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B1995.014.6.12
[riverboat with oars carrying supplies, tied to gravel beach]
Keywords: transportation, boats
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.3605
May 1969 [man holding oar while in umiak; water in background] slide #6612
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3605
May 1969 [man holding oar while in umiak; water in background] slide #6612
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.156.005
51-3; fishermen in skiff [man in rowboat, oars, likely near Saxman, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2014.023.062
(People in Boat)(three women seated in row boat with a man in background using oar)
Collection: B2014.023
B2015.008.005
(starting for Stetson Creek){man with oar standing in a skiff on shore of lake with large mountains in background}
Keywords: boat, lake, rowing
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.024.3599
May 1969 [four men in umiak, hunters, gun; oars; open water] slide #6606
Collection: B2017.024
B2015.007.69
[two Alaska Native boys in rowboat on river, both wearing driving caps and holding oars]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.008.661a
221 3 Harvard 1914 [view down fjord to glacier terminus boat oar in foreground]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fjord, Harvard Glacier, mountains, glaciers
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1882.6
(Bristol Bay fishing) [sailboat #51 underway in bay, two men at oars, buildings visible on shore. neg deteriorated]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.007.106
[large group of Alaska Native men in boat coming ashore, all raising boat oars, second boat behind at left]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.1391.2
Bristol Bay fishing boat. 2, Hewitt's, Anchorage, Alaska [two men at oars in sailboat numbered 51. copy neg]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.194.005
62-6 [wood boat on ground with wood structure in background; rope; boxes in right background; possibly oar; Saxman; February 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Scn.8.003
Scn 17806; Hubbard Glacier [face of glacier, man in plaid jacket and cap standing in wooden boat with Mercury outboard motor, oars]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1998.014.1.629
Frank Morgan photo "E48 Diomede Is from ship" [people in two boats traveling toward Diomede, shore, structures in background, motor, oars, tow rope; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1459.2
44. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Eskimo handicraft) [possibly grave marker, with overturned sled, two posts decorated with oars, pots, floats, and other materials, and a rack with three rifles]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.050.3
Eskimo in kiack, St. Michael. Drane [Alaska Native man wearing gut parka using oar in Yup'ik style kayak in harbor, buildings of St. Michael in background, circa 1903]
Keywords: transportation, boats
Collection: B1991.050
B2018.023.112a
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [men in boat with white flag and red crescent sail near shore; oars; men at shore with motorboat; beach; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.112b
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [verso of slide: men in boat with white flag and red crescent sail near shore; oars; men at shore with motorboat; beach; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2007.005.5.028
[stereo view of two men sitting in kayaks atop snow, possibly supported by a sled; oars; woven grass mats used for windbreak; snowshoe; Hiils Bros. can; tea pot; man on left appears to be operating a fuel stove (?); sea ice in distance]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1964.001.043
"Ho" for Klondike. Lake Bennet [sic].7001 [on verso:] Boats on Lake Bennett. Spring of 1898.[View of men on boats on Lake Bennett, Canada, with United States flag flying from third boat from left and men holding oars and poles to move boats. One man in photo may possibly be Frank Michaud. Photographer's numbers 7001 and 82.]
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban