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B1998.014.1.1066
(M13 Thawing frozen ground to be dredged for gold; Goldstream, Alaska; postcard 1946) [dredge in background, pipes in grid over ground, tailings]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1076
M16 Gold dredge near Nome, Alaska [copy neg; water, tailings, rocks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.4.7444
South Side 4th Ave Near C Street West. Oct 1970
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1998.014.1.1056
(M11 An Alaskan gold dredge) [gold dredge in pond; automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
b2011.012.1.115
Sept. '45. Japanese prison camp for Allied POWs on Hokkaido. Plane is a torpedo bomber from a CVE in North Pacific Force.
Collection: B2011.012
B1990.014.4.43033
The Cordova Ice Worm visits Anchorage Fur Rondy in Feb 1978 43033 FEB 18 1978
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2008.004.022
X’ind papa. Some of ships crew. Papa shown by check [Ships officers aboard the Thetis. The man under the check mark may be Richard Bjorkman. The man in the lower right corner is holding a sextant]
Collection: B2008.004 Bjorkman Collection
B2016.004.594
(Martha Krukoff St Paul Pribilof AK){woman in kitchen sitting at table with large bowl of meat}
Keywords: food, cooking, kitchen, blender
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.597
St. Paul, Pribilofs, AK [young boy preparing to fly kite; print date Aug 84]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.4.4117
[4th Ave, Looking East, Night time] 1950
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1991.011.577
"Newtok 1958" [interior scene; man, woman, three children pose; parkas; chest(?) in background; identified at 2019 AFN as Paul Carl holding Lawrence Carl; David Carl, Maria Langley; and Mary Julia Carl (right)]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1990.014.4.AnchorageSkyline1982
Aug 18 1982 [Anchorage Skyline]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2074.16
(Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954, #8a) [musher with bib #16 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, Reed's, 515 Club]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.54
E-63 (Mr. King) [portrait of man standing outdoors, wearing suit and tie; Robert King, Superintendent at Eklutna?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.55
E-59 (Mrs. Bjornson) [portrait of woman standing outdoors, wearing knitted cap with reindeer design, light jacket; Mrs. Bjornson owned a farm in Eklutna]
Keywords: agriculture, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.57
E-61 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [two men in fur parkas and Western-style pants and shoes standing outside, Mrs. Bjornson in middle, mountains in background. neg deteriorated]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.59
(Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [woman in fur-trimmed printed parka and mukluks, standing outdoors]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1869.3
Foto by Cameron (Anchorage Air Transport Travelair 4000 C193, circa 1927, with load of furs) [airplane marked A.A.T. C193 Anchorage No. 2, with loaded bundles and skis on snow at night. copy neg]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.186.1a
[Alaska Native man and boy on river bank with fish wheel. Positive transparency.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.1028
Jun70P5 #15405 Barrow [Exterior of structure with signs on window panes: "Whale Log: Alfred Leavitt, Don Nusungingya, Wyman Panigeo, Bert Okakok, Merle Solomon, Wyman Paniegeo, Winifrad A Ahvakana, Whit Lam Adams, Thomas Panninggona, Allen Kaleak, Soe Sikvayugak, Harold Itta, Joe Panigeo, Simeon Patkotak, David Brower, Alfred Leavitt; flag designs posted next to some names; snow on ground; corrugated roof]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Whaling, Whale Log
Collection: B2017.024
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
B1989.016.2210.31
E-48 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [two women in fur parkas and mukluks, holding skin drum, standing outdoors]
Keywords: clothing, footwear, musical instruments
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.016.1901
Kotzebue, arriving in plane formerly owned by Gene Autry – Native children meet all planes mostly to ride on tractor-drawn sled which is only airport transportation. Note: it is wiser to walk the ½ mile over path thru tundra to town [group of children and adults gathered near small airplane, tail number NC59233, parked on airstrip, buildings in background; at AFN 2014, plane identified as belonging to Bob Baker’s Baker Airlines]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2014.016
B1989.016.2210.58
(Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [woman in fur-trimmed printed parka and mukluks, standing outdoors]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.3
E-22 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [woman in fur parka and feather headdress dancing outdoors, two men in feather headdresses with box drum at right, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.016.1899
Kotzebue, visiting Little Diomed Eskimo showing ivory carving, 18 months service in World War II [Alaska Native man in military uniform sitting under umiak and using chin drill to carve ivory, open box of tools at his feet]
Keywords: clothing, military, carving, boats, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2014.016
B1989.016.2210.24
E-41 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.49
D-67 [group portrait of four women and three children in fur parkas standing on tundra, with snow patches on grass, two men visible in background; same group as in .2141.48]
Keywords: villages, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.39
E-58 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [two men in fur parkas and Western-style pants and shoes outside, mountains in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.45
E-67 (Queen Ruthie Johnson) [woman in evening dress, cape, and tiara, holding wand, Eklutna? 1937?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.48
E-71 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [group portrait of ten men and women in parkas standing outside, mountains in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.25
E-42 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, female dancers holding sticks, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.27
E-44 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, female dancers holding sticks, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.28
E-45 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [two men in fur parkas, one wearing fur mukluks and skin gloves, the other Western-style pants and shoes, standing outdoors]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2126
37. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Eskimo Village) [group of barabaras along coastline, with boat frames on racks at left]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.35
E-52 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [woman in fur-trimmed parka and mukluks, standing outdoors]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.47
E-69 (Queen Ruthie Johnson) [woman in evening dress, cape, and tiara, holding wand, Eklutna? 1937?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.30
E-47 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [young man in fur parka and mukluks, holding skin gloves, standing outdoors]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.075.6
Port Graham, 1966 [man standing outside house with dog]
Keywords: residences, animals
Collection: B2013.075
B1991.011.535
Newtok village on a winter day 12/65 [people, including women and children on snow; village structures in background; parkas; duplicate]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2017.024.1041
Oct70P5 #15722 Barrow "Ice fishing Eskimo woman" [Inupiaq woman wearing parka with fur trim, leather gloves sits fishing through ice, possibly harpoon at right]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Ice fishing, Harpoon
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2210.52
E-75 (Queen Ruthie Johnson and attendants) [woman in evening dress, cape, and tiara, holding wand, standing on building steps with five young women in printed dresses, Eklutna? 1937?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.2.10
Willow and people [machinery parked in a field next to a small corrugated metal shed, low hills in distance, agriculture? mining?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2141.21
D-21 [aerial view of village in winter, with pine trees, possiby along bank of frozen river]
Keywords: villages
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.32
E-49 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [woman in fur parka, kuspuk, and mukluks, standing outdoors]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.53
E-57 (Mrs. King) [portrait of woman standing outdoors, wearing headscarf, leather gloves, boots]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.62
(Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [two women in parkas, one fur, one printed with fur trim, standing outside, Mrs. Bjornson? in middle, mountains in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2002.018.24
South Seas Nite Club, owner Fred Bearden - downstairs from Berts Drug Store, corner 4th & F. [circa 1946] 5 x 7 negative
Collection: B2002.018 FIC