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B1990.14.5.Animals.24.023
Animals: reindeer. Copy - reindeer. [reindeer on a hill, snow]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Animals
B2017.029.1857
[man and children sitting next to drummers, children with cans of Crush soda pop; print date Mar 79. Cf. .1836a]
Collection: B2017.029
B1989.016.946
P-556. Matanuska Valley. Hewitt's Photo Shop [aerial]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1108.8
P-59. Hewitt's (Buildings in early Palmer) [man on bulldozer leveling land next to wood frame garage or barn, with second building in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.7.25
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1994.022.854
(people)( a man dressed in Arabic dress)
Keywords: costume
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1998.014.1.1643
T35 Brickley, Anchorage - Alaska (1948 postcard, 300 - 3) [similar to .1642]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2002.019.934B
[from verso} pub 53 [man wearing hooded jacket and rucksack stands on rocky overlook; mountains, likely river in distance; Machetanz]
Collection: B2002.019
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.5.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 5
B1989.016.StovallWm.1
(Stovall Wm Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1998.014.1.412
B119 Pioneer Hardware Bldg, Homer, Alaska [gravel road, trees, water in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1124
O15 Mastadon tusk - University of Alaska (1949 postcard) [copy neg; Fairbanks; man carrying tusk over his shoulders; tusks laying on the ground in left side of image, structures in backgroud, birch trees]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.EricksonAlbert.1
[Erickson Albert Passport Photos 1942]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.004.04594
Our dogs slept the blizzard out with no protection. Photographer's number: 04594.
Keywords: animals, transportation, winter, weather, snow
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.79
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B2016.019.1.03d.05043.15
Round Table pizza interior [Anchorage - Buildings - Round Table Pizza], 1985
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Buildings, Round Table Pizza, Restaurants
Collection: B2016.019
B90.14.5.ARR.2.157
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B90.14.5.ARR.1.219
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B2017.029.1857
[man and children sitting next to drummers, children with cans of Crush soda pop; print date Mar 79. Cf. .1836a]
Collection: B2017.029
B1990.014.2018.1.62.004
24-2 Chief Johnson's totem [bird's eye view of totem surrounded by structures, businesses, domiciles; Mother's Kitchen at lower left; potted plants on roof; stairways and boardwalks; Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1970.073.021
Trading with the Esquimaux. Observe the stone ornaments the man has in his lips. They are inserted from the inside, a shoulder preventing it from coming all the way through. Photo by C.W. Mathers, Edmonton [man wearing parka with tusk gussets and labrets with woman wearing Yupik-style parka, both standing next to tent, child peeking out from tent flap, trader at right holding scrimshawed knife or story knife]
Collection: B1970.073 Minnesota Historical Collection
B1998.014.1.2503
"Construction; April 1963 (new snow)" [earthmovers; dragline excavator; structure in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
TV.202.6.5
Ron Senungetuk teaches Wainwright Eskimo art of carving in soapstone at Wainwright, Program of University of Alaska
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.2018.1.154.002
50-4; Sun thru smoke [smoke rising from structures, water and bird in flight in foreground; likely 1940, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.250
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
