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B1984.077.17.014
[gravel road, buildings, mountains and clouds in distance, snow on peaks. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2017.023.132
[interior, woman with back to camera; women and men in background, windows, open window]
Collection: B2017.023
B2017.024.3377
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play on boardwalk next to dog sled, snowmachine, and structure; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.308.004
90-6 Nome [view looking over sea ice toward Nome; April 1943]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.30.006
12-2 heading halibut [men working at fish processing tables as boy and man look on; knives, boxes; Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.30.006
12-2 heading halibut [men working at fish processing tables as boy and man look on; knives, boxes; Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.311.001
91-3 Nome [April 1943; Pan X; man sitting on planks in front of open door uses a hand planer; wood shavings; dog on chain; snow in background; hand saw and bucket at left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1966.010.06
Big Bertha is driven through Anchorage during the 4th of July parade. The auto, draped in banners & a flag, carried 2 solders & the harmless cannon, entitles "Big Bertha, Our Captured Trophy." Anchorage 1919. [dirt streets, spectators in windows and on boardwalks]
Collection: B1966.010 CIHS Anderson
B1990.014.2018.1.308.003
90-6 Nome [man wearing military uniform poses with uplifted sea ice; goggles; April 1943]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.024.3406
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; men and woman on boardwalks in front of Savoonga Native Store; man carrying gasoline can]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.308.005
90-6 Nome [view of sea ice formations; April 1943]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.310.006
91-2 April 1943; Pan X; Nome [man sitting on planks uses a hand planer; wood shavings; snow in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1996.011.340.neg
Spring at Garden Cove [Arctic fox standing on rock outcropping on tundra]
Collection: B1996.011 Dr_ Edward A_ Dunlap
B2017.024.3365
June 1971 [girl standing in front of structures, one possibly underground could be the new Arctic food freezer plant shown in .3366]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1157
Alaska - Eskimo kids play in Barrow street in summer, 1986 [1961?; two Inupiat children, one wearing torn parka; structure in distance]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Children
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.1848
(T131 Valdez) [Valdez Gospel Chapel, church; sidewalk, steps, broom, automobiles, structures, gravel road]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1643
T35 Brickley, Anchorage - Alaska (1948 postcard, 300 - 3) [similar to .1642]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.023.313
[Wellenstein sitting on log on lakeshore in winter, mountains in background]
Collection: B2017.023
B2013.005.6
[Thi]s box is the furring pen feed box, we have three in each pen then troughs etc and a feed house in one (as an experiment.) These boxes keep seagulls out and in fly time we darken the holes with canvas. I had a cap on in this picture but I look furry. I can go sit in [bull?] pen and mink will climb all over me clear on my head. I give lots of them a bite of one piece of meat or fish, holding it while they each taste. They don’t snap at all. [woman with feed pot next to small wooden pen]
Keywords: fur farming, Anchorage
Collection: B2013.005
B1998.014.1.1639
T34 Palmer, Alaska [view possibly taken from a rooftop (see image .1641) across gravel road and railroad tracks; watertower, possible gas sation at left; railroad siding with possibly boxcars and platform; structures in distance; automobles in left foreground, including one in disrepair]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley