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B1993.020.1412
Queen, furs, ANC Rondy, Feb. ’81 [Fur Rendezvous balloons]
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.2491
(Anchorage Fur Rondy hot air balloon Martin Victor Furs)
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1995.010.3375
[portrait of young Alaska Native girl holding Mac’s Foto balloon]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3399
[Alaska Native woman and children with balloons on boardwalk in front of houses, Kaltag]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3406
[Alaska Native children standing on boards, some holding balloons, Tanana? Cf. .3404]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3261
[Steve McCutcheon handing out balloons to large group of Alaska Native children, Kaltag?]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3381
[portrait of three young Alaska Native girls, one holding Mac’s Foto balloon]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3400
[Alaska Native woman and children with balloons posed next to cemetery on bluff above river]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3259
[Steve McCutcheon handing out balloons to Alaska Native children, boardwalk and buildings in background, Kaltag?]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3265
[Steve McCutcheon handing out balloons to group of Alaska Native children, sawhorse in background, Kaltag?]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3297
[Alaska Native boy and girl holding Mac’s Foto balloons, Paimiut. Same girl as in .3281]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.5597
[young girl with balloon on boardwalk, women and children playing near volleyball net in background, Kaltag]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.5599
[girl standing on boardwalk holding Mac’s Foto balloon, children in front of church in background, Kaltag]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3046
[five Alaska Native children posed on gravel beach, one blowing up Mac’s Foto balloon]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.5601
[young girl holding balloon standing on beach, Steve McCutcheon holding camera just visible at right, Kaltag?]
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.029.1647
[group of children posed on beach, some holding balloons, cemetery on bluff above left; print date Sep 76]
Collection: B2017.029
B1995.010.5595
[young boy with balloon standing on boardwalk, woman sitting at left, children playing near volleyball net at right, Kaltag]
Collection: B1995.010
B2016.004.33.73
Mike Bauwens and hot air balloons, 5-3-77, over Anchorage & Mat-Su Valley [slough on taiga]
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.024.3395
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; two children stand in doorway to structure; balloon; trash cans; objectsstored on roof; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.010.3272
[Alaska Native children holding balloons, one boy wearing cowboy shirt, adults sitting on boats in front of buildings in background, Kaltag?]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1488
S58 Japanese baloon [sic] bomb in Alaskan wilderness [Two service men handling fabric from balloon bomb in trees, spruce; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.3282
[Alaska Native children, some holding balloons, standing on riverbank at village, wood-plank ramp in center, corrugated metal buildings above, Tanana? Cf. .3211]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3303
[group portrait of man and group of Alaska Native children holding balloons, one girl wearing Naknek t-shirt, corrugated metal building at right]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3376
[portrait of three young Alaska Native children, two holding Mac’s Foto balloons, Northern Commercial Company store in background, Tanana. Cf. .3197]
Collection: B1995.010
B2016.004.203
Sven Johansson Ski Race, Fur Rondy, 1983 [hot air balloons rising behind field of skiers racing; print date Feb 83]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.204
Sven Johansson Ski Race, Fur Rendezvous, Anchorage, AK [hot air balloons rising behind field of skiers racing;print date Feb 83]
Collection: B2016.004
B1995.010.3258
[Steve McCutcheon handing out balloons to Alaska Native children, with Clarissa and Phyllis McCutcheon, large log building and cabins in background, Kaltag? Portion of image overexposed]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3212
St. James E. Church [toddler holding balloon and wearing “Don’t’ Spank” pants in foreground, Phyllis McCutcheon standing in front of St. James Episcopal Church in background]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3269
[Phyllis McCutcheon walking down road past houses and caches, three children with balloons standing at right, communications tower in right background, laundry on clothesline at left, Kaltag?]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3372
[group portrait of Alaska Native woman and children posed next to fuel wood pile, several children holding balloons, two dogs in front of Beaver post office at left. Cf. .3393]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3404
[Alaska Native children standing on riverbank at village, some holding balloons, one boy wearing military cap, wood-plank ramp in center, corrugated metal buildings above, Tanana? Cf. .3282]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.001.1
[Stamp on verso: Anchorage Times photograph, Feb. 16, 1981. Hot air balloons being filled at East High School during Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, with large group of spectators and Chugach Mountains in background]
Collection: B2015.001