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B2000.014.605
(605)(School Musicians Tanana Apr 5 1916)
Keywords: children
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2013.049.74
[musicians on deck of ship, including guitars and banjo, possibly the U.S.S. Boxer?]
Keywords: transportation, ships, musical instruments
Collection: B2013.049 Kane
B2017.023.227
[musicians playing for audience, service men, tables, benches, beer bottles]
Collection: B2017.023
B1989.016.1624.3
3. (Dedicating the Aurora Train, Alaska Railroad) [Army band marching on Fourth Avenue at E Street, passing Hewitt's Drug Store, Cheechako Tavern, and Alaska Airlines]
Keywords: musicians
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.023.228
[musicians playing for audience guitar, banjo, mandolin, service men, woman, picnic tables, bottles, views through windows]
Collection: B2017.023
B2016.010.164
Ready for dinner, music [musicians playing guitar, bass, and violin playing for people seated at table in dining room aboard ship]
Collection: B2016.010
B1996.035.8.7.60
Western Night, Hail & Farewell, June 1968, Gary Wade & John Drainer [musicians performing on stage, Adak club]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B1990.014.2018.1.39.006
16-1 June Plus X - 128 day Weston; DK 20-21 min @ 70 degrees; Pictures from "Roberta" taken c 1/8 c f2; others @ 128 Weston reading [musicians performing; woman standing in center of group of musicians; possibly musical "Roberta"' Ketchikan, 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.39.006
16-1 June Plus X - 128 day Weston; DK 20-21 min @ 70 degrees; Pictures from "Roberta" taken c 1/8 c f2; others @ 128 Weston reading [musicians performing; woman standing in center of group of musicians; possibly musical "Roberta"' Ketchikan, 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2177.5
8 (Parade) [night, truck with banner "Kitty's Kitchen Band" carrying musicians past businesses including The Hub, Bill's Electric Supply and McVicker's, Fourth Avenue, Fur Rendezvous?]
Keywords: musical instruments
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.007.099
[American Legion group gathered next to Alaska Railroad train, many men wearing stovepipe hats and fur coats, marching band musicians at head of group, Leonhard Seppala with dog team at rear]
Collection: B2013.007
B1998.014.1.1296
(O85 Anchorage Circus, July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus; human cannonball; net; musicians in right background; circus ring in foreground, business signs in background: Cold beer, Liquor store, D & D Lounge, McAllister Signs; automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1288
Circus comes to Anchorage (O85 July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus, aerialists, trapeze performers, ladders, equipment in foreground; musicians performing in background; spectators looking over fence at McAllister Signs, D & D Lounge, Liquor Store in left bakcground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley