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B1984.077.17.018
Palmer [watertower, buildings, trucks, road, puddle, water, reflection. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2015.008.560
Keeping cool [pigs wallowing in puddle at right, covered hay stacks in distance]
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.023.136
The Inn [Downtown scene, Whitehorse, YT, Canada, buildings, automobiles, puddle, clouds]
Collection: B2017.023
B2017.023.188
Juneau USO Club [man standing next to automobile, street, sidewalk, puddles, mountain in background]
Collection: B2017.023
B2017.024.3381
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; chldren playing on boardwalk; puddles; snow; structures; snowmachines; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.309.002
91-1 April 1943; Pan X; Nome [street scene with puddles, structures; automobiles; Polet sign]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.310.003
91-2 April 1943; Pan X; Nome [street scene with snow, puddles, people in mid-ground; structures]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.310.004
91-2 April 1943; Pan X; Nome [pickup truck driveing away; puddles on road; snow along road]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.311.005
91-3 Nome [April 1943; Pan X; structures and possible mining equipment; snow; puddles; clothesline at far right]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1966.010.10
4th of July Parade 1919, Anchorage. [two horses pull decorated wagon, dog drinks from puddle, people watching from windows and boardwalk]
Collection: B1966.010 CIHS Anderson
B1990.014.2018.1.309.001
91-1 April 1943; Pan X; Nome [street scene wtih puddles, automobiles; business buildings; people walking at right]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.72.9
[soldiers gathered around camp fire built in large puddle, one man warming his hands over cans suspended over fire]
Keywords: military, camping
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.3412
June 1970 [spring breakup scene; two children stand at door of structure; puddles; lumber; objects stored on rooftops; Northern Alaska]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.309.003
91-1 April 1943; Pan X; Nome [street scene wtih people walking along street, puddles; structures; blurry image]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.311.004
91-3 Nome [April 1943; Pan X; street scene with puddles; Polet sign, structures; people near buildings; waterfront at left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1996.011.342.neg
Draining lake at S. Art. [Dunlap wearing hip boots and holding shovel standing in large puddle on tundra near Staraya Artil rookery]
Collection: B1996.011 Dr_ Edward A_ Dunlap
B2017.024.3372
June 1971 [breakup scene; people walking on boardwalk; children; sled; snow; puddles; structures in background. one displaying a cross; snowshoes; ladders; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1169
May68P3 #01884 Bethel [Yup'ik people hauling wood on cart, wheelbarrow; parkas; dirt road; snow; puddles; storage tank and two-wheeled cart at far right]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Yup'ik, Bethel, Mamterilleq
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.1851
(T132 Valdez, Dock Street) [Street scene, gravel, puddles, businesses: Valdez Drug Co. Curios, Gilson’s Canteen Bar, Pinzon Bar, Burch’s Fountain Postcards Magazines; automobiles, trucks, men on boardwalks, woman walking, dog at right on boardwalk]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1647
T37 Anchorage, Alaska [Anchorage Hotel at corner of 4th Avenue and E Street; puddles on gravel streets, people, automobiles, Coca Cola delivery truck, Rexall Drugs, Beauty Salon, Kinik Arm and Kink in background, awnings, utility poles, suspended window cleaning platform]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.1026
June 70 P5, #15400 Barrow [woman pulling rope attaching objects to wooden sledge; child stands behind second sledge while another child reclines on it; one person stands looking at structure; possibly domicile with door ajar, parkas, moose antlers above doorway, possible seal poke at right on ground, snow, puddles, steel drums (containers) at left]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Sledge, Antlers, Moose antlers
Collection: B2017.024
B2013.007.007
This picture taken Sept. 30, 1911. My partner by my side and a mud puddle two feet deep in front. Jap Restaurant next to us. M.V.T. [Street scene showing log building under construction, wooden two-story building with sign “Shoes Repaired While You Wait,” walled tent with sign “Brunell and Tyler Painters Paper Hangers and Sign Writers,” and walled tent with sign “Restaurant, Bakery and Coffee House.” Two men outside Brunell & Tyler’s, and man and woman in aprons outside bakery, with two men in street clothes and a dog]
Collection: B2013.007
B1998.014.1.1642
T35 Brickley, Anchorage - Alaska (4th Ave. 1948 postcard 300 - 3 1 print; 2 negs) [street scene looking west from center of gravel street with puddles; people walking, automobiles, businesses: City Hotel, with Coca Cola advertisement, Mike’s Cocktail Bar, Matanuska Valley Bus Line Depot, North Star Liquor Store, Hotel Travler, Brass Rail Bar and Café, Machine Shop Gunsmithing, Lunch Room, Cleaners, Hotel Lane, Café, Pay ‘n Takit Meats Groceries, The Village Bar, Anchorage Checker Cab, Custom Leather Shop, Big Dipper, Anchorage Dairy, Liquor store, Union Steam Bath & Rooms, New York Sandwich Shop, Bar and Café, Schodde’s, Quality Grocery & Market Delicatessen, Grasser’s Hardware, Bus Terminal; Possibly unfinished 4th Avenue Theatre under construction in left distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley