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B2022.005.22
[Two Indigenous Alaskan men at bow of beached skin boat; seal carcasses in boat]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Men, Boat, Skin boat, Transportation, Seal, Carcass, Harvest, Hunter, Hunters, Bow, Watercraft, Winter, Snow, Parka, Oar, Paddle, Equipment
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1995.014.73.5
[portrait of soldier wearing parka with fur ruff standing outdoors in winter]
Keywords: military, clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.22.005
5-6 Dock conference [men gathered talking on dock outside Tongass Trading Company; two wood boats at left; lumber; water' mountains; Ketchikan, 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2014.012.68
[view of village from water, with Russian Orthodox church at center, Unalaska?]
Keywords: churches, religion
Collection: B2014.012
B1990.014.2018.1.22.006
5-6 Jack Bailey [man in profile wearing driving cap in front of Tongass Trading Company sign; Ketchikan, 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1101
N10 Cushman St., Fairbanks, Alaska (1946 postcard) [copy neg; same as .1100]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.560
E5 Eskimo woman in bird parka "1938, 2 negs, 1 print" [structure, possibly house, in background, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2210.35
E-52 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [woman in fur-trimmed parka and mukluks, standing outdoors]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.3185
[bird’s eye view of village, crosses and spirit houses in cemetery in foreground. Cf. .3184]
Collection: B1995.010
B2009.037.021
.21 – [interior of barracks (possibly Quonset hut), close-up of military radio and pinup photos around it]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B1998.014.1.2117
W17 Winter in Alaska; photo by Vern Brickley "(log house)" [copy neg; log cabin with stone chimney, snow, utility lines and additional structures in right background; Chugach Mountains in distance: located at Third and Eagle Street in Anchorage]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2210.52
E-75 (Queen Ruthie Johnson and attendants) [woman in evening dress, cape, and tiara, holding wand, standing on building steps with five young women in printed dresses, Eklutna? 1937?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.2106
King Island, copyright 1986 [close up of man wearing fur parka]
Collection: B2017.024
B1979.002.Album1.292
R30-5. Ship Creek [dog team pulling sled over bare ground, one man in basket and another on runners, walled tent in center background, wagon at left, tall birch or cottonwood at right, Cook Inlet in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914. Original print torn]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2210.24
E-41 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2142.10
P-538C, 9/22/36 (Mr. Jacobs) [portrait of man, Matanuska Colony?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.53
E-57 (Mrs. King) [portrait of woman standing outdoors, wearing headscarf, leather gloves, boots]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.552
Newtok family 1950s [simlar to .538]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2002.018.24
South Seas Nite Club, owner Fred Bearden - downstairs from Berts Drug Store, corner 4th & F. [circa 1946] 5 x 7 negative
Collection: B2002.018 FIC
B1998.014.1.596a
E29 Army rescue instructor builds snow house, Nome, Alaska "(Jim Gale)" [same as .595, copy neg. neg has tape on right slide, 2nd neg was found taped to this one. Gave them "a" and "b" designations]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2014.012.89
[man and three children on sled with dog team stopped on ice]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2014.012
B1998.014.1.732
"K4 Grant Pearson with dog salmon" man standing on upper deck of log and plank structure, bundles of dried chum salmon, cache, ladder, McKinley park ranger; neg has drops or blotches that appear in image]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2210.47
E-69 (Queen Ruthie Johnson) [woman in evening dress, cape, and tiara, holding wand, Eklutna? 1937?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.007.109
[Alaska Native family next to wood-plank building, all wearing Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B2018.023.031a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [family, women, man, children, kuspuks, parka, kuspuks, canvas wall tents, clothesline, washtub, washboard, buckets; likely on beach; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.031b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: family, women, man, children, kuspuks, parka, kuspuks, canvas wall tents, clothesline, washtub, washboard, buckets; likely on beach; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1997.003.142
[Hand in center of image; man sitting on rocks in right midground; man at left; quarry scene]
Collection: B1997.003
B1991.011.558
Newtok, S. Western; Mrs. Mark Lincoln [woman wearing fur parka holds object in her right hand; calendar from The Seattle Fur Exchange displaying January 1958]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2015.007.149
[group portrait of Alaska Native family posed next to tent on tundra, elder woman wearing fur parka with walrus tusk gussets, elder man wearing Western style clothing and suspenders, young man wearing Western style clothing, young woman wearing kuspuk with fur trim, child wearing Western style clothing, can of Stanavo fuel on grass at left, laundry on clothesline at right, coffee cup on wooden box, boat on shoreline of water in background]
Keywords: transportation, camps, families, clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B1991.011.559
Newtok; Mrs. Mark Lincoln [woman sitting inside structure; likely January 1958 ; see .558]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.442
B140 McKinley Bldg, new Anchorage land mark [view looking east on Fourth Avenue, Liquor store on left, Hamm's Beer, Schlitz signs; two people walking near store; houses, automobiles; mountains in the distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1972.046.131
712.Teams starting from Dyea for canyon, Chilkoot Ry. & T. Co., April 24, 99. E. A. Hegg [several horse-drawn wagons stopped outside three-story wood-frame building in Dyea, water visible in distance]
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble