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B2015.007.104
[group portrait of Alaska Native men posed outdoors next to large wooden building, all wearing Western style clothing, one man wearing eyeglasses, bowtie, and suit coat]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.15
[group portrait of Alaska Native men, women, and children posed outdoors, two men wearing Western style clothing, one woman wearing spotted reindeer fur parka. Original print damaged]
Collection: B2015.007
B1995.014.6.1
Sam Applebaum, trader at Russian Mission. Behind him was the new Russian Mission church, constructed from the remains of the old church, which was torn down in 1941
Keywords: clothing, economy
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.007.81
[Alaska Native women posed next to log cabin. Original image blurry. Same as .65]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.177
[six Alaska Native boys posed outdoors next to wooded-sided building. In manuscript on verso: “[illegible] Anagrok [illegible] gave it to [illegible] picture are [illegible] boys, Unalakleet, Alaska, Nov. 28, 1[cropped]”]
Keywords: clothing, education
Collection: B2015.007
B1993.020.1160
(Anchorage Car Show){vintage cars}
Keywords: cars, car show, vintage cars
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1161
(Anchorage Car Show){vintage cars}
Keywords: cars, car show, vintage cars
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1162a
(Anchorage Car Show){vintage cars}
Keywords: cars, car show, vintage cars
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1162b
(Alaska Native made baskets)
Keywords: native arts, baskets
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1163
(Alaska Native made baskets)
Keywords: native arts, baskets
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1164
(Alaska Native made baskets)
Keywords: native arts, baskets
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1165
(Alaska Native made baskets)
Keywords: native arts, baskets
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B2014.019.449
329. Nome. McCutcheon’s Foto, Anchorage [man stacking snow blocks for wind break or snow structure]
Keywords: residences, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2014.019
B2014.019.450
331. Nome. McCutcheon, Anchorage [two Alaska Native women on beach, one wearing fur parka and headscarf and carrying baby, one wearing print parka with fur ruff]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.019
B1989.016.2041.2
[text of advertisement, "Da-Lite Beaded Screens for movies slides $995 30x40 on stand"]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.016.1856
Kiana, on the Kobuk River. Eskimo cache above the Arctic Circle [Alaska Native man and White man stand near log cache, fish drying rack at left, fireweed in foreground]
Keywords: food, fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2014.016
B2015.007.44
[group portrait of several Alaska Native men, women, and infants posed outside a large wooden building. Original image blurry]
Keywords: children
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.103
[Alaska Native man and woman seated outdoors between building and metal barrel, both wearing Western style clothing, man holding guitar, woman holding balalaika]
Keywords: musical instruments
Collection: B2015.007
B2014.019.464
Alaska Eskimo dance, Nome. c. Robinson Studio, Anchorage [two dancers wearing masks performing outdoors on snow, one holding dance fans, possibly Yupik]
Keywords: clothing, dancing
Collection: B2014.019
B2015.007.1
[Alaska Native woman wearing fur parka with geometric trim and mukluks posed outdoors with young child wearing parka, mukluks, and knitted cap]
Keywords: clothing, children, footwear
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.105
[group portrait of Alaska Native women and children posed next to log building, one woman wearing Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.57
[Alaska Native man and woman posed next to large wood building, woman wearing spotted reindeer fur parka with walrus tusk gussets over print dress, man wearing Western style clothing, including possibly military jacket, and mukluks]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B2015.007
B2013.074.769
[man showing an architectual model of the Performing Arts Center]
Keywords: architecture
Collection: B2013.074
B2015.007.93
[group portrait of Alaska Native family posed outdoors, man wearing suspenders, possibly river in background. Original print damaged]
Collection: B2015.007
B1995.014.2.20
Willow and people [bushes covered in hoar frost]
Keywords: winter
Collection: B1995.014
B1964.001.095
A Dawson dance hall [View of men and women dancing at dance hall in Dawson, Yukon Territory. From verso: "Florodora." Postcard (color). Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 4 3/8"]
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B2015.007.8
[large group of Alaska Native men and women posed next to white tent in sparsely wooded area, men all wearing Western style clothing, all but one woman wearing light colored cloth parkas]
Keywords: clothing, camps
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.2231
[photograph of textile with image of dog team on winter trail]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.007.172
[group portrait of several Alaska Native men, women, and infants posed outside a large wooden building. Original image blurry. Same as .44]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.012.205
1955 Fur Rendezvous [two Alaska Native women wearing fur parkas standing outdoors. b&w negative]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.012
B2015.007.77
[Alaska Native woman and two children posed seated on boardwalk outside wood-plank building, all wearing Western style clothing]
Keywords: families, residences
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.46
[two Alaska Native women wearing print parkas and Athapascan style beaded mittens posed next to wood-shingle and tarpaper building]
Keywords: residences, clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.80
[large group of men, women, and children on steps of church building, some wearing traditional clothing and some wearing Western style clothing. Cf. .76]
Keywords: religion
Collection: B2015.007
B2014.016.2
Bill Hammersley's cache & doghouse, Kulik, Alaska [log cache and earthen kennel]
Keywords: residences, food, animals
Collection: B2014.016
B1995.014.75.3
[Alaska Native woman standing in front of fish drying racks in unidentified fish camp]
Keywords: fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.012.20
Salmon cannery of Alaska Fishermens Packing Co., Nushagak, Alaska [building complex as seen from water line]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B2014.012
B2014.019.476
Native potlatch costume, Wrangell, Alaska. Schallerer’s Photo Shop, Ketchikan [Alaska Native man wearing robe and headdress standing indoors]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.019
B2015.022.123
c. Lomen Bos. Nome [portait of smiling Alaska Native girl wearing fur parka with walrus-tusk gussets and mukluks. Identified on other versions of image as "Mukpie - Point Barrow Eskimo Girl. Youngest person aboard, and one of the survivors of the S.S. Karluk." Postcard]
Collection: B2015.022
B2015.012.204
1955 Fur Rendezvous [three Alaska Native women wearing fur parkas standing outdoors. b&w negative]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.012
B1995.010.4892
[group of girls gathered next to building, probably at start of race on Fourth of July, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.619
E40 On the Alaska Hiway "Alaska Highway Travelers; Native & Dogs; Frank Morgan photo" Man wearing leather jacket, cap, glasses, decorative belt poses on hill on gravel road, restraining two dogs carrying packs, chains, tree stumps in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley