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B2016.019.1.04e.05526.36
Moss and mud patterns on Turnagain Arm. [Anchorage - Turnagain Arm], c. 1986
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Turnagain Arm, Moss, Mud patterns
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.1.04e.05526.09
Moss and mud patterns on Turnagain Arm. [Anchorage - Turnagain Arm], c. 1986
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Turnagain Arm, Moss, Mud flats
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.1.04e.05526.19
Moss and mud patterns on Turnagain Arm. [Anchorage - Turnagain Arm], c. 1986
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Turnagain Arm, Moss, Mud flats
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.1.04e.05526.23
Moss and mud patterns on Turnagain Arm. [Anchorage - Turnagain Arm], c. 1986
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Turnagain Arm, Moss, Mud flats
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.5526.09
Moss and mud patterns on Turnagain Arm. Photographer's number 5526-09. c. 1986
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.5526.19
Moss and mud patterns on Turnagain Arm. Photographer's number 5526-19. c. 1986
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.5526.23
Moss and mud patterns on Turnagain Arm. Photographer's number 5526-23. c. 1986
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.5526.36
Moss and mud patterns on Turnagain Arm. Photographer's number 5526-36. c. 1986
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.3.17.08932.06
Glowing moss patterns at low tide, Turnagain Arm, [Anchorage - Turnagain Arm], c. 1991
Keywords: moss, low tide, turnagain arm, anchorage, southcentral, summer, scenic, Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography
Collection: B2016.019
B1989.016.2181.8
(Emard Property, Bedroom) [Anchorage home with bed, chairs, dressing table, patterned wallpaper. copy neg]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.966
L114 The "Gibson Girl," a snow pattern on Mount Eccles, Cordova, Alaska [copy neg; same as .965]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.005.85
[Young Indigenous Alaskan woman in spotted fur (likely reindeer) parka with geometric pattern near bottom hem]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young woman, Woman, Parka, Fur, Reindeer, Caribou, Geometric design, Pattern, Decorative, Clothing, Outerwear, Outside, Winter, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.965
L114 The "Gibson Girl" a snow pattern on Mt Eccles, Cordova, Alaska [copy neg; snow formation on mountainside]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.1059
Jan71P7 #16044 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing feathered head dress, parka, gloves with snowflake pattern, eyeglasses]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Dancing, Parka, Feather headdress
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2181.7
(Emard Property, Lounge) [Anchorage home with bed, recliner, television trays, patterned wallpaper, Sydney Laurence painting of Mount McKinley. copy neg]
Keywords: residences, houses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2208.22
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [room with draped closet, table, patterned wallpaper]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.1045
Jan71P7 #16030 Barrow [Inupiaq woman wearing parka with rose-pattern fabric and gloves dances in front of drummers, singers, men, who are also wearing parkas, fur trim]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Dancing, Drum, Drummers, Parka
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1060
Jan71P7 #16045 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing feathered head dress, parka, gloves with snowflake pattern dances in front of men, women, drummers, singers; artwork on display in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Dancing, Drum, Drummers, Feather headdress
Collection: B2017.024
B2015.008.312
Tractor ploughing 37 acres in 3 days. Note pattern, beginning with two dead furrows in centre and continuing around then in rag rug shape [view across plowed field, cow in foreground]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2208.12
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [room with chair, tables door, possibly heater in upper left corner, patterned wallpaper]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1985.027.2438
[from verso:] Eskimos - hunting; Polar bear; Sam Kimura Photography [boy reaching up to touch polar bear hide drying on wood planks next to other animal hides; parka; mitten may have "Eddie" knitted into pattern]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1989.016.2208.1
(Emard's House, interior, 3rd and E SE corner, taken for court trial, March 24, 1964) [small room with desk, three chairs, maps of Cook Inlet on wall, key rack, patterned wallpaper]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1997.003.124
[two women sit on rear bumper of an automobile; one holding a bottle and wearing a novelty pattern skirt or dress; the other wearing a dress and saddle shoes; interior wall in background, possibly inside a shed with dirt floor]
Collection: B1997.003
B1998.014.1.1544
S98 Diomede Island Eskimo soldier doing Native dance for Anchorage Rondezvous (G.I.) [soldier wearing gloves with fur cuffs, drummers, singers, skin drum, furs, mukluks with geometric patterns, stage, curtains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.634
162.4. Logan, 150 m. away, over Kennicott Glacier. 5.18.12, 6:30 P.M., from 15,000 ft.
Note crevasses [bird’s eye view down glacier, regular pattern of cracks down center of glacier]
Keywords: climbing, mountaineering, Mt Blackburn, glacier, crevasses, Wrangell Mountains, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.2154
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party, 2 children and adult" [child wearing apple-patterned shirt removes jacks game from package, boy wearing western-style shirt and possibly hearing aid plays harmonica; woman between chilldren]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.617
"E39 Kotzebue, children by sled, Feb 1948 postcard" [three children wearing parkas, fur, canvas, muklus, mittens, knit gloves with snowflake pattern, stand in snow in front of dogsled; possibly mitten on ground; child on right holds what appear to be balls made of fur in each hand; structures in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1972.046.157
[three Native women standing outdoors with young boy, one woman wearing print parka with short fur ruff, one wearing caribou parka with large ruff and U-shaped hem, one wearing fur parka with walrus tusk-pattern and geometric design on bottom hem, boy wearing fur parka and pants, village buildings in background, Seward Peninsula?]
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B1997.003.125
[two women and two men; women sit on rear bumper of an automobile; one holding a bottle and wearing a novelty pattern skirt or dress; the other wearing a dress and saddle shoes; one man wears aviator goggles on his head and leans against car; one squats next to one woman whose arm is draped over his shoulder; interior wall in background, possibly inside a shed with dirt floor]
Collection: B1997.003
B1998.014.1.562
E6 An Arctic family "Hooper Bay, 2 negs, 1 print"[woman in summer parka, kuspuk, fur-trim hood; mukluks, child in patterned kuspuk with fur ruff on hood, child in solid kuspuk, man in button-down shirt, trousers, mukluks; standing at entrance to shelter, fish or meat drying or racks, ladder on ground, water in background, same man as .554, .555, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley