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B2016.004.57.36
Radar, Bethel, August 1984, VOR/TACAN, 1862 [family sitting outside house in Bethel]
Collection: B2016.004
B2006.023.3533.jpg
Robert Ivan,Calista Corp. Bethel Region.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B2006.023.3557.jpg
Robert Ivan,Calista Corp. Bethel Region.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B2016.004.57.11
Radar, Bethel, August 1984, VOR/TACAN, 1862 [two men sitting outside Swanson’s store in Bethel]
Collection: B2016.004
B2006.023.2255.jpg
Robert Ivan, Calista Corp. Bethel Region.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B2006.023.2872.jpg
Robert Ivan, Calista Corp. Bethel Region.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B2006.023.4882.jpg
Robert Ivan, Calista Corp. Bethel Region.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1990.014.5.AKNative.12.1
24553 AK Native - Eskimos Eskimo buying Bethel
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.3927.jpg
Robert Ivan, Calista Corp., Bethel Region. With brother Owen.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B2006.023.3927
Robert Ivan, Calista Corp., Bethel Region. With brother Owen.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.004.12572
Trading stations in most villages are upgrading into more modern stores. Bethel. Photographer's number 12572 [people and automobiles outside Northern Commercial Co. and Post Office in Bethel]
Keywords: businesses, Ecomony
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2017.029.2010
Yukon Kuskokwim State Fair, Bethel [portrait of woman wearing Yup’ik headdress]
Collection: B2017.029
B1994.009.1356b
Bethel - 11/8/56 - T-1 AC&W Site in center. Town of Bethel on river in upper right. White Alice site at end of road, lower center. Picture taken after sun down.
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B2011.007.8.092
Etta’s inscription: “Our boats laid up for repairs between Kipnuk and Bethel.” [Alaska. 1930s.]
Collection: B2011.007 Mary Breu Etta Jones Collection
B2016.004.987
Native Alaskan, Bethel, AK [man sitting on bench; print date Sep 84]
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.011.150
Alaska ’47 – Bethel, Bering Sea sunset [scenic. Removed from broken mount]
Collection: B2017.011
B2017.024.1212
Jul70P8 #15377 Bethel "Eskimo kids, Bethel, Alaska" [children walk along path near docks; pilings; boats; fishing nets; floats; airplane in water at upper right; structures; Kuskokwim River]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.029.2007
Native dancing enjoyed by all, Bethel [spectators watching dances in gymnasium; print date Feb 77]
Collection: B2017.029
B2016.004.984
Native Alaskans, Bethel, AK [elder holding toddler, sitting outside house; print date Sep 84]
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.011.148
Alaska ’48 – Bethel, typical Eskimo cannery worker [Yupik woman wearing headscarf seated outdoors]
Collection: B2017.011
B1997.003.072
[Louis Moncher, Furs & General Mdse, Bethel, building with ladders against wall and on roof; firewood, chicken wire enclosure in foreground]
Collection: B1997.003
B2014.016.295
[on verso:] 5087-9 [two Alaska Native men standing in doorway of Northern Consolidated Airlines office, Bethel, Jeep parked at left]
Collection: B2014.016
B2017.024.1187
May68P3 #01905 Bethel [children stand on porch of structure; fish strips drying on rooftop; dog sled in foreground; possibly a dipnet on roof]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1171
May68P3 #01886 Bethel [Yup'ikchild wearing red hooded parka and break-up boots holds slingshot; dirt road; snow; debris in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Yup'ik, Bethel, Mamterilleq
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1194
May68P3 #01913 Bethel [three children stand on pallet outside doorway of possible arctic entry to log cabin; clothes hanging on clothesline; snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B2018.021.375
New HUD housing, Bethel [three children standing in snow in front of building, water tank and crane at left; print date April 69]
Collection: B2018.021
B2016.004.962
Cleaning the shoreline, Bethel, AK [excavator removing junk automobiles piled along shore, man sitting on bluff at right; print date Sep 84]
Keywords: erosion, climate change, debris
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.024.1168
May68P3 #01883 Bethel [Inupiaq man drives Evinrude snowmachine down dirt road; people walking in background; structures; automobiles; quonsetts at right; clothesline]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Yup'ik, Bethel, Mamterilleq, Snowmachine, Snowmobile, Quonset
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1169
May68P3 #01884 Bethel [Yup'ik people hauling wood on cart, wheelbarrow; parkas; dirt road; snow; puddles; storage tank and two-wheeled cart at far right]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Yup'ik, Bethel, Mamterilleq
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.011.147
Alaska ’47 – Bethel, Nunivak Eskimo demonstrating harpoon technique to Ray Petersen [Yupik man wearing driving cap hurling harpoon, Ray Petersen standing at right]
Collection: B2017.011
B2017.011.149
Alaska ’48 – Bethel, Gene Snow’s father & native belles [barge pilot with four female passengers, Yupik women wearing Western clothing. Removed from broken mount]
Collection: B2017.011
B1985.027.970
[from verso:] Wien - destinations - Bethel; Mr. John John, wife, daughter Mrs. Mary Gregory, Mrs. Agnes Farnsworth, Census crew leader at Bethel. Children belong to Mary Gregory. [family sits on or next to bed with census worker; file folder on floor; phonograph record leaning against wood stove; metal basin atop stove; wall calendar from M.L. Davies Company showing April 1960]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B2017.024.1167
May68P3 #01882 Bethel [Yup'ik man, woman, and child wearing parkas walk along dirt road carrying paper shopping bags; snow; crane (equipment); structures; windsock; water at far right]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Yup'ik, Bethel, Mamterilleq
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1176
May68P3 #01891 Bethel [two Yup'ik children wearing parkas stand in doorway to possible arctic entry; curtain draped in open position; one child carries paper bag; snow; snow fence; structures]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Yup'ik, Bethel, Mamterilleq
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1185
May68P3 #01901 Bethel [three children stand on boardwalk in front of cabin; child in center is barefoot; child at right wears breakup boots and is holding middle finger up against face; same location as .1184]
Collection: B2017.024