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laundryonsolitude
[laundry drying on the sailboat Solitude]
Keywords: boats, recreation
Collection: B2015.026
B2017.017.202
[Russian Orthodox church, laundry hanging on clothesline in foreground]
Collection: B2017.017
B2022.001.051
DeBarr Quality Cleaners & Laundry, before it became Mayfield’s Quality Cleaners, 1990 [Exterior of DeBarr Quality Cleaners & Laundry]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, DeBarr Road, Anchorage, DeBarr Quality Cleaners & Laundry, DeBarr Quality Cleaners and Laundry, Business, Mayfield's Quality Cleaners, Exterior, Building, Car, Transporation, Parking Lot
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1993.020.3056
Nome & Pribilof Island Eskimos [passing Snow White Laundry]
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B2022.001.052
DeBarr Quality Cleaners & Laundry before it became Mayfield’s Quality Cleaners, DeBarr Road, 1990 [Exterior and parking lot of DeBarr Quality Cleaners & Laundry]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, DeBarr Road, Anchorage, DeBarr Quality Cleaners & Laundry, DeBarr Quality Cleaners and Laundry, Business, Mayfield's Quality Cleaners, Exterior, Building, Car, Transporation, Parking Lot
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
b2012.006.469
[two children standing outside shingled house, laundry on clothesline at right; no date]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B2012.006
B2013.066.259
Fish rack & clothes, Kakhonak 1962 [laundry and salmon on drying rack]
Collection: B2013.066
B1994.022.762
(Fairbanks, Alaska Hotel Alaska)[Native Alaskan family standing in front of the Fairbanks Laundry Co.]
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2017.024.2713
Nome July 1983 Street scenes [woman walking next to clothesline, laundry, structures]
Collection: B2017.024
B1994.022.764
(Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks laundry Co. Eskimo Clothing)[Chena River Biplane on shore with boats and skiffs]
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2015.008.1316.t39
T39 [base camp on rocky slope, with tent at left, laundry on clothesline at right, glacier
in background]
Keywords: mountaineering, glacier, climbing, crevasse, mountain
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1316.t39crop
T39 [base camp on rocky slope, with tent at left, laundry on clothesline at right, glacier
in background]
Keywords: mountaineering, glacier, climbing, crevasse, mountain
Collection: B2015.008
B2022.003.80
F 128 136, Outdoor Laundry [one individual kneeling next to a metal basin and washboard]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Metal basin, Washboard, Laundry
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
B2022.001.132
Newspaper clipping, “No vacation from dirty laundry”, photograph in front of Mayfield’s Quality Cleaners on DeBarr Road, undated
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Newspaper, Clipping, Mayfield's Quality Cleaner, Laundromat, DeBarr Road, Sharon Anthony, John Robison, Peter Hodun
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.149
Letter to Mayfield Evans from Richard B. Wells, President, Automated Laundry Systems & Supply, November 15, 1996
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Letter, RIchard B. Wells, Richard Wells, Automated Laundry Systems & Supply, Community, Gratitude, Thank you, Thanks, Award ceremony, Award
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1983.091.S1450.080
8/13/53 NCL Trip: Village of Quinhakak (Quinhagak) general views [structures, clotheslines, laundry, steel drums (containers)]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.2018.1.152.005
50-2; Pennock Island house [wood structure; laundry hanging on clothesline; campfire at right; likely on beach; summer 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.152.006
50-2; Pennock Island house [wood structure; laundry hanging on clothesline; campfire at right; likely on beach; summer 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.010.3320
[village waterfront as seen from water, with driftwood, boats, metal barrels and other debris on riverbank, laundry on clothesline between buildings in background]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.6.14
[two Alaska Native men and young boy standing outdoors in summer, dog in grass at right, laundry on clothesline in background]
Keywords: clothing, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B2003.019.141
Mary Darling [people gathered indoors, laundry hanging on clothesline above, young girl on unicycle at left, Anaktuvuk Pass]
Keywords: recreation, residences
Collection: B2003.019 Louise Weeks
B1989.016.2270.13
(Road construction, housing) [workman walking over boardwalk to small building, clothesline with laundry at left, Lytle and Green trailer at right]
Keywords: houses, residences, roads, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.239.003
73-3 [Sitka September 1941; view of laundry hanging on clothesline above pier; boat in foreground; wood structures, boats in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.239.004
73-3 [Sitka September 1941; view of laundry hanging on clothesline above pier; boat in foreground; wood structures, boats in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2056.1
(1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army unit with snowshoes) [men in uniform standing in formation outside Sno White Laundry, Anchorage, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2477
"Sticking shutter shots; town near river" [waterway with stones and concrete reinforcing banks; wire fencing; structures; bridges; laundry hanging on clothesline]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.007.98
[young Alaska Native man and woman wearing Western style clothing posed next to wooden house, metal barrels and laundry on clothesline in background]
Keywords: clothing, residences
Collection: B2015.007
B1990.014.2018.1.190.003
62-2 view in Thomas Basin [view of basin from water; pilings; structures; laundry; people on deck in background; mountain in distance; February 1941; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2000.003.kimura.18
Frank and George Kimura and delivery crew, 5th and C Street, 1940 [men outside Snow White Laundry in Anchorage. From Legends & Legacies by Bagoy]
Keywords: businesses, minorities, Asian Americans, Japanese Americans
Collection: B2000.003
B1989.016.2056.6
Hewitt's 6 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army unit with skis) [men in uniform standing in formation outside Sno White Laundry, Anchorage, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.190.004
62-2 view in Thomas Basin [view of basin from water; pilings; structures; boats; laundry; people on deck in background; mountain in distance; February 1941; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2019.007.343
Nondalton, May 8, 1992 [two children riding one bicycle on gravel road; pickup truck, structures, laundry hanging on clothesline; water; trash can and bags in background]
Collection: B2019.007
B2021.002.008
Fleming neighbors [one man, one woman, and one child standing with a tree and laundry line directly behind and two cameras on the ground at left, houses in the background.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1995.010.3269
[Phyllis McCutcheon walking down road past houses and caches, three children with balloons standing at right, communications tower in right background, laundry on clothesline at left, Kaltag?]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.011.032
Junction City [summer scene of men posing in front of buildings, signs reading “Muirhead Bros. Landscape Photographers,” “M & S Store,” and “Branch of the Atlin Laundry”
Collection: B1998.011
B2017.024.3355
June 1971 [likely Savoonga; spring breakup scene; men standing and sitting near doorway of structure; man carving tusk; children, snow, laundry on clothesline; snowmanchines; dog]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3355
June 1971 [likely Savoonga; spring breakup scene; men standing and sitting near doorway of structure; man carving tusk; children, snow, laundry on clothesline; snowmanchines; dog]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3356
June 1971 [Savoonga spring breakup scene; people walking on boardwalk, person on roof; structures; bicycle next to snow, church in distance, laundry hanging on clothesline in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.771
[Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, winter street scene with snow piles, businesses including a laundry, George's Tailor Shop, Terminal Cafe, Hotel Nevada, Kenai Rooms, Jo's Place]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.153.001
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
B1990.014.2018.1.153.002
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
B1991.011.1225
Point Hope; Fred Fisher, teacher [winter scene of people wearing parkas, dog sled, dog looking at seal; gun leaning against seal; structures, clothesline with laundry in background]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1995.010.3290
[village waterfront as seen from river, corrugated metal building and log building painted green with striped awning in center, laundry on clothesline at left, people and boats on riverbank. Cf. .3059, .3282]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.2056.4
Hewitt's 4 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army unit with flags) [military unit standing in formation with flags on Anchorage street, Linder Rooms and Sno White Laundry in background, Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2005.013.117
Hooper Bay village, Catholic Church at left (backgr’d), 7-8-51 [young girl walking along tramway rails, handcar on tracks, with buildings, drying racks, laundry on clothesline at left]
Collection: B2005.013