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B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.74.4A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.5311
[Groundbreaking for Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.5.AKNative.25.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.22.34
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.288.5
Tonsina Road House. Hewitt's Photo Shop. [interior with fireplace]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.176.3
Curry Hotel, dining room, A.R.R. Hewitt's 26. [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.LottFrank.1
(Lott Frank Passport Photos 1945)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.2018.1.168.005
56-5; portrait of Wilma Collins; 90 mm [1940; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.114.2
Abby Stepanoff, Russian Mission [woman wearing headscarf seated inside drying rack cleaning salmon]
Keywords: fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.012.204
1955 Fur Rendezvous [three Alaska Native women wearing fur parkas standing outdoors. b&w negative]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.012
B1990.014.5.P.25.86.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P25
B1983.091.S1641.3
Loussac Memorial Library, Interiors 6-10-55 (5 Negs) [Irene Griffith, far right, served as first permanent city librarian.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2014.016.1901
Kotzebue, arriving in plane formerly owned by Gene Autry – Native children meet all planes mostly to ride on tractor-drawn sled which is only airport transportation. Note: it is wiser to walk the ½ mile over path thru tundra to town [group of children and adults gathered near small airplane, tail number NC59233, parked on airstrip, buildings in background; at AFN 2014, plane identified as belonging to Bob Baker’s Baker Airlines]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2014.016
B2015.023.51
[soldiers in military uniform and Alaska Native women standing on Nome street, World War II]
Collection: B2015.023
B2022.005.252
[one white man in military uniform standing in from of a building with a sign that reads: "Headquarters, Alaska Command"]
Keywords: Alaska, military
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
