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B1994.022.850
(Mountains from Billum's cabin)
Keywords: landscape, mountains
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1989.016.375.4
General Fish docks, Anchorage [actually bluff along Cook Inlet with houses; Bootleggers Cove? Turnagain?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.375.5
General Fish docks, Anchorage [actually bluff along Cook Inlet with houses; Bootleggers Cove? Turnagain?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.376.1
Boomtown, Old Anchorage [inside at deli counter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2010.023.592a
:Carrying basket and coarse matting baskets containing frozen tomcod on cache roof; Fig. 51 (fig. 83) VanStone, James W. 'Nunivak Island Eskimo (Yuit) Technology and Material Culture" Fieldiana: Anthropology New Series 12 (1989) 96" [sod roof; antlers; snow]
Collection: B2010.023
B2011.007.8.100
Kipnuk, Alaska. 1930s [view of village from distance]
Collection: B2011.007 Mary Breu Etta Jones Collection
B1980.050.14
(104)(The Merrill Studio Sitka, Alaska){Native man dressed in ceremonial clothes seated infront of a large american flag}
Keywords: native man, traditional dress, ceremony, flag, chief
Collection: B1980.050 Roy Barron
B1994.022.929
(Copper River and Northwestern Railway)
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1973.079.151
[Nina Cron dressed in a winter parka is standing on a small hill in winter overlooking multiple boats this to include up to seven paddle wheel and steam vessels moored along the shore at St. Michael's]
Keywords: boats, harbor, port, winter, ice, ships, woman
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1984.077.17.015
Pioneer bus terminal; round trip $3.50 Anchorage, Palmer [building, mud, automobile, planks, utility poles. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.150.1
(catastrophe)(Easter 1947)(Presbyterian Church Choir Then on NW corner of 5th and Fst.)(Anchorage Historical)
Keywords: religion
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2007.005.6.A7
[unknown native woman standing outside infront of entrance to an underground house ]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1998.014.1.640
E56 Eskimo 'Wolf Dance,' at Anchorage, Alaska [dancers in wolf head masks, gloves, crouch; people sit on table behind wof dancers, some in fur parkas; possible leader sits facing dancers; auditorium, stage, backdrop of sea and sea ice; label is taped to neg, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.154
[Three Native Alaskans and several reindeer standing by sled in the snow]
Keywords: winter, reindeer, native, eskimo, central yupik natives, parkas
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.62
[Valdez 1906 street scene, with the signage for "Alaska Prospector"]
Keywords: frontier, town
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B2013.058.356
[man, probably pilot, sitting on lift struts of Golden Eagle Chief airplane, same airplane as in .354]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2013.058
B2014.023.021
(People with lawn umbrella)(Brown's, Jeanne, ?)[Jack Brown, Nellie Brown, Jean Laurence and two un identified individuals sitting in lawn chairs around a picnic table with opened umbrella infront of a road house or lodge]
Collection: B2014.023
B2022.005.188
[Indigenous Alaskan child in fur parka looking at snow; man seated on small platform in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young boy, Child, Boy, Parka, Fur parka, Clothing, Outerwear, Snow, Winter, Man, Seated, Sitting, Platform, Landscape
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1980.050.15
(5x4 copy neg)(Rudolph Walton, carver)(Dance staff in photo on loan from Sitka Natl Historic Park)(191){Native man dressed in traditional clothes holding a Raven and standing next to a dance staff}
Keywords: native man, dancer, traditional dress
Collection: B1980.050 Roy Barron
B1989.016.1459.3
(Native handicraft) [young girl on wooden bench in large room sewing parka, other women sitting along the wall. Nulato orphanage, 1937]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.849
(Mountain Peak and climber)
Keywords: landscape, montaineer
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1998.014.1.641
A group of visitors to the Fur Rendezvous from the Alaskan Arctic. The Eskimo games, dances and art exhibits are most welcomed and looked-forward to each year. "E57 Diomede Eskimos at Anchorage, 1950" [people, dancers, Sammy Mogg, Frank Ellana, pose in snowy ball field, mukluks, fur parkas, man in rear center wears military uniform; fence with signs for Murmac Lounge, City Bank, Rainier Beer in background, structures, McKinley Tower, house, trees in distance; caption label is taped to neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.024.005
Picture showing Native Alaska Eskimous near Alaska Packers Cannery [Bristol Bay]
Collection: B2009.024
B2014.023.023
(People with lawn umbrella)(Brown's, Jeanne, ?)[Jack Brown, Nellie Brown, Jean Laurence and two un identified individuals sitting in lawn chairs around a picnic table with opened umbrella infront of a road house or lodge]
Collection: B2014.023
B2022.005.245
[a white man in military uniform and an Indigenous woman in western clothes standing with a crowd of people behind them]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, military, Alaska
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2053.26
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [man driving automobile with American flags and banner with slogan "Not a lazy drop in a drum full!!" with barrel and pump [?] in back of truck, other automobiles in background]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.38
E-56 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [three men in parkas on gravel beach, operating a camera]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.4
E-24 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [man wearing glasses in store or gallery with displays of Native arts and crafts including ivory carvings, mukluks, dolls; Eklutna Vocational School student or teacher]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.49
E-72 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [two women, one wearing printed parka with fur trim, the other wearing a fur parka with geometric decoration, standing outside, mountains in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1973.079.141
[unknown mountainous and rocky coastline as seen from the rail of a vessel sailing offshore][negative cracked]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.158
[Native Alaskan family dressed in winter parkas standing in front of house]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.87
[sled dogs pulling a sled with several men standing around]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1989.016.1455.2.edit
43. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [Alaska Native woman with fur and bead headdress, lip and nose piercings. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.346
Rainbow trout. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.007.84
I. N. [Alaska Native family posed next to building, man wearing bib overalls, woman and children wearing cloth parkas with fur trim]
Keywords: clothing, residences
Collection: B2015.007