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B2022.005.91
[Indigenous Alaskan woman and child in parka, mukluks, and gloves outside building midwinter; fur parka likely reindeer/caribou, possibly Inupiaq style]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Child, Mother, Family, Parka, Mukluks, Gauntlets, Gloves, Mittens, Fur, Reindeer, Caribou, Outerwear, Clothing, Footwear, Building, Structure, House, Winter, Snow, Inupiaq, Inupiat
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.153.002
50-3 Pennock Island house [wood structure near beach with ladder leaning against roof; logs; fire at lower right of image; laundry hanging on clothesline; likely 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.153.003
50-3; old houses on point at Pennock Island [wood structures near shore; water; likely 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1991.011.1203
Point Hope, May 1947; Ester Lane & her 2 brothers; note sod house in background [parkas, tundra]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2017.024.1986.darting01
Polar bear survey -- drug dart shot into hip takes 15 minutes.
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3023
July 1983, aerials, villages [view of shoreline, sandbar or spit, structures, road, bridge, possibly lagoon, boats; underside of aircraft wing visible in upper right of image]
Collection: B2017.024
B1991.011.1222
Holding spiked wooden ball for recovering King Eider ducks from water
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.16a
(Anchorage Schools Old Anchorage High School)(12 Apr 1951 -4 2163 51- High school- south side of bldg showing kids playing catch - 12 Apr 1951 when school was on 5th Ave at E St.)(3 negatives)
Keywords: school, education, anchorage
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B1995.014.49.7
[view of military installation, overlooking Quonset huts buried in snow, bay in distance, Adak]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B2000.017.308
Griffin’s [commercial slide. Two young children wearing parkas with fur trim standing outdoors, Barrow? No date]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B1998.014.1.2248
"moose mural (fighting)" [two bull moose fighting, as third stands in left background; copy neg of diorama painting made by Fred Scherer]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.754
L4 Matanuska Valley farm "1946 postcard, (neg & print)" [hayfield, haystacks in foreground, structures, barn, dwelling, windmill in midground, mountains, clouds in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.004b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial photographer; 625 Colman Block; Seattle. [verso of aerial view of town, likely Nome; winter scene; snow; structures; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.005a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto [Baltimore?] [Caption:] "In the far north, one mile out. On Behring [sic: Bearing] Sea, Nome, Alaska" [label] "42" [men, women, children pose on jumbled sea ice; dogs, dogsled, skis, parkas, woman waves an American flag]
Collection: B2018.023
B1975.104.021
Anchorage 1940-49 [parade, military marching band, hardware store, I Bayles Clothing]
Collection: B1975.104 Dorothy Zappa Collection
B2018.023.016a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [D.A.A.A. (Dawson Amateur Athletic Association) Theatre, Dawson, Yukon, exterior; man walking along boardwalk; possible fuel tank at right; utility poles; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.016b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: D.A.A.A. (Dawson Amateur Athletic Association) Theatre, Dawson, Yukon, exterior; man walking along boardwalk; possible fuel tank at right; utility poles; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023