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B1998.014.1.642
Visiting Eskimos to the Anchorage Rendezvous "E57 Diomede Eskimos at Anchorage, 1950" [Fur Rendezvous, similar to .641]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1994.022.676
(Copper and Northwestern Railway-Snow plow)(Engine number 74)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1998.014.1.1214
O54 An Alaskan totem honoring President Lincoln; photo by Frank Morgan (1949 postcard and print) [Saxman Totem Park]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1215
O54 An Alaskan totem honoring President Lincoln; photo by Frank Morgan (1949 postcard and print) [copy neg, Saxman Totem Park]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.019.1.01f.10618.22
New Alaska Commercial store in Dutch Harbor, Alaska [Alaska Cities - Unalaska], 1994
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Cities, Unalaska, Dutch Harbor
Collection: B2016.019
B1973.079.150
[Mrs Cron in fur parka standing in front of ice blocks]
Keywords: ice, winter, parka
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B2016.019.1.01e.13038.28
Overview of Sand Point, Alaska, [Alaska Cities - Sand Point], c. 1999
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Cities, Sand Point
Collection: B2016.019
B1998.014.1.1213
O53 An Alaskan Haida house; photo by Frank Morgan (1948 postcard and print) [copy neg; Totem Bight Community House, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.154
[Three Native Alaskans and several reindeer standing by sled in the snow]
Keywords: winter, reindeer, native, eskimo, central yupik natives, parkas
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1989.016.2260.6
(Air Show at Merrill Field, 1949) [airplanes in flight over field]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2260.7
(Air Show at Merrill Field, 1949) [airplane coming in for landing, Chugach Mountains in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2260.8
(Air Show at Merrill Field, 1949) [airplane coming in for landing, Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.004.594
(Martha Krukoff St Paul Pribilof AK){woman in kitchen sitting at table with large bowl of meat}
Keywords: food, cooking, kitchen, blender
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.597
St. Paul, Pribilofs, AK [young boy preparing to fly kite; print date Aug 84]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2016.004
B1989.016.2260.9
(Air Show at Merrill Field, 1949) [airplane coming in for landing, Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1973.079.141
[unknown mountainous and rocky coastline as seen from the rail of a vessel sailing offshore][negative cracked]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B2016.004.96.144
Valley Feature 4/18, 7904182-7904183, McKinley Farm, 4/22, 7904225-7904227 [157 b&w images. Photo essay “Pioneer Dentist” ran in Anchorage Daily News on April 24, 1979.Lee and Doris McKinley with patient in dental office]
Collection: B2016.004
B1964.001.095
A Dawson dance hall [View of men and women dancing at dance hall in Dawson, Yukon Territory. From verso: "Florodora." Postcard (color). Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 4 3/8"]
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B1998.014.1.576
E14 Eskimo girls of King Island "1947 postcard" [six girls, kuspuks, fur trim, driftwood, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.577
E14 Eskimo girls of King Island "1947 postcard" [same as .576, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.619
E40 On the Alaska Hiway "Alaska Highway Travelers; Native & Dogs; Frank Morgan photo" Man wearing leather jacket, cap, glasses, decorative belt poses on hill on gravel road, restraining two dogs carrying packs, chains, tree stumps in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2019.007.463
Subsistence herring inside drying shed, spring, Togiak. Print date May 16, 1991.
Collection: B2019.007
B1962.001A.138007
(E283)(dupe) Copper River Natives Alaska (Horse Creek Mary in the middle)
Keywords: native alaskan, portrait
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1998.014.1.1294
(O85 Anchorage Circus, July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus; women riding on elephants, view from behind spectators]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.004.962
Cleaning the shoreline, Bethel, AK [excavator removing junk automobiles piled along shore, man sitting on bluff at right; print date Sep 84]
Keywords: erosion, climate change, debris
Collection: B2016.004
B1998.014.1.1207
O51 An Alaskan totem; photo by Frank Morgan (1948 postcard & print) [copy neg; Giant Rock Oyster Memorial, Saxman, depicts man with hand caught in oyster at bottom of pole]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1208
O51 An Alaskan totem; photo by Frank Morgan (1948 postcard) [copy neg; same as .1207]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1408
S16 Alaskan Fish Fry "Ala Gee eye" (Alaska fishing; ADC) [copy neg, cropped version of .1407]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.007.33
[white man and woman standing outdoors in front of house. Original image blurry]
Collection: B2015.007
B2018.021.621
Kodiak? 50s [fishing boat Adalee at warehouse dock, man standing on dock, breakwater at left, large buildings on hillside in background]
Collection: B2018.021
B2019.007.462
Subsistence herring inside drying shed, spring, Togiak. Print date May 16, 1991.
Collection: B2019.007
B2015.007.30
[studio portrait of Alaska Native family, men wearing Western style clothing and knitted caps, elser woman wearing fur parka and headscarf, young woman wearing print parka and headscarf, child wearing Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.63
[group portrait of large group of Alaska Natives posed on tundra, possibly in front of biplane]
Collection: B2015.007
B1962.001A.142
Copper River Native, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E280 [studio portrait of Ahtna man. Ahtena Indians] [Indigenous Alaskan man, likely Ahtna. Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Ahtena, Indigenous, Man, Portrait, Studio, Copper River, Atna, BIPOC
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1998.014.1.1293
Anchorage goes to its first circus (O85, July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus; elephants and woman perform in center ring, spectators on bleachers, businesses in background: Ball Bearings Roller, The National Cash Register Co., Bigler's Vacuum Sales & Service, City Fuel; cold Beer, Liquor Store, D & D Lounge, McAllister Signs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.552
D39 The popular Norris team at Anchorage "Natalie Norris and team (from Kodachrome) [copy neg, same as .551]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1962.001A.143
Copper River Native, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E282 [studio portrait of young Ahtna man. Ahtena Indians] [Indigenous Alaskan man, likely Ahtna. Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Ahtena, Indigenous, Man, Portrait, Studio, Copper River, Atna, BIPOC
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1998.014.1.575
E13 Eskimo Girls, King Island "Hilcher's shot, 1941" [Hilscher, same as .574; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2019.007.459
Drying subsistence seal, ptarmigan, spring, Togiak. Print date May 16, 1991.
Collection: B2019.007
B1998.014.1.1190
O44 summertime in Alaska {1946 postcard (people at lake beach)} [similar to .1177 and .1189]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1962.001A.141
Copper River Native, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E286 [verso:] Chief Goodletaw [studio portrait of Ahtna man. Ahtena Indians] [Indigenous Alaskan man, likely Ahtna. Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Ahtena, Indigenous, Man, Blanket, Portrait, Studio, Copper River, Chief Goodletaw, Chief, Goodletaw, BIPOC, Atna
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1998.014.1.462
D3 Alaskan travel by dog team "Ed Holm's dog team" [possible copy neg; flipped version of .460, .461]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley