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B1995.014.76.4
[man wearing fur parka with geometric decoration, fur hat, and mukluks sitting on wing of airplane]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.929
[man seated on tree stump next to cabin in winter, holding hatchet, wearing canvas
parka with fur trim and fur hat with ear flaps]
Keywords: cabin, winter, prospector, hachet, fur hat
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2056.5
Hewitt's 5 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, informal gathering) [soldiers in furs coats and hats, one carrying snowshoes, buildings in background, Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.18
Hewitt's 18 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army in parkas) [men in fur coats and hats standing on Anchorage street, Hotel Lane in background, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.9
Hewitt's 9 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army) [soldiers in furs coats and hats talking to man in civilian clothing, Linder Rooms in background, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.16
Hewitt's 16 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army unit at attention) [men in fur coats and hats standing on Anchorage street, Hotel Lane in background, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.22
Hewitt's 22 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, men in parkas) [soldiers in fur coats and hats standing next to gun, spectators and federal building in background, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.66
D-85 [man wearing fur hat, fur parka with geometric decoration, and tall lace-up boots standing outdoors in winter near buildings]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2046.7
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska (Early Alaska Pilots, McGee and Star Airways) [man in fur hat and fur parka standing in front of airplane in winter]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.25
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [man wearing fur hat, fur trimmed parka, and sunglasses driving automobile with snowshoes tied to fenders, rifle mounted near door, and furs dangling from windscreen, buildings in background]
Keywords: businesses, hunting
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.004.229
Eskimo blanket toss, Fur Rondy, 1983, Reggie Joule? [man wearing parka, mukluks, and fur hat, with ribbons on his chest, preparing to be tossed; print date Feb 83]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B2016.004
B1989.016.2141.5
D-5 [person in sunglasses and fur parka, hat, and mukluks standing next to wood coffin elevated off snow, with Christian cross]
Keywords: funerary practices
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.53.4
Mail plane in at Marshall [pilot exiting airplane, wearing fur hat and parka with geometric design on upper arm, smoking cigarette]
Keywords: aviation, postal services
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2046.6
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska (Early Alaska Pilots, McGee and Star Airways) [man in fur hat, caribou fur parka and Athabascan beaded mittens standing in front of airplane in winter]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1498
(Elliott and Folkenstein) [two men standing near Star Airways airplane, one in tall boots holding aviator sunglasses, the other in fur parka and fur hat, with metal can and possibly small heaters in snow at their feet]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2243.10
(Star Air Service, pilots/inspectors, Hugh Brewster, CAA; Burris Smith, mechanic; M.J. Valley, pilot) [names not individually associated with negs. Portrait of man in fur hat, fur mittens, and light-colored fur parka with dark hood roots and geometric decoration]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.450a
Kasigluk 1957, Dipnetting for whitefish. Peter Isaac Sr. foreground right [men, women in skiffs, outboard motors, parka, gloves, fur hat]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.1447
S34 "Reasignment most any year now!!" (1946 postcard) [copy neg, same as .1104 "sourdough" man in parka carrying snowshoes, rifle, fur hat]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.007.170
[two Alaska Native women posed outdoors, one wearing baby belt and knitted hat, one wearing cloth parka with fur ruff]
Collection: B2015.007
B1995.010.4894
[woman wearing eyeglasses, green corduroy fur-trimmed parka and purple fedora hat, carrying baby in parka, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1104
O1 "Sourdough" {Old Timer (Sourdough) 1946 postcard} [man posed wearing parka, fur trimmed hood, hat moccasins, carrying rifle, snowshoes
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2243.1
(Star Air Service, pilots/inspectors, Hugh Brewster, CAA; Burris Smith, mechanic; M.J. Valley, pilot) [names not individually associated with negs. Portrait of man in light-colored fur parka with dark hood roots and fur hat]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1870.5a
(Group of Eskimo children) [five children in fur-trimmed parkas, one with Western-style brimmed hat, standing outdoors in winter, windmills? in background. color neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.29
E-46 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [young man in fur hat, kuspuk, skin gloves and mukluks, standing outdoors]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.027.37
#5-78. Musher after thawing out, Iditarod 1978, Nome, Alaska [portrait of Alaska Native man wearing fur-lined hat with earflaps and red shirt]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.027
B2015.019.58
Misha & Tony [Alaska Native man and young boy sitting on snowmachine, man wearing sunglasses and fur-lined hat with earflaps; print date May 79]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.019
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
B1998.014.1.446
C1 Ice Carnival - Miss Alaska on ice throne "Fairbanks, March 1937" [woman wearing full cape and crown sitting in chair; child at far left wearing fur parka, pants, mukluks, holding billow; man in chair wearing fur coat, hat, muklus, mittens; woman at far right wearing parka, hat, ice steps]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1476.5
Sept. 1914 [Alaska Native man in fur parka smoking pipe and holding reins to reindeer, with Caucasian man in Western clothing and hat. black-and-white transparency. copy]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2243.5
(Star Air Service, pilots/inspectors, Hugh Brewster, CAA; Burris Smith, mechanic; M.J. Valley, pilot) [names not individually associated with negs. Portrait of man in mukluks, fur hat, and light-colored fur parka with dark hood roots and geometric decoration]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1489
S59 Visitor at Fort Richardson (Joe E. Brown) [man poses in front of structure wearing fur parka, hat, mittens; likely early 1940s USO tour; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.014.90
Frida [Alaska Native man and two women wearing fancy fur parkas with geometric decoration standing outside log cabin in winter, man with mustache wearing fur hat, parka with fur on the inside, and Athapascan-style mittens, metal wash basin on wall at left above wood pile. Paper with Kodak Velox Paper stamp.]
Collection: B2015.014
B1989.016.1870.5b
Eskimo kids. Hewitt's Drug (Group of Eskimo children) [five children in fur-trimmed parkas, one with Western-style brimmed hat, standing outdoors in winter, windmills? in background. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.007.099
[American Legion group gathered next to Alaska Railroad train, many men wearing stovepipe hats and fur coats, marching band musicians at head of group, Leonhard Seppala with dog team at rear]
Collection: B2013.007
B1989.016.1870.1a
(Eskimo man and seal, made from 35mm color slide) [man in hat with ear flaps, fur-trimmed parka and mukluks holding rope attached hook embedded in seal carcass, sled visible in foreground. color neg]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1870.1b
(Eskimo man and seal, made from 35mm color slide) [man in hat with ear flaps, fur-trimmed parka and mukluks holding rope attached hook embedded in seal carcass, sled visible in foreground. copy neg]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.S1867.B145
Arctic trip March-April 19598; Kotzebue, Point Hope, Kivalina (Men and women with furs, interiors, exteriors) [men inside a store examining bundles of twigs or roots stored in Lipton tea box. Man on left wears fur parka and hat; man on right wears light jacket and cap, appears to be a shopkeeper; items for sale in background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2151.1
Eskimo woman & mikanina, Nome / Eskimo woman & child, Alaska. Thomas Fotoshop, Anchorage [woman wearing printed parka and necklace with Christian cross breast-feeding child in fur hat. double caption. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.928
[two men standing outside log cabin in winter, one man holding rifle, one man
holding hatchet, rifle propped against wall, icicles hanging from eave. 2 copies]
.929 – [man seated on tree stump next to cabin in winter, holding hatchet, wearing canvas
parka with fur trim and fur hat with ear flaps]
Keywords: cabin, winter, hachet
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.928b
[two men standing outside log cabin in winter, one man holding rifle, one man
holding hatchet, rifle propped against wall, icicles hanging from eave. 2 copies]
.929 – [man seated on tree stump next to cabin in winter, holding hatchet, wearing canvas
parka with fur trim and fur hat with ear flaps]
Keywords: cabin, winter, prospector
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1130
O19 Johnny Allan [sic], winner of manny [sic] Alaskan Dog Derbys [sic]; 1946 postcard) (Johnny Allen, musher, poses at dog sled runners; fur hat; mukluks with geometric trim including swastikas, ice palace in background; Fairbanks; winter]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.447
C2 Guard of Honor for Carnival Queen's Ice throne [Faribanks, flags, military uniforms, rifle, fur parkas, snow stairs, women wearing sashes, Matanuska Maid, Dawson?, University?, Miss Alaska, Man in Native dress carrying spear, harpoon, hat, snowshoes]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley