.5.People.20.18
(People Rondy Queens Rondy Queen giving Bill Bap coronet, McClain is Queen)
Keywords: fur rondy
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1998.014.1.741
"K12 McKinley Recreational Camp horseplay" [man walking stooped over toward man who is laughing, horse hindquarters in right foreground, military transport truck in left background, structures in right distance, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.006.40
And there’s the ferry “Taku” below in the Wrangell Narrows [aerial; print date Aug 66]
Collection: B2016.006
B2015.008.1200
An “ekka”, the usual native conveyance “up country” in India. Law limits the capacity to six, which seems to be the usual number. Space really for only one. I had to ride to an out of the way palace at Jeypore in one yesterday. At Kapurthalla our 3 trunks and 4 bags went 7 m. in one for 50 cts. [three men riding in horse-drawn cart]
Collection: B2015.008
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
B1989.016.2186.5
(Sid's Dog Racing, Feb. 28, 1967) [musher leading five-dog team down Anchorage street past spectators, some people standing in trees along street, Fur Rendezvous sled dog races. Photo by Sidney Hamilton]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2186.3
(Sid's Dog Racing, Feb. 28, 1967) [female musher leading dog team down Anchorage street past spectators, some people standing in trees along street, Fur Rendezvous sled dog races. Photo by Sidney Hamilton]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.456b
"Nelson Island: Umkumiut, E. Clements photographer, Dup" [same as .455]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2018.023.046a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [woman wearing kuspuk and mukluks carries a baby on her back as she walks through sand; canvas wall tents, structures, clotheslines in background; possibly Nome; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.046b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: woman wearing kuspuk and mukluks carries a baby on her back as she walks through sand; canvas wall tents, structures, clotheslines in background; possibly Nome; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1997.003.121
[bird's eye view of railroad tracks, locomotive engine, drag line, rail cars]
Collection: B1997.003