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B1970.019.679
[child holding fishing reel next to canvas tent on gravel bar near river]
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B2007.005.5.78a
67 [sealskin pokes on sled, Native women, children, canvas wall tent; stereoscope]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1990.014.2018.1.229.004
71-3 Sitka tent house [canvas wall tent, other structures in forest; possibly fabric hanging on clothesline; August 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1396.1
49. Shelter tent and cache, McKinley National Park. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [walled tent and canvas covered cache]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1984.077.1.001
[Truck parked near canvas wall tent, fuel tanks, barrels, and road. Mountains in background.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1995.025.052
[from verso] Terminal yards Anchorage 1916 [view of wood structures, canvas tents; bridge acros Ship Creek]
Collection: B1995.025
B1990.014.2018.1.229.005
71-3 Sitka tent house [man carrying bucket near canvas wall tent, other structures in forest; possibly fabric hanging on clothesline; August 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.2596
Slater's camp Fresno Creek; Hettel's [man stands outside canvas wall tent next to horse and bucket; stovepipe
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.3040
July 1983, aerials, villages [shoreline with canvas wall structures, tent, roads, waterways, ponds, tundra, mountain in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.2594
Camp and supplies in route to Valdez Creek Alaska "Mining" [winter scene with canvas wall tents, structures; tributary to Susitna River]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.934
[two men seated next to small walled tent in wooded area, same men as in log cabin
images .923 and .929, both men wearing canvas parkas with fur trim, man at right with
mustache]
Keywords: camping, tent
Collection: B2015.008
B1984.077.1.025
[man in suitcoat, necktie, checked shirt sitting outside canvas wall tent?, horseshoe. close-up of cabin in neg. #024. neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1991.011.571
Newtok; 1957; Lincoln family [two women and girl stand near opening to canvas wall tent; parkas; bucket; steel drum (container); likely September 1957]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.584
"Newtok" [likely 1957; summer scene; three boys pose with arms around each other in front of wood structures, canvas wall tent, boots, nets at far right]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1989.016.1882.14
(Bristol Bay fishing) [three men, possibly cannery workers or fishermen from Libby, McNeill, & Libby cannery, posed next to small canvas tent, with can of Pearl Oil]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2007.005.5.076
[stereo view of three people in front of canvas tent; two dogs in foreground; grass bundles on ground; possibly fabric hanging at right; wooden box; metal pan
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1991.011.541
"Newtok - summer fish camp Nelson Island, June, 1957" [view overlooking structures, canvas wall tents; bay and mountains in background; snow, pond, drying racks, boats]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2015.008.751
334.4. Janney’s Roadhouse, on Nizina River, Alaska. 8.25.16 [log cabin or walled tent,
showing interior with fireplace and bed frames, canvas almost completely torn off roof. Proof
print]
Keywords: camp, cabin
Collection: B2015.008
b2011.014.223
Woman with mosquito net leaning on 1920s Ford automobile, canvas wall tents in background, and water ditch or railroad grade (?) in distant background. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B1970.019.106
(From verso: "Palmer 1935") [scene of people walking on gravel road, man leading horses; automobiles, trucks; canvas wall tents; fenced in field or garden at right; men, women; likely from a copy neg]
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1998.014.1.1187
(O43 Palmer 1935; 2 negs & 2 prints) [copy neg; rooftop in foreground; tents, canvas wall; fields, fences, structures; Pioneer Peak, possibly termination dust in background)
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.042a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [elder smoking a pipe sitting next to child in front of canvas wall tent; smoke, pans; trees; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1407
(S16 Alaska fishing "a la Gee eye" ADC) men eat near campfire; canvas top vehicle, cooking pots, skillets, wood crate; possibly tent or sleepingbag in stuff sack in foreground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.031a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [family, women, man, children, kuspuks, parka, kuspuks, canvas wall tents, clothesline, washtub, washboard, buckets; likely on beach; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.042b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [versa of slide: elder smoking a pipe sitting next to child in front of canvas wall tent; smoke, pans; trees; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1995.025.050
[from verso] part of Terminal yard Anchorage 1916; Anchorage yards & townsite [view of wood structure and canvas tents; trees; men in cleared land in foreground appear to be playing baseball; bridge across Ship Creek at center.
