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B1990.014.5.P.1.9
(Coastal for Standard [drill site with mobile home trailer, structures, fuel tanks, snow, chimney in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P1
B1998.014.1.1114
O9 An Alaskan Island fox farm (1946 postcard) structures, house, chimney, water, rocks, beach in foreground, pier at left, snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1962.001A.439
Native boys at Tonsina playing steamboat [Ahtna boy playing with boat; Ahtena Indians] [Structures with chimneys behind trees at right. Lower Ahtna region]
Keywords: Ahtna, Lower Ahtna, Ahtena, Indigenous, Boy, Child, Play, Playing, Water, Creek, Boat, Tonsina, Bridge, Tents, Building, Smokestack, Chimney
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1998.014.1.569
E11 Blanket Tossing, an Eskimo game [blanket toss, girl high in air, people standing looking up, structure in background with shingles, corrogated roof, chimney, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2014.019.25
Palmer office [yellow brick building with stone chimney at left, Quonset hut with sign for Sherrod Gardens at right, low building in background, mountains in distance, winter] [Likely Max Sherrod]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Palmer, Office, Building, Structure, Business, Businesses, Brick, Chimney, Stone chimney, Quonset hut, Quonset, Sign, Sherrod Gardens, Max Sherrod, Mountain, Ranger, Winter, Snow
Collection: B2014.019
B1989.016.666
44. Colonists construction hdqr., Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [log building with chimney and flagpole near walled tents. sign on building for U.S. Marshal. Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.91.002
34-1; Dec. 1939; Plus X - 40-24; Dev in DK 20-14 min @ 70°F; Trees & clouds [rooftop and chimney at center bottom; likely near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.91.002
34-1; Dec. 1939; Plus X - 40-24; Dev in DK 20-14 min @ 70°F; Trees & clouds [rooftop and chimney at center bottom; likely near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1981.020.144
Sitka, Alaska No. A113, The Photo Shop Studio [United States Post Office and Court House building; poured-concrete structure with geometric ornamentation; flag atop roof; seawall and utility lines in foreground; structure with brick chimney in background]
Collection: B1981.020 Hotchkiss
B1998.014.1.1793
T103 Government hospital at Kotzebue, Alaska [wood structure with cross on rooftop, flagpole with American flag; chairs to right of Arctic entry and stairs; chimneys, stovepipe; structures to right of hospital including possibly an enclosed porch, steel drums (containers)]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2117
W17 Winter in Alaska; photo by Vern Brickley "(log house)" [copy neg; log cabin with stone chimney, snow, utility lines and additional structures in right background; Chugach Mountains in distance: located at Third and Eagle Street in Anchorage]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1336
PE2 A favorite and spectacular sport in Eskimoland is "Blanket Tossing." The contestant is "tossed" skyward by the crew holding the blanket. Much emphasis is placed on the contestant's form. [same as.569, woman is high in the air during blanket toss; people holding blanket, in foreground; structure with shingles, corrougated metal roof, chimney in background.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1975.127.006
Court House (Wrangel) [sic: Wrangell], HNT.13[?].94 [two-story plank-sided structure with "Court Room" sign at door; possibly upturned sofa on porch, bell on upstairs porch, rain barrel at right, external stairway at left; boy wearing sailor suit at far right next to plank walkway, killer whale totem at left foreground; firewood at left background, brick chimneys, log structure in right background is the Russian block house; fence]
Collection: B1975.127 Wrangell