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B2015.008.368
Turkey poults. Their first climb [chicks climbing ladder up to tree branches]
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.014.69.18
[man climbing steep rock face]
Keywords: military, hiking, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.71.12
[three hikers climbing ridge in clouds]
Keywords: military, mountaineering, hiking
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.33.18
[man climbing down ridgeline in mountain range]
Keywords: mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.628a
D.K. at 12,000 ft. [Dora wearing brimmed hat and climbing belt using pick to climb steep slope]
Keywords: mountaineer, mountain climbing, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.014.70.10
[soldier wearing backpack climbing steep ice cliff]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.70.9
[soldier wearing backpack climbing steep ice cliff]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.628b
154_4 D.K. at 12,000 ft. 845am 9th day Miss Dora Keen climbing Mt Blackburn Alaska Subject of her lecture Sat Evening April 18 at Brooklyn Institute [proof print has stamp of Dora Keen][Dora wearing brimmed hat and climbing belt using pick to climb steep slope]
Keywords: mountain climbing, mountaineer, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1577.3
[bear cub climbing over wire fence, Curry Hotel]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.508
Our maidenhair hedge, and rambler roses [exterior of house, with climbing roses]
Collection: B2015.008
B1983.091.S4176.105
Woman climbing out of window above Denali restaurant on ladder. 4th and B.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1995.010.5666
Kasilof, 1945 [George climbing rigging of Kasilof. has neg dated 5/27/46. Cf. .6043]
Collection: B1995.010
B2021.008.13
[three minks climbing chicken wire in cage at the Northern Lights Fur Farm in Anchorage]
Keywords: Mink, Fur Farm, Anchorage, Alaska
Collection: B2021.008 Myrtle Everett Bragaw
B1995.010.5664
Kasilof, 1945 [unidentified couple aboard Kasilof, man climbing rigging. has neg dated 5/27/46]
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.023.280
After a hard climb [Wellenstein wearing clod weather gear and skis, frost on scarf around face]
Collection: B2017.023
B1989.016.1833.2
Mendenhall Glacier. Hewitt's Photo 1 [three poeple climbing near foot of glacier. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2144.5
#6. Last climb to the summit of Chilkoot Pass. Larss & Duclos, Dawson (Old Klondike) [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1553.1
(Early Alaska Airplane Scenes) [pilots climbing into cockpit of Star Air Service biplane "North Star." Flight instruction?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1343
(PE10 Eskimo round up reindeer) [men, handling reindeer at corral; children climb on fence, parkas, kuspuks, snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1996.035.1.245
[men dressed in civilian clothing climbing hillside carrying crosses, possibly Adak natives moving cemetery? Adak, World War II]
Keywords: funerary customs, military
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B1998.014.1.1496
S66 Army rescue party climbing Mt. McKinley [three service men, ropes, parkas, at ice face, likely a glacier, Denali; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1503
S72 Alaskan soldiers getting mt. climbing experience. [one man rappels as two others look on from above; cliff, rope, mountains; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.517
D24 Fort Richardson, Alaska "Rescue team U.S. Army, 3 negs." [dog sled team, musher climbing hill, trees, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.011.104
Alaska ’48 – Wattamoose, “Queenie” climbing up from creek [woman holding fishing rod and creel walking up steep hill, Wattamuse Creek]
Collection: B2017.011
B1998.014.1.506
D20 Serving the United States Army Alaska "Different titles, servng the U.S. Army; 1 print, 3 negs." [dog sled team, musher climbing hill, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.117a
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [label] “1” [bird’s eye view of horses and riders climbing up dirt trail, likely in desert Southwest; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.117b
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [label] “1” [verso of slide: bird’s eye view of horses and riders climbing up dirt trail, likely in desert Southwest; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1979.002.5904
From label: Tunnel holing thru ceremonies - 12; Climbing over debris after final blast, ARR Cut off, Alaska 11/20/42 [Whittier Tunnel; men wearing helmets, one wearing garrison cap, walk through tunnel]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.767
Mount McKinley, highest mountain in North America, towers 20,300 feet. From its plateau of only 3,000 ft., Mt McKinley climbs 17,000 feet more, which is said to be a world's record. PS-2 "L11" [same as .755, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.1302.dk565
565 [two climbers crossing near large crevasse, man at left smoking pipe. Cf. .774]
[.775] – 566 [has print]
[.776] – 567 [has print]
[.777] – 568 [has print]
[.778] – 569 [has print]
[.779] – 594 [has print]
Keywords: climbing, climber, crevasse, mountaineering, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1302.dk565crop
565 [two climbers crossing near large crevasse, man at left smoking pipe. Cf. .774]
[.775] – 566 [has print]
[.776] – 567 [has print]
[.777] – 568 [has print]
[.778] – 569 [has print]
[.779] – 594 [has print]
Keywords: climbing, climber, crevasse, mountaineering, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.249
Mr. Wm. C. Edes, chairman Alaskan Eng. Com., [transferring?] from S. S. Mariposa to U. S. Explorer. P. S. Hunt J1891 [three men climbing rope ladder from small boat to larger boat, April 1914?]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.968
20.10. Riding for 7 hours through the Black Mt. Forest Reserve without a trail to the top
of Black Mt., Wyoming, 36 hours in saddle except for 4 rests for horses to graze & for us to
climb 1 hr. [Dora on horseback in wooded area, second horse at right. Proof print]
Keywords: horse
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1093
Granada, in the Alhambra. The garden on the slope leading up to the Torre de la Vela.
We climbed there only a little before sunset, and then through a lot of forbidding doors, came
out to this charming terrace, and the view to the west beyond [garden terrace]
.1094 – Granada, the Court of Myrtles. The first part of the Alhambra we saw together
[courtyard with pool]
Keywords: Granada, garden
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.636
164.12. D.K. riding down gulch on top packs on snowshoe sled [Dora sitting on pack on
steep slope, rope visible on snow. Photo number lightly erased on verso]
Keywords: climbing, crevasses, mountaineering, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.638
166.3. [two climbers standing in snow below steep slope and seracs, snowshoes stuck
in snow upslope of climbers. Caption illegible. Proof print]
Keywords: climbing, glacier, crevasses, mountaineering, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.680
227 9 227 10 [panorama with two images of birds eye view of glacier valley man seated on rocky slope at left][location possibly Harvard Glacier not noted in photograph]
Keywords: mountain climbing, mountaineer, mountains, glaciers
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.794.t26
T26 [three climbers on crevasses, all holding picks, man at right smoking pipe. With
stamp of Dora Keen. has neg. cf. .774]
Keywords: climbing, crevasse, glacier, ice axe, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.794.t26negcrop
T26 [three climbers on crevasses, all holding picks, man at right smoking pipe. With
stamp of Dora Keen. has neg. cf. .774]
Keywords: climbing, crevasse, glacier, ice axe, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B2013.005.6
[Thi]s box is the furring pen feed box, we have three in each pen then troughs etc and a feed house in one (as an experiment.) These boxes keep seagulls out and in fly time we darken the holes with canvas. I had a cap on in this picture but I look furry. I can go sit in [bull?] pen and mink will climb all over me clear on my head. I give lots of them a bite of one piece of meat or fish, holding it while they each taste. They don’t snap at all. [woman with feed pot next to small wooden pen]
Keywords: fur farming, Anchorage
Collection: B2013.005
B2015.008.627a
Good camp site from slides [arrow] three climbers wearing backpacks and holding picks reclining on snow in foreground cornice above]
Keywords: glaciers, mountaineer, Mt Blackburn, mountain climbing
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.627b
154_1 resting on 70 degree slope at 10400 feet 430_12_7am 9th day [proof print 3 copies]
Keywords: mountain climbing, mountaineer, Mt Blackburn, glaciers
Collection: B2015.008