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B2022.005.67
[Person in parka at distance standing on broken up ice floes]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Person, Parka, Outerwear, Clothing, Winter, Snow, Ice, Ice floes, Floes, Broken up, Break up, Distance, Landscape, Horizon
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1983.091.S3017.093
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [Walruses on ice floe, water]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2017.023.263
[scenic view, mountain, glacier, terminus, icebergs, ice floe, rocks, snow]
Collection: B2017.023
B2018.023.080a
“11” “Steamer in the Ice, Glacier Bay, Alaska” [steamship near ice berg and ice floes; hand colored; insignia in upper left]
Collection: B2018.023
B1965.018.135
Russian gunboat “Yacut,” Teller, Alaska, 1917. P. Puiga [amidst ice floes]
Collection: B1965.018 Fred Henton
B2005.013.346
[distant view of unidentified village as seen from water, ice floes in foreground. cf. .46]
Collection: B2005.013
B2018.023.080b
“11” [verso of slide] “Steamer in the Ice, Glacier Bay, Alaska” [steamship near ice berg and ice floes; hand colored; insignia in upper left]
Collection: B2018.023
B2017.024.2287
Kotzebue, June 1967 [child jumps between ice floes; shore ice, water, man in left foreground photographing scene]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Kotzebue, Camera, Ice, Climate change
Collection: B2017.024
B1970.019.708
[Man standing next to mud flats with ice floes.] 2.75 x 4.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1983.146.134
Ice Pack Ship Creek March 22, 1916. The S.L. Co. [ice floes in creek, with large wooden building and machinery in background] print
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1985.027.1453a
Originally in B4 F101. Wien Destinations. Kotz III. [Native woman in bathing suit on ice floe ice fishing.] 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1989.016.2197.16
Among the ice floes, Bering Sea. c. Lomen Bros. Nome #1004 [umiak under sail. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1432
45. Arctic transportation. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [man with dog pulling sled on ice floes. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1747.10
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [male drummer preparing for show, ice floes on painted backdrop in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1747.9
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [three women dancers in fur parkas posed for photograph, ice floes on painted backdrop]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.019.488
Palmer. Photo by E. Wolf, Juneau [actually two Alaska Native children wearing print parkas on gravel beach, ice floes in background
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.019
B2014.019.490
Palmer. Photo by E. Wolf, Juneau [actually two Alaska Native women wearing fur parkas posed outdoors, ice floes in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.019
B1989.016.1301
46. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska (Eskimo seal hunter) [man with spear and rifle standing next to seal on ice floe. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1747.1
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [three people on stage set with barabara, ice floes on painted backdrop, chairs piled in front of stage)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1747.2
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [male and female dancers and drummers on stage, ice floes on painted backdrop, chairs piled in front of stage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1747.3
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [male and female dancers and drummers on stage, ice floes on painted backdrop, chairs piled in front of stage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1747.4
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [three people on stage set with barabara, ice floes on painted backdrop, chairs piled in front of stage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1747.6
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [three people on stage set with barabara, ice floes on painted backdrop, chairs piled in front of stage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1747.7
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [male on stage with boat and two pokes, ice floes on stage backdrop, chairs piled in front of stage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.079a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [steamship traveling through ice floes; people on deck and in rigging; hand colored; debris is encased in the slide]
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.2088
45. Eskimo lancing a bowhead whale. c. Thomas. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [hunter in parka and mukluks thrusting harpoon into whale in water next to ice floe, 1930s?]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.079b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: steamship traveling through ice floes; people on deck and in rigging; hand colored; debris is encased in the slide]
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.1747.5
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [male and female dancers and drummers on stage, ice floes on painted backdrop, chairs piled in front of stage, drummers' shirts read "Nome, Alaska"]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1747.8
(Eskimo Dancers, Anchorage High School Auditorium, 1951) [male and female dancers and drummers on stage, ice floes on painted backdrop, chairs piled in front of stage, drummers' shirts read "Nome, Alaska"]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.027a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [caption from verso: "Walrus killed on ice floes off Siberian coast, Bering Sea by G. Madsen. June, 1909" hunting scene; harpoon; parkas; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.027b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: caption from verso: "Walrus killed on ice floes off Siberian coast, Bering Sea by G. Madsen. June, 1909" hunting scene; harpoon; parkas; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023