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B2014.023.005
(Syd with car and golf clubs)[man standing beside car with golf clubs]
Keywords: recreation, golf, automobile
Collection: B2014.023
B1995.014.117.3
[apples wrapped in paper for shipment, box with label "X-L-Ent Washington Apples" at upper left]
Keywords: food
Collection: B1995.014
B2018.025.013
[Sydney Laurence painting of cache, name “Cameron, S-[illegible]” added to negative, tinted]
Collection: B2018.025
B1973.079.25
[U.S Army officer and woman sitting on front steps to row house at Fort St. Michael]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1999.014.2052a
(Snowmobiles_Barrow "Roaring Boring Alice")[man in a white parka, standing in front of a snow machine and numerous oil drums on the tundra, no snow visible]
Keywords: snow machine, snow mobile, tundra, Barrow
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1999.014.2052b
(Snowmobiles_Barrow "Roaring Boring Alice")[man in a white parka, standing in front of a snow machine and numerous oil drums on the tundra, no snow visible]
Keywords: snow machine, snow mobile, tundra, house, parka
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1999.014.236
(Alaska Territorial Guard)[boys and young men shouldering rifles standing at attention]
Keywords: gun, soldiers, military
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1999.014.237
(Alaska Territorial Guard)[Men shouldering rifles marching in formation]
Keywords: gun, soldiers, military
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1999.014.238
(Alaska Territorial Guard)[Men shouldering rifles marching in formation]
Keywords: gun, soldiers, military
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1999.014.239
(Alaska Territorial Guard)[boys and young men shouldering rifles standing at attention]
Keywords: gun, soldiers, military
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1999.014.241
(Alaska Territorial Guard)[Men shouldering rifles marching in formation)
Keywords: soldiers, gun, military
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1999.014.243
(Alaska Territorial Guard)[Men shouldering rifles marching in formation)
Keywords: gun, military, soldiers
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1995.014.111.2
[man with axe standing on log, machinery and buildings in background, mining operation, Willow Creek?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.111.3
[man with axe debarking log, machinery and buildings in background, mining operation, Willow Creek?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.111.4
[man with gold pan standing in sluice box, mining operation, Willow Creek?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.56.6
Mrs. Wilson [Native woman wearing print parka with fur ruff and mukluks standing outdoors in winter, buildings in background. Same woman identified as "preacher's wife" in B2012.016.180]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1995.014
b1969.015.1.51
[Two men, maybe Mr. Thiel, right.] 2.5 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1969.015 Fred Winter
B1970.019.329
Lester P Cooliss (sp.?) on top of mountain about 20 miles from Anchorage. June 8/24 Trip to foot hills
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1995.014.50.2
[soldier looking through large telescope or spotting aid on shore, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.54.9
[soldier posed on rock outcropping, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation, 1943-44]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.62.9
[two men wearing snowshoes holding moose head next to creek in winter]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1995.014
B1999.014.1932
(Alaska Territorial Guard)[Men shouldering rifles marching in formation]
Keywords: soldiers, gun, military
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1999.014.235
(Alaska Territorial Guard)[Men shouldering rifles marching in formation]
Keywords: gun, soldiers, military
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B1973.079.89
[dogs pulling sled over snow with several men in background watching on]
Keywords: dogs, sled, winter
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1995.014.61.7
[soldiers wearing snowshoes and backpack stopped next to creek, McKinley rescue squad operation? Photographer's shadow in foreground]
Keywords: military, mountaineering, footwear, photography
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.487
Old dresser as sideboard [house interior, dining room, framed portrait of William Williams Keen above sideboard]
Collection: B2015.008
B2019.003.065
“Scenes on Cook’s Inlet” [woman sitting on rock outcropping along shoreline at low tide] [Dena'ina Elnena, Tikahtnu]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Tikahtnu, Cook's Inlet, Cooks Inlet, Cook Inlet, Inlet, Waterway, Woman, Rock, Outcropping, Rocky, Boulder, Shoreline, Low tide
Collection: B2019.003
B1970.019.546
"Fern mine is about 20 miles from Wasilla in Willow Creek district. Aug 14/25 Fern gold Mining Co. Cyanide plant on right; mill next, mine in upper left corner. Dull weather. 30 sec. 45 opening 7/18/25" [from verso] [mountains, valley, structures in center of image.]
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1989.016.1959.2
(2 Moose fighting) [copy neg of a print in wood frame]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.111.5
[soldier in parka with fur ruff aiming rifle outdoors in winter]
Keywords: military, arms
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.121.5
F-E Co., Fairbanks, 1942 [drilling apparatus, Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.1986.tagging02
Polar bear survey -- tagging team works on drugged bears - Chukchi.
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.1519.1
(Nat Brown's airplane in lake, Sasern pilot, Waco plane) [airplane in ice, buildings visible behind. Nat Browne aircraft accident, probably Lake Spenard, early 1930s. cf. Mills & Phillips, Sourdough Sky, p. 65. With pilot Murrell Sasseen?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.67.5
[several men with half-track vehicle hauling supplies outside smalll cabin]
Keywords: residences, transportation, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.72.8
[soldiers on snowshoes hiking in mountainous area]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1451
S37 Popular Aleutian landmarks - theatres (4 in 1 pic) [structures, "Downtown" theater; service men lined up outside theater; copy neg with four images]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2252
"moose" [winter scene of moose standing in snow among birches]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley