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B1962.x.015 CIHS US Army Engineer District.14
Alaska Highway Canada Customs
Collection: B1962.x_022 CIHS Morgan / B1962_x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District CIHS U_S_ Army Engineer District
B1998.014.1.342
(B71 Tok Junction, U.S. Customs, Alaska Highway) [automobile parked in front of building; U.S. Customs, Highway Patrol, U.S. Immigration, U.S. Marshal; gravel road]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1628.4
(Hewitt's Drug Store, Interior) [with customers at lunch counter at left, displays at right]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.344
B71 Tok Junction, U.S. Customs, Alaska Highway [automobile parked in front of building; U.S. Customs, Highway Patrol, U.S. Immigration, U.S. Marshal; gravel road; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1962.3
(Hewitt's Drug Store, interior, 1953) [customers shopping inside store, with counters and displays]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.4
(Hewitt's Drug Store, interior, 1953) [customers shopping inside store, with counters and displays]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.5
(Hewitt's Drug Store, interior, 1953) [customers shopping inside store, with counters and displays]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.6
(Hewitt's Drug Store, interior, 1953) [customers shopping inside store, with counters and displays]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.7
(Hewitt's Drug Store, interior, 1953) [customers shopping inside store, with counters and displays]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1962.8
(Hewitt's Drug Store, interior, 1953) [customers shopping inside store, with counters and displays]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.593
40. Indian burial ceremony. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. Bragaw. [Dena'ina funeral customs]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.343
(B71 Tok Junction; U.S. Customs, Alaska Highway) [log structure, gravel road, automobile, gate]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1970.028.045
Grandstand in Eskimo Lands. Everybody sing to the Blanket tossers. 1921 Often a successful hunt. Eskimos-Social Life & Customs
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1980.105.03
(G30-2487-2ND)(7-9-41) The old Eskimo custom [two Alaska Native women in fur parkas rubbing noses]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1980.105 2nd Mapping Squadron Photographs
B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus.29.64
(Anchorage_Business_Dads Grocery)(At Dads Grocery showing customer at meat counter)(Lou Marek behind case)(4th Ave at N st NE corner)
Keywords: grocery, food, commerce, shopping
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus
B2017.029.655
Satisfied customer [man sitting in lawn chair outdoors, eating fried fish from paper plate with plastic fork; print date Aug 75]
Collection: B2017.029
B1983.091.S4193.006
Benny Benson, designer of Alaska flag (2/22/64). Interior, man at table, autographing. [Airline counter and customer in backgornd; PNA aircraft model at left background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2144.15
#44, 2148. Tagish Post Custom House. Copyright 1898. Larss & Duclos Photos., Dawson (Old Klondike) [boats and people along lakeshore. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.2626
[lupine and dandelions gone to seed in cemetery, with wooden Russian Orthodox crosses, Dena’ina spirit house, and other graves, mountains in background, Anchorage. Cf. .2630]
Keywords: funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.2630
[lupine, grave markers, and crosses, mountains in distance, Anchorage cemetery. Cf. .2626]
Keywords: funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3244
[crosses and graves in cemetery above Yukon River]
Keywords: funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.13.5
[Russian Orthodox church and graveyard in winter, frozen water in background, Russian Mission? cf. 54.4-.54.5]
Keywords: funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B2012.006.203
[cemetery with white cross grave markers, possibly airstrip in background; print date Jul 61]
Keywords: funerary customs
Collection: B2012.006
b2012.006.735
[village cemetery in winter; no date]
Keywords: funerary customs
Collection: B2012.006
b2012.006.772
[graveyard on tundra, buildings at left; print date Jul 61]
Keywords: funerary customs
Collection: B2012.006
B1983.091.S1450.069
NCL Trip: Mr McIntyre with customers at Eek store. He lived 32 years at Eek 8/12/53 [two women and one man stand near counter inside store talking with shopkeeper; teacup on counter; woman on left may be Fina Ivanoff (see .070)]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.1334
PE1 Eskimos in the Far north with centuries-old customs, depend more on modern aviation than any other Americans. (Eskimos by plane) [children, adults, people gather near airplane, likely Stinson SR-5A Special, NC-13 (obstructed number), parkas, kuspuks, mukluks, water, possibly ice in background; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.342
[Dena’ina spirit houses in cemetery, Eklutna]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.361
[Dena’ina spirit houses in cemetery, buildings in distance, Anchorage]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.6
293-3. Cemetery wonderland [gravestones and spirit house in hoar frost, Anchorage]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.102.15
[burial cairn on rise, river in background, Mountain Village, 1936]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.106.10
[wooden Russian Orthodox cross on bluff overlooking river in distance]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.106.11
[man standing next to wooden Russian Orthodox cross on bluff overlooking river in distance]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.106.12
[man next to wooden Russian Orthodox cross on bluff overlooking river in distance]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.106.9
[wooden Russian Orthodox cross on bluff overlooking river in distance]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.13
Jim Douglas's grave, he died in 1947, alone, he was a miner [white picket fenced grave with marker for James A. Douglas]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.14
Jim Douglas's grave, he died in 1947, alone, he was a miner [white picket fenced grave with marker for James A. Douglas]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.15.6
[Russian Orthodox graveyard with crosses, fences, trees]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.15.7
[completed fish trap set on ground outside wooden building in summer, barrel next to building, entrance to subterannean house or barabara in background, fence around Russian Orthodox grave on hill in distance]
Keywords: ethnotechnology, fishing, residences, houses, religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.17.10
[portrait of dog next to Russian Orthodox cross grave marker, ice filled river in background, possibly Yukon River]
Keywords: religion, animals, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.19.10
[portrait of dog standing next to Russian Orthodox cross grave marker, river in background, possibly Yukon River]
Keywords: animals, religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.20.3
[portrait of dog standing next to Russian Orthodox cross grave marker, river in background, possibly Yukon River]
Keywords: animals, religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.20.4
[portrait of dog standing next to Russian Orthodox cross grave marker, river in background, possibly Yukon River]
Keywords: animals, religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.29.5
Funeral of a young boy who went out trapping and presumably died of hypothermia. The priest's name was Vassily Changsak. Russian Mission [men in procession with coffin near church]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.53.13
Cemetery in Nulato [grave markers, crosses, pennants on poles]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.54.4
[Russian Orthodox church and graveyard in winter, Russian Mission? cf. .13.5-.13.6]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.54.5
[Russian Orthodox church and graveyard in winter, Russian Mission? cf. .13.5-.13.6]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.58.17
Mountain Village grave marker [stone cairn on hill overlooking Yukon River]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.58.18
[four people in cemetery in foreground, village buildings and church in background, Fort Yukon?]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.58.8
Nulato, 1934 [cemetery with grave markers, crosses, flagpole, and pennants on poles]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014