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B2015.008.1081
213.8 [Dora on horseback, same day as .1080, tree-lined sidewalk in background, two
women walking at left]
Keywords: horse, horseback riding, trees
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.969
[Dora on horseback, building in background, mountains in distance. Proof print]
Keywords: horse
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1240
At 14,000 ft. in the Andes, and still no snow [rider on horseback on steep slope]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.740
"K11 McKinley Park, Horseback riding, Savage Camp" [military servicemen on horseback in meadow, river, tents in center distance, mountains, road in background, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.611.1
#20. Mt. McKinley from the trail. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [woman on horseback]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1235
Paraguay. A native farmer or campesino. 52 [portrait of man on horseback holding gourd]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.970
[Dora on horseback, building in background, mountains in distance. Proof print]
[similar to .969]
Keywords: horse
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.967
78.7. Miss Dora Keen on Elsa in Fairmount Park [Dora on horseback in wooded area,
Philadelphia. Additional caption information erased. With Stamp of Dora Keen]
Keywords: horse, horseback riding
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.611.2
#20. Mt. McKinley from horse trail. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [woman on horseback]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.749
334.1. Crossing the Nizina. 8.25.10 [man on horseback fording broad river. Proof print]
Keywords: Nizina River, horses, pack horse, man
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.People.12.84
"7/4/47; 1745-32; Palmer boy scouts on horseback with colors, 4th [of] July parade, 1947"
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B2015.008.858
White River, 1912 [distant view of two men on horseback leading pack train across
river]
Keywords: pack horse, river
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.881
Solo Creek Flats, Alaska [man on horseback and pack horse in valley. Poor quality print]
Keywords: pack horse
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.986
Jack Freeman on John [young man on horseback on driveway, Dora’s nephew. Excised
from photo album]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.921
[Dora on horseback at camp or settlement, man holding reins of horse in center,
buildings under construction in background]
Keywords: horse, pack horse, cabin
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.14.5.People.12.153
People-Parades-Anchorage 7/49; 7/4/49 [man on horseback in western wear, card deck motif on chaps, spectators]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1979.002.Album1.32
M-29. Montana Creek. W. F. Milliken [men on horseback fording creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.1231
104. Paraguay, Apr. ’09. Diligence between Pirapó & Encarnación [men on horseback leading horse-drawn carriage]
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.26
M-26. Fording Montana River. W. F. Milliken [men on horseback crossing creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2146.15
#15 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [group on horseback passing City Hall on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2149.4
R-2, #28B (Rodeo on the Fourth of July, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [horseback riders in field, spectators and bus in background]
Keywords: animal husbandry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.739
"K10 McKinley Park, Horse back riding recreation camp" [military servicemen riding horseback along path, trees, mountains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.1132
Madrid, mounted troops coming into the palace courtyard for noon review. In the background, the Royal Armory [soldiers on horseback passing palace gates]
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.260b
R7-4. W. C. Edes at Ship Creek [man on horseback near tent filled with hay, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.263
R7-3. W. C. Edes at Ship Creek [man on horseback near tent filled with hay, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.1253
Chile, 3000 sheep being driven in to Frigorifico near Punta Arenas, Straits of Magellan, to be butchered and sent to London [man on horseback driving herd]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.864
White River, 1913 [three men on foot and two men on horseback leading pack train
over frozen river, open water in foreground]
Keywords: horse, White River, pack horse
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.316
Valdez-Fairbanks Trail. R15-6. D. L. Reaburn [loaded pack horses passing log buildings, man on horseback at right, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.39
M-24. Fording Sheep Creek. W. F. Milliken [man on horseback leading two pack horses across creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2149.1
12-3, #25B (Rodeo on the Fourth of July, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [one man being thrown by steer, three men on horseback in field]
Keywords: animal husbandry, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.003.026
(555 Camp Comfort near Keystone Telegraph Office 1902)[9 men on and off horseback gathered around a log cabin with two women greeting two men]
Keywords: cabin, horse, dogs
Collection: B1998.003
B1989.016.2146.13
#13 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [group on horseback stopped outside Rexall Drugs at corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album1.33
M-25. Pack train. W. F. Milliken [men on horseback leading group of pack horses down gravel bank of creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2198.8
Lomen Bros. Nome #878 [hydraulic mining on Snow Gulch, Pioneer Mining Co., miners, tents, man on horseback. copy neg, original caption cropped from image]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1065
Bathing in the Susquehanna near camp_Camp Geo G Meade PA USA 1898[ view from bluff along beach man on horseback on beach at left swimmers in water in distance]
Keywords: swimming, horse, river, beach
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1080
213.6. D.K. [arrow] [men and women on horseback on tree-lined street, spectators
and policemen lining street, Dora on horse at right, rider in front wearing ceremonial sash]
Keywords: parade, horse, policemen
Collection: B2015.008
B2018.023.116a
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [four men, one on horseback, pose; possibly at Mt. Rainier National Park; hand colored
Collection: B2018.023
B1979.002.Album1.37
M-30. Part of pack train. W. F. Milliken [man on horseback leading three pack horses down gravel bank of creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1990.014.2018.1.20.002
5-4; Troubadour in show window [ceramic figures in store window including cowboy on horseback; men in sombreros; flowering plant; Chinese checkers game; 1939?; possibly Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.20.002
5-4; Troubadour in show window [ceramic figures in store window including cowboy on horseback; men in sombreros; flowering plant; Chinese checkers game; 1939?; possibly Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2021.004.275
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, Members, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Horseback, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2018.023.116b
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City ['verso of slide: four men, one on horseback, pose; possibly at Mt. Rainier National Park; hand colored
Collection: B2018.023
B2021.004.272
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition [Children with winners banner. ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Children, Youth, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1979.002.Album1.304
Copper Center. R15-3, D. L. Reaburn [two men on horseback with pack horses on trail leading into settlement, with log buildings and walled tent, woman standing at right, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2055.7
7 (July 4, 1938, parade) [men on horseback, horse-drawn wagon, and truck carrying logs assembled on field, possibly baseball field, with advertisements along back wall, truck with banner advertising a sawmill]
Keywords: businesses, animal husbandry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2146.12
#12 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [group on horseback passing Alaska Transfer Co., New Method Cleaners, and Richmond's Restaurant near corner of Fourth Avenue and G Street in Anchorage]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2055.9
9 (July 4, 1938, parade) [men on horseback in parking lot, with parked automobiles in background, man at right in polo outfit, three men with cowboy hats, boy on pony with painted face, possibly rodeo clown]
Keywords: animal husbandry, recreation, sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.009.23
Leaving Wasilla Roadhouse after an Easter holiday, 1915. Mrs. Tharp, Emerelda and P.J. McDonald [three people outside log building, identified by Skip Coghlan as Thorpe's Roadhouse, two people on horseback. Printed on postcard stock]
Collection: B1998.009 Patrick McDonald
B1989.016.2146.14
#14 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [group on horseback with sign "North Pole Riding Academy" passing Alaska Transfer Co.and federal building near corner of Fourth Avenue and G Street in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection