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B1995.014.118.9
[sluice box, gold pan, and other equipment at small mining operation on creek]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.23.2
[musher and dog team on winter trail. original image blurred]
Keywords: animals, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.4.10
Marshall 1937. Al Morenzi's store and a house Bill Amowak bought from Sears and Roebuck in the early 1930s [village scene, with houses and stacks of firewood and barrels, Yukon River at right]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.Scn.8.008
Scn 5299 Ice fall Hubbard Glacier; glaciers [calving glacier, icebergs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1995.014.110.16
[two men, one working gold pan, Willow Creek mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.3562
May 1969 [woman butchering seal as child watches; boardwalk, snow; possibly Savoonga] slide #6494
Collection: B2017.024
B2022.005.151
[People in uniforms (possibly Civil Air Patrol or US Air Force) milling around; USAF vehicle at left, buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, People, Uniform, Air Force, USAF, U.S.A.F., Bus, Vehicle, Transportation, Buildings, Civil Air Patrol, CAP, C.A.P.
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1995.014.15.13
[musher and dog team stopped near bluff along shore of frozen water, possibly Yukon River, mountains in distance]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B2022.005.224
[Obscured image of person outside; building nearby]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Person, Individual, Outside, Building, Window, House, Structure
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.114
[Young couple in uniform (likely Civil Air Patrol of USAF) cuddling on bus]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Couple, Man, Young man, Woman, Young woman, Uniform, Clothing, Civil Air Patrol, CAP, C.A.P., Air Force, U.S., USAF, U.S.A.F., Bus, Transportation
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1995.014.14.6
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [musher and dog team pulling away from fish traps on ice with load of fish]
Keywords: transportation, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.3401
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play on boardwalk near doorway; structures; shovels; likely fuel tanks at left; Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.014.28.7
F-E Co. 1942 [men assembling machinery or mining plant, Fairbanks Exploration Co.]
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.3354
June 1971 [Savoonga spring breakup scene; men, women, children on boardwalks; snow; Riverside Caribou snowmachine SB3345; Chaparral cowling; structures, church, sled]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.5.Scn.6.6
15240 Mt McKinley from Trapper Lake 250mm Hassl Dx 22 September 1963
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1991.011.414
"Tanunak family, 1940s, Nelson Island" [possibly Peter and Cecelia Aluska family; woman wearing fur parka, three children, posing outside structure; possibly drying fish in left background]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.418
"Tanunak on the beach, Liza Fairbanks in pink; dup." [women and girls pose on rocky beach near herring, parkas, kuspuks, boat and water in left background; same children as .410]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2019.007.649
Togiak, 1991; photographer number 2-T21-6 [Grass harvesting; grass bundles hanging against structures; pickup truck in foreground]
Collection: B2019.007
B1991.011.410
"Tanunak children, 1957 Nelson Island" [girls wearing kuspuks and parkas pase on rocky beach near herring]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1995.010.4547
[waterfront with docks and small boat harbor, ferry dock at right, mountains in distance; print date Sep 68]
Collection: B1995.010
B2019.007.648
Togiak, 1991; photographer number 2-T21-5 [Grass harvesting; village scene with grass bundles hanging against structures; pickup truck in center]
Collection: B2019.007
B1990.014.5.Scn.8.011
Scn 5186; Iceberg, near Pberg, August 1966, Glaciers; 4 14 September 1966. [likely near Petersberg]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2019.003.030
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Made in manual training class [boys posed outdoors in winter with snowshoes and sled] [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, Indigenous, Indigenous boys, Indigenous young men, Young men, Handmade, Handmade equipment, Snowshoes, Sled, Dogsled, Winter transportation, Winter equipment, Students
Collection: B2019.003