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B2022.005.95
[Two Indigenous Alaskan boys carrying armfuls of firewood]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Boys, Children, Child, Toddler, Wood, Firewood, Armful, Carry, Carrying, Fuel
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.153.006
50-3; 4 roofs, Pennock Is[land] [four structures, one with plank ramp to door; firewood; pilings; likely 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.154.001
50-4; 4 roofs on Pennock [four structures on island, one with plank ramp to door; firewood; pilings; likely 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1991.011.115
"Eek 1949; Eskimo Country west of Anchorage" [winter scene with structures, cache, firewood, possibly the Eenayarak River in background]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.121
"Eek, 1949" [winter scene; people possibly cutting firewood, loading sledge; structures, tarpaper, windmill, likely river in background]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2017.024.2006
Kenai Peninsula, April 1969 [man walking across snow in front of log cabin with sod roof; firewood, snowshoes, antlers]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3042
July 1983, aerials, villages [view of man next to logs and cut firewood, pickup trucks, structures, likely greenhouse, water, pond]
Collection: B2017.024
B1997.003.072
[Louis Moncher, Furs & General Mdse, Bethel, building with ladders against wall and on roof; firewood, chicken wire enclosure in foreground]
Collection: B1997.003
B1991.011.123
"Eek 1949 on a 'whiteout' day" [winter scene with structure entrance at right, small cache at left; posssibly boats in background; firewood, likely river in distance]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.18
(Anchorage Schools Central Catholic Jr High 61)(5 June 1961 10984 Begin Catholic High School on Firewood Lane )(9th and A school (Denali)
Keywords: school, education, anchorage
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B1995.014.4.10
Marshall 1937. Al Morenzi's store and a house Bill Amowak bought from Sears and Roebuck in the early 1930s [village scene, with houses and stacks of firewood and barrels, Yukon River at right]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B2000.017.312
536. Hewitt’s Drug [commercial slide. Woman and child sitting on floor of house, woman feeding child, possibly Pilot Bread, firewood, pots and pans, and canned goods visible; no date]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B1998.014.1.2251
"Fish & Ed Holm" [man standing in doorway wearing waders and holding up large salmon; second salmon is at his feet; mop and firewood at left; bottle and paper bag inside structure]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.061.105
[horse-drawn wagon of U.S. mail service stopped outside log roadhouse with sign for Ed S. Orr Stage Line Chitina-Fairbanks Winter Circle Line, pile of firewood at right]
Keywords: businesses, transportation, animals, postal services
Collection: B2009.061
B1998.014.1.758
L6 An Alaskan Home "1946 postcard" Log cabin among birch and spruce trees, fence (possibly for garden), man wearing suit, holding hat standing near gate, firewood stacked to right of cabin; wash tub leaning against birch tree; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.006a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] Nome Dairy [label] “27” [winter scene people, men, cow atop snow drifts, covered roof of structure; two people with horse and cow at left; firewood, yoke, sign for Nome Dairy on snow; man carrying two milk cans using shoulder yoke, dog on roof]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.006b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] Nome Dairy [label] “27” [verso view of slide: winter scene people, men, cow atop snow drifts, covered roof of structure; two people with horse and cow at left; firewood, yoke, sign for Nome Dairy on snow; man carrying two milk cans using shoulder yoke, dog on roof]
Collection: B2018.023
B1975.127.006
Court House (Wrangel) [sic: Wrangell], HNT.13[?].94 [two-story plank-sided structure with "Court Room" sign at door; possibly upturned sofa on porch, bell on upstairs porch, rain barrel at right, external stairway at left; boy wearing sailor suit at far right next to plank walkway, killer whale totem at left foreground; firewood at left background, brick chimneys, log structure in right background is the Russian block house; fence]
Collection: B1975.127 Wrangell
B2018.023.018a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print photograph: “Broadway, Ruby, Alaska. A typical mining camp business street”] [street view of Ruby; mud street, firewood at right; wood boardwalks, cabins; structures; men walking along boardwalk, street; automobile; possible horse cart; businesses: L'aundry; Ruby Bakery and Cafe; A. Haarvei Outfitter & Grocer; possible Music Store; Post Office; The Senate; Baths; Dentist; banners hung over street; flagpoles and flags; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.018b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide] [from verso of print photograph: “Broadway, Ruby, Alaska. A typical mining camp business street”] [street view of Ruby; mud street, firewood at right; wood boardwalks, cabins; structures; men walking along boardwalk, street; automobile; possible horse cart; businesses: L'aundry; Ruby Bakery and Cafe; A. Haarvei Outfitter & Grocer; possible Music Store; Post Office; The Senate; Baths; Dentist; banners hung over street; flagpoles and flags; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023