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B2017.023.199
[two service men, woman in kitchen, apron, bottle, china cabinet]
Collection: B2017.023
B2017.023.200
[Two service men, woman, apron, seated, eating; daybed in background]
Collection: B2017.023
B2014.030.5
Pauline & Wiona [two women wearing aprons posed in snow, Anchorage late 1940s?]
Collection: B2014.030
B1995.014.24.1
Skinning muskrats, R. M. Belhoff, Anisum[?] [man wearing apron seated on logs, river in background]
Keywords: hunting, food, clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.24.2
Skinning muskrats, R. M. Belhoff, Anisum[?] [man wearing apron seated on logs, possibly working skins, river in background]
Keywords: hunting, clothing, food
Collection: B1995.014
B2019.003.094
Cutting fish [several young women, some wearing headscarves and aprons, standing around tables on beach at fish camp, drying rack in background]
Collection: B2019.003
B2019.003.095
Fish camp [several young women wearing headscarves and aprons standing around tables on beach at fish camp, drying rack in background]
Collection: B2019.003
b2015.027.134
[group portrait of workers standing next to building, white man wearing cook’s hat probably compiler, one young Aleut man wearing apron]
Collection: B2015.027
B2022.005.33
[Indigenous Alaskan woman in apron standing outside and holding tin of stove polish with polishing rag. Stove polish Enameline was popular in the late 1800s. Midwinter.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Apron, Outside, Winter, Snow, Polish, Stove polish, Enameline, Rag
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2053.23
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [boy and girl in blackface, boy wearing tuxedo and bowler, girl wearing headscarf and apron and holding feather duster, buildings in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1972.032.168
Dinner party at Swartz: Geo Birch, Mr Lloyd, Eric Danielson, Dr Swartz" [four men waring aprons stand on covered porch; hand mixer, towels]
Collection: B1972.032 Dorothy Surgenor
B1989.016.2227.4
(Eklutna Industrial School, No. 3L, #1, General view of dining room) [interior of dining area, tables set, group of girls dressed in aprons and hats standing at right, back]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.224.005
70-2 Sitka Inn [Man wearing apron on front porch of boarding house; signs: Mrs. Salo's Boarding houise, rooms: Room, Board, Meals; August 1941; Sitka]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.People.14.626
10441; Mom and Jerry in Juneau at Cliff Apts [1940s?]; family [woman wearing apron and boy wearing tie and sweater pose on porch; view of dock, Gastineau Channel, and mountains in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.2018.1.1.004
1-2; Lee & Bashe [woman and child on sofa; woman is holding child's left hand in her hand and holding implement in her right hand; apron; magazine and ashtray on table in foreground; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.1.004
1-2; Lee & Bashe [woman and child on sofa; woman is holding child's left hand in her hand and holding implement in her right hand; apron; magazine and ashtray on table in foreground; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.695
F20 Processing halibut in southeastern Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan, "& print" [men handle fish in totes, rinse fish in vat, aprons, gloves, boots, salmon on box in foreground, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1971.014.024
[from verso] Native girl's own idea of posing [woman wearing floral dress and apron stands with hand on hip; watering can and possibly a rain barrel at left; fence, structure in background; 1923 scrapbook or album; copy print]
Collection: B1971.014 CIHS Grube Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.69.005
26-2; fish dock scene [two men pose: one wearing cap and full length apron displaying salmon from a pole while a second stands behind him with arms out and smoking a pipe; structure in background; likely Ketchikan 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.69.005
26-2; fish dock scene [two men pose: one wearing cap and full length apron displaying salmon from a pole while a second stands behind him with arms out and smoking a pipe; structure in background; likely Ketchikan 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2018.023.049a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [summer scene; woman wearing dress, apron, and scarf with dog roped to pole likely for pulling objects; canvas wall tents and dogs in background; cook pot; pan; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.697
F21 Ketchikan, Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan [Men at wharf, dumping fish into hopper, hand cart, slickers, rain gear, aprons, shovel, man observing from building window possibly tallying fish, water in background, possibly a cat under hopper, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.049b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: summer scene; woman wearing dress, apron, and scarf with dog roped to pole likely for pulling objects; canvas wall tents and dogs in background; cook pot; pan; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1997.003.084
[two men on boat: one in cook's apron and cap holding salmon; man in street clothes, cap, squatting atop tarp holding rope with fish; sign: "inspected U.S. No. 1, Alaska grade potatoes, L.B. Garnett Co, Seattle, Wash," shore in background; flag at upper right]
Collection: B1997.003
B2013.007.007
This picture taken Sept. 30, 1911. My partner by my side and a mud puddle two feet deep in front. Jap Restaurant next to us. M.V.T. [Street scene showing log building under construction, wooden two-story building with sign “Shoes Repaired While You Wait,” walled tent with sign “Brunell and Tyler Painters Paper Hangers and Sign Writers,” and walled tent with sign “Restaurant, Bakery and Coffee House.” Two men outside Brunell & Tyler’s, and man and woman in aprons outside bakery, with two men in street clothes and a dog]
Collection: B2013.007