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B2017.024.1366
Diomede, Feb 1962 [woman wearing parka, eyeglasses; child, structures in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1327
Diomede, Feb 1962 "9. Trooper & Diomede Mayor" [winter street scene; two men stand talking; mayor wears binoculars around neck; structures in background; church]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1320
Diomede, Feb 1962 [man with ice fising tools, snow, structures in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.626
E45 Diomede Island mother & child, Frank Morgan photo [portrait of woman with braide hair, wearing fabric parka with fur trim child inside back of parka, belt, knit stocking cap, headscarf, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
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
B2017.024.1377
Diomede, Feb 1962 [three men and one woman wearing parkas pose in front of structures; eyeglasses]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1321
Diomede, Feb 1962 "5. Trooper & kids at Diomede Store" [trooper and children pose in snow outside Diomede Native Store]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1333
Diomede, Feb 1962 "19. Diomede girl & baby sister" [girl carries child on her back while third child stands behind them, possibly in a doorway]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1322
Diomede, Feb 1962 "11. Mayor scans ice for Red soldiers" [man at top of stairs looks through telescope; structures below; mountain in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.1885
Meekin's Lodge, Mile 110 Glen Highway [log roadhouse on Glenn Highway. copy neg]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.1376
Diomede, Feb 1962 [person wearing red parka with fur ruff, eyeglasses]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.629
Frank Morgan photo "E48 Diomede Is from ship" [people in two boats traveling toward Diomede, shore, structures in background, motor, oars, tow rope; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.633
E51 Diomede Island - fleshing a seal, Frank Morgan photo "Little Diomede" [woman wearing fabric parka, bootsuses ulu on seal hide, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.625
E44 An Alaskan family "at Fort Yukon" [man, woman wearing kuspuk, mukluks, with child on her back, two children standing, outside log structure, possibly a store, window, HIlls Bros. Coffee sign; Standard Gasoline can, wood crate to left, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
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
B2017.024.1314
Diomede, Feb 1962 [man wearing parka, mittens, sits holding gun with scope, cigarette]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1345
Diomede, Mar 1962 [man stands on elevated planks looking toward sea ice (?); structures in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1347
Diomede, Feb 1962 [man wearing parka poses in front of wood frame of umiak]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1369
Diomede, Feb 1962 [Woman in eyeglasses poses with three children in snow; parkas]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1319
Diomede, Feb 1962 [man wearing parka, smoking cigarette; mountains in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1997.019.10full
Arriving at the edge of the open water the boat is cached.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B2014.016.1777
Kakhonak. Native Aleut along stream [portrait of man on gravel beach]
Keywords: clothing
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
B2017.024.1368
Diomede, Feb 1962 [two men look through possibly telescope or binoculars; children, dog, structures, snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.638
E55 Eskimo blanket toss at Anchorage "City Hall, 1950" [Fur Rendezvous, A boy is high in the air above blanket, surrounded by large croud; automobiles, people standing on pickup truck, wet streets, Food Center sign across street, Northwest Airlines sign; label is affixed to neg with cellophane tape]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.1344
Diomede, Mar 1962 [woman wearing parka leans over porch railing; structures, mountains in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1370
Diomede, Feb 1962 [woman posing in front of group of people, one looking through telescope (?); dog, structures]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1375
Diomede, Feb 1962 [three men standing in front of structure; two looking through binoculars]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.630
E48 Diomede Island, Alaska, Frank Morgan photo "Diomede Is from ship" [same as .629, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.1331
Diomede, Feb 1962 "17. Seal hunters chat - Diomede, Fed 1962 “17. Seal hunters chat – Diomede” [At AFN 2022, individual on the right identified as Melvin Kuyokuk (not sure of spelling)]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Diomede, Hunting, Seral hunting, Harpoon, Seal poke, Snow
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1346
Diomede, Feb 1962 [men, women, children pose in front of Diomede Native Store, dog in lower left; structures and rock wall in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1996.009.12full
Before embarking, a piece of cooked whale skin is partaken of by each from a charm spoon and wooden pail after a fast of 24 hours, then with a piece of native graphite the tribal mark is drawn on the forehead of each.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B2017.024.1365
Diomede, Feb 1962 [man, woman, dogs stand in front of structure, snow; woman holds a bowl]
Collection: B2017.024
B2014.016.1901
Kotzebue, arriving in plane formerly owned by Gene Autry – Native children meet all planes mostly to ride on tractor-drawn sled which is only airport transportation. Note: it is wiser to walk the ½ mile over path thru tundra to town [group of children and adults gathered near small airplane, tail number NC59233, parked on airstrip, buildings in background; at AFN 2014, plane identified as belonging to Bob Baker’s Baker Airlines]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2014.016
B2014.016.1899
Kotzebue, visiting Little Diomed Eskimo showing ivory carving, 18 months service in World War II [Alaska Native man in military uniform sitting under umiak and using chin drill to carve ivory, open box of tools at his feet]
Keywords: clothing, military, carving, boats, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2014.016
B2017.024.1313
21. Hunter returns empty-handed, Diomede. Photographer's number: 01520 [man walking away from camera across ice, carrying spear and hunting bag, 1960s]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.632
E50 House party at Diomede Island, Alaska, Frank Morgan photo [three women perform dance moves while seated on shelves in corner of room, possibly a kitchen; skin drums in foreground, man in lower right, bowls, pans on lower shelf, bottles, cans on upper shelf, possibly a snowshoe in upper center of image; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.004.42.81
Juries, T67642, 4/3/81, Judge Brian Shortell courtroom, for Time magazine [Art Snowden posed in computer room]
Collection: B2016.004