Collection: B1995.025
B2018.021.689
Alaskan photography by Everett J. Wilde, Tetlin [Alaska Native family eating meal inside canvas tent, woman with chin tattooing sitting next to cups, plates, cans, and food on board, people sitting on mattress in back]
Collection: B2018.021
B2018.023.031b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: family, women, man, children, kuspuks, parka, kuspuks, canvas wall tents, clothesline, washtub, washboard, buckets; likely on beach; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.597
"E30 Nome, An Eskimo garage (sleds on racks)" [dog sled, canoes, poles, seal float(?), supported over snowy ground, fishing net, three sled dogs curled on ground, bucket, canvas wall tent and other structure in background, man standing to left of tent, person running along shore in center right of image]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
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
B2019.003.031
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Fish camp [three girls at camp, one in center possibly cutting fish on board, large canvas tent at right, rack or lean-to at left] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, Education, U.S. Government, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Fish camp, Camp, Indigenous, Indigenous girls, Cutting fish, Tent, Canvas tent
Collection: B2019.003
B1991.011.584
"Newtok" [likely 1957; summer scene; three boys pose with arms around each other in front of wood structures, canvas wall tent, boots, nets at far right; identified at 2019 village visit as Joseph Inakak, Moses Carl, and Joseph Asuluk]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.600
Newtok; camp on Nelson Island; June 1958 [At 2019 AFN identified as Nululluruk Camp (see .541); bird's-eye view of summer fish camp with canvas wall tents, fish drying on racks, pond; shoreline; boat; mountains; snow]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.572
Newtok [three women pose in front of metal and wood structure; two at left are identified on slide as Tommy (last name) and Lincoln (last name); possible canvas wall tent in distance; identified in 2019 as Marie Fairbanks, Mary George, and Julia Charles]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.1225
"O58 An Eskimo kayak and dog sled." (1958 postcard & print; photo by Frank Morgan) [kayak leaning on slde; sled dogs lay nearby on beach; boats in background; canvas wall tents above beach, stove pipes.; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.045a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [woman, elder sitting next to cooking fire, kettle, pot, skillet; holding bag in right hand; drying rack, canvas tents, woman, children in background; 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
B2018.023.049a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [summer scene; woman wearing dress, apron, and scarf with dog roped to pole likely for pulling objects; canvas wall tents and dogs in background; cook pot; pan; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2019.003.053
“Source of supply for the Anchorage Light and Power at Eklutna” Upper Lake Camp [three men near log building, large canvas tents in background, man at right possibly stacking small pieces of wood next to large log on rollers] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Anchorage Light and Power, Light and Power, Power, Supply, Source, Men, Log building, Building, Canvas tents, Canvas tent, Tent, Tents, Log rounds, Rounds, Wood, Firewood, Stacking wood, Wood pile, Winter, Log, Rollers, Upper Lake Camp, Upper Lake, Camp
Collection: B2019.003
B2018.023.045b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: woman, elder sitting next to cooking fire, kettle, pot, skillet; holding bag in right hand; drying rack, canvas tents, woman, children in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.049b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: summer scene; woman wearing dress, apron, and scarf with dog roped to pole likely for pulling objects; canvas wall tents and dogs in background; cook pot; pan; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1991.011.541
"Newtok - summer fish camp Nelson Island, June, 1957" [view overlooking structures, canvas wall tents; bay and mountains in background; snow, pond, drying racks, boats; identified in 2019 as Nulullugaq fish camp near Tununak; identified at 2019 AFN as Nululluruk camp]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.570
Newtok; Southwestern Alaska, teen(?) age girls; woman at left identified as Mrs. A. Tommy; woman at right identified as Lincoln [five grils stand in front of canvas wall tent; parkas; coat; September 1957; two identified in 2019 as Marie Fairbanks and Mary George; (see .572)]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.542
Newtok; Fish camp, Nelson Island; 1962. (June); duplicate [bird's eye view of canvas wall tents, fish drying on racks near shoreline; mountains; snow; pond; identified in 2019 as Nulullugaq fish camp near Tununak; also identified at 2019 AFN as Nululluruk camp; see .541]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.1686
T53 Artic [sic, Arctic] beach at Kotzebue, Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan (1948 postcard & print) [shore scene, upturned boat, steel barrels, man at left, boats in water, boy in parka, woman walking on pathway, structures, log cabin, canvas wall tent, wagon, cart, windmill]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.066a
[three men pose alongside a stream: one is leaning back and wears towel across his chest; a second holds first man’s hand and holds a pickaxe over his shoulder; a third holds a knife in front of first man’s chin and appears to be rubbing first man’s face. Mountains and possible canvas tent in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.066b
[verso of slide: three men pose alongside a stream: one is leaning back and wears towel across his chest; a second holds first man’s hand and holds a pickaxe over his shoulder; a third holds a knife in front of first man’s chin and appears to be rubbing first man’s face. Mountains and possible canvas tent in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1688
T54 Artic [sic, Arctic] beach at Kotebue, Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan (print) [beach scene, dogs curled near wood posts, Hill Bros Coffee cans, bundle of nets and buoys, boat, structures, canvas wall tents, stove pipes, people in parkas at left midground, steel barrels, drying racks possibly holding fish; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1991.030.63
Hunting camp of Copper River, Ahtena [sic: Ahtna] Native Alaskans. From front of image: "Upper Copper River Indians, summer camp; Mendenhall, USGS 1898." From verso: Mendenhall, W. C. #27; Hunting camp of Copper River INdians, Delta River. Gulkana District, Copper River regions, 1898" [men, women, children, dogs, canvas tents; river and mountains in background]
Collection: B1991.030 Castner Collection
