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B2022.005.130
[Indigenous Alaskan boy standing outside house midwinter; snow shovel nearby]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Boy, Child, Outside, Winter, Snow, House, Home, Building, Shovel, Snow shovel
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.288.004
88-4; Feb 1943; Super XX; snow scene [path shoveled through snow above Ketchikan; structure in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2015.008.315
Deep snow on roof of Wheeler’s shed, West Hartford, Vt. 1918 Jan. [distant view of man shoveling snow off rooftop]
Collection: B2015.008
B2022.005.129
[Indigenous Alaskan family standing outside home midwinter; snow shovel nearby; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Family, Man, Woman, Mother, Father, Children, Daughters, Son, Boy, Girl, Teenager, Teen, Outside, Winter, Snow, Shovel, Snow shovel, House, Home, Building, Buildings, Community, Parka, Fur, Clothing, Outerwear
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.288.003
88-4; Feb 1943; Super XX; snow scene [path shoveled through snow above Ketchikan; trail sign at left; structure at right]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1964.001.127
Digging out train C.R.& N.W.R.R. [numerous men with shovels digging out a train stuck in deep snow]
Keywords: trains, transportation, winter
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B1990.014.2018.1.289.003
88-5 Feb 1943; Super XX Snow scene [snow on spruce trees and roof of structure in mid-ground; possible shoveled walkway; mountains in distance; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.010.172
[distant view of wooden trestle bridge in winter, track signal in foreground, broom and shovel stuck in snow bank. Cf. .183, .210]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1995.010
B1991.011.1217
Point Hope winter, 1957 [man and woman wearing parkas stand in front of igloo; dog sits to right; snow; shovel; stove pipe]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2017.024.3558
"Skinny seal, Savoonga Village, St Lawrence Island" [woman butchering seal atop snow; structure, shovels; likely late 1960s] slide #6483
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2141.55
(D-73?) [winter street scene, with two men on tractor clearing snow, one man shoveling driveway, one man on ladder clearing building roof, signs for businesses Seattle Rooming House and Pioneer Stables, Fairbanks? circa 1900-1910?]
Keywords: snow removal, communications, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2007.005.5.169
From verso "November, 1931. Fishing smelt!" [neg # B2007.005.7.91; group of people on ice and snow, fishing; woven grass baskets; poles are likely part of fish traps; shovel at left center]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1989.016.2199.1
Lomen Bros. Nome #983 [man wearing fur-trimmed coat, fur hat, and tall lace-up boots standing in entry to house, path shoveled out of deep snow. copy neg, original caption cropped from image]
Keywords: houses, residences, winter
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.603
"E34 Kotzebue. An Eskimo hunter's home, Sept 4, 1952; Drying wolf & muskrat skins; postcard." [snow, cabins, child at right near metal tub, person in parka standing in doorway of arctic entry, oil drums, shovel, dog sled, structures in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley