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B1994.022.854
(people)( a man dressed in Arabic dress)
Keywords: costume
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2022.002.42
Cal Williams dressed in white, singing
Keywords: Cal Williams, Music, Singing
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1989.016.376.11
Boomtown, Old Anchorage [inside dress shop]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.376.12
Boomtown, Old Anchorage [inside dress shop]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.376.13
Boomtown, Old Anchorage [inside dress shop]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2011.007.8.107
Each little girl made her own dress, also what is underneath.
Collection: B2011.007 Mary Breu Etta Jones Collection
B1980.050.18
(5x4 copy neg)(hat in U of Penn Museum)(190){two native men dressed in ceremonial dress standing infront of an unknown building}
Collection: B1980.050 Roy Barron
B1994.022.933
(festivals)[people dressed in elephant costume standing infront of a building]
Keywords: costume
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.934
(festivals)[people dressed in elephant costume standing infront of a building]
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1980.050.16
(189)(4x5 copy neg){native man dressed in traditional clothes holding a ornate dance staff or paddle)
Keywords: traditional dress, native man
Collection: B1980.050 Roy Barron
B1973.079.155
[Mrs Cron and Alma getting dressed on front porch steps]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1984.077.17.019
[person dressing? long underwear, bed, window, blurry image.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.152
(catastrophe)(August 30, 1945)(Carols Dress Shop 4th Ave)(Anchorage Historical)
Keywords: shopping, clothing
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1993.019.026
[Vera Liebel standing in front of doorway wearing nurse's dress]
Collection: B1993.019 Liebel
B2007.005.6.B10
[native woman dressed in a gut parka tends to fishing nets]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1998.014.1.644
"E58 Native head dress, Klukwan Native" [woman wearing head dress with wood totemic figures, fur, possibly ermine, robe; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1970.028.102
The Author Dressed as Medicine Man At Methodist ___? in Columbus, Ohio 1919
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1973.079.114
[two people dressed in winter parkas seated on boardwalk with snow all around]
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
B1973.079.68
[women dressed in fur parkas standing/seated on a boardwalk in fron of row houses]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1991.21.12
A portrait of 16 people dressed in traditional Scandanavian costumes posing for the photographer
Keywords: portrait, scandanavian, festival, costumes
Collection: B1991.021
B2013.058.495
(Woman dressed in night gown standing infront of mirror looking at a comb)
Keywords: mirror, dressor, night gown, stool
Collection: B2013.058
B2014.023.011
(Jeanne)[woman posing for a portrait standing infront of a large tree in wearing a dress]
Keywords: portrait, woman, tree
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.025
(Nymph Nellie and the gang)[six people dressed in costume posed on a garden/ lawn]
Collection: B2014.023
B2022.005.191
[Two Indigenous Alaskan young women in dresses smiling; boy wearing costume gun holster at right. Girl in white dress possibly Elva "Willie" Amidon]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young women, Teenager, Teen, Dress, Smile, Smiling, Boy, Costume, Holster, Gun holster, House, Home, Interior, Elva Amidon, Elva "Willie" Amidon, Willie Amidon
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1980.050.19
(4x5 copy neg)(41){Native man standing on board walk dressed in traditional clothes holding an ornate staff and carved bird}
Keywords: traditional dress, native man
Collection: B1980.050 Roy Barron
B1989.016.1461.1
(Native dress) [young man in fur parka with dog, buildings visible in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.853
(people including a man dressed in Arabic robe)[7 people posed on door front]
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1998.014.1.2400
"Bread - slices w/holes; doll in hole" [doll dressed as bride positioned for photograph]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.645
"E58 Native head dress, Klukwan Native" [same as .645, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.026.25
Just like we will dress also our reindeer specimen and sled in background. This is just like we will look. Mama, Aug. 12th, 1919.
Collection: B2009.026
B2014.023.027
(Nymph Nellie and the Gang, two women on lawn one painting the other dressed as a butterfly)
Collection: B2014.023
B2022.005.249
[a group of people in western and Indigenous dress boarding a Wien Alaska Airlines airplane]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Wien Alaska Airlines, airplane
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2053.3
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932, 3) [girl dressed as Statue of Liberty and boy dressed as Uncle Sam standing next to automobile parked in front of house]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.41
E-61-a (Queen Ruthie Johnson and attendants) [woman in evening dress, cape, and tiara, holding wand, standing on building steps with five young women in printed dresses, Eklutna? 1937?]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.43
E-65 (Queen Ruthie Johnson and attendants) [woman in evening dress, cape, and tiara, holding wand, standing on building steps with five young women in printed dresses, Eklutna? 1937?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.52
E-75 (Queen Ruthie Johnson and attendants) [woman in evening dress, cape, and tiara, holding wand, standing on building steps with five young women in printed dresses, Eklutna? 1937?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1973.079.145
[Four Native Alaskan women standing on the front porch of a house dressed in winter parkas]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.162
[unidentified group of people dressed in winter clothes in front of Russian blockhouse, St Michael]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.91
[three women dressed in traditional fur winter parkas standing on boardwalk in front of house]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1984.055.271a
George Sullivan presenting awards to five men, one wearing dress military uniform
Collection: B1984.055
B1989.016.1458
[group of seven Eskimo women dancing in snow near log fence, all dressed in white]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.350.1
83. In winter dress. Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop. [tree with hoar frost]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection