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B1989.016.1099.2
P-150. Hewitt's [work table and tools in workshop at Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.017.1993.04.01
Pick the Legislature's preferred tool for examining citizen applicants to the ethics panel
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2017.024.1320
Diomede, Feb 1962 [man with ice fising tools, snow, structures in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.1567.3
P-148. Hewitt's (Early Scenes, Palmer) [work bench with tools in shop, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1972.046.142
(Klondike Miner){Miner standing outside of his cabin wearing a large backpack with a variety of mining tools strapped to the pack}
Keywords: mining, miner, gear, sourdough
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B2009.017.nodate.howtowoman
[caricature of woman holding ‘How-to’ book and home repair tools. Pencil study on verso for ‘Real estate, do it yourself boom’]
Collection: B2009.017
B2019.003.126
Native method of splitting logs [three men using hand tools to cut timber on rack in wooded area]
Collection: B2019.003
B2019.003.127
Native method of splitting logs [three men using hand tools to cut timber on rack in wooded area]
Collection: B2019.003
B2008.013.77
[men butchering whale at commercial whaling station, carcass on dock, men using cutting tools, inlet and mountains in background]
Collection: B2008.013
B1989.016.1099.1
The Colony's Workshop. P-149, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [five men standing in shop with equipment and tools, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1013
Horse barn, with garage door. Behind, part of long tool shed [fire-damaged building
next to barn, May 1931. Cf. .532]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.630
D-48. Repairing ivory sled runners. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Solomon, Alaska) [Alaska Native man in shop using tools]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.636
E53 A hunting party returns to Diomede Island, Frank Morgan photo [boats, sea ice, seals, hunting tools, dogs, water, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2369
Kotzebue June 1967 [woman wearing parka with baby in hood sits in front of wood structure; metal drums; tools hanging on wall of structure; similar to .2272]
Collection: B2017.024
B2015.008.527
After fire. Horse barn, 1 manure shed, long tool shed. House in distance [damaged buildings in foreground, barn in distance. Print damaged along one edge]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.2448
"Flash tests, men in shop; Nov 1943" [man wearing coveralls sits on stool and leans against table holding disc-shaped object; tools; #10 inscribed on neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.003.5
Construction on W[hite] P[ass] & Y[ukon] R.R. at Porcupine Hill. [photo by H. G. Barley, image #112, with two horse teams and men with hand tools in railroad cut]
Collection: B2006.003
B1979.002.2563
Cantwell Section tool house, l to r: Jake Tansy, Lucille Tyone, Alice Norton, John Nicklie, Pete Tyone, Yetta Stickivan, Marie Stickivan, Oley Nicklie, 1948
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.764
"L10 McKinley Park ranger's cabin, 1946 postcard" [log cabin, open door, stovepipe, log cache, ladder, snow, spruce trees, tools to right of cabin door, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.588
E27 King Island craftsmen at work, photo by Frank Morgan "1948 postcard" [three men inside shelter, leather, skin wall coverings, ropes, tools, metal fuel drum, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.111.003
40-6; Mother reading with Fritzie [child on woman's lap; woman holding book; books stored inside built-in bookshelves; fireplace tools at left; Feb 21-March 1, 1940; Seattle, Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.111.003
40-6; Mother reading with Fritzie [child on woman's lap; woman holding book; books stored inside built-in bookshelves; fireplace tools at left; Feb 21-March 1, 1940; Seattle, Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.111.004
40-6; Mother reading with Fritzie [child on woman's lap; woman holding book; books stored inside built-in bookshelves; fireplace tools at left; Feb 21-March 1, 1940; Seattle, Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.111.004
40-6; Mother reading with Fritzie [child on woman's lap; woman holding book; books stored inside built-in bookshelves; fireplace tools at left; Feb 21-March 1, 1940; Seattle, Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1071
PS-5 Sluicing for gold on the beach at Nome, Alaska. H.H. Hilscher photo (M15 gold mining on the beach at Nome, Alaska; sluicing gold) [man in water at shore, wheelbarrow, bucket, tools; copy neg.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2007.005.5.083
[stereo views of young boy holding what appears to be an ax and adz two-headed tool on which a juvenile bird, possibly and owl, is perched; woven grass mats; possibly an umiak suspended in background; fur parka may have feathers on sleeves]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2007.005.4.027
"ASC project #!6" [two men sittling in kayaks in tall grass; animal pelts stretched on wooden racks and placed atop kayaks; tools with long handles support woven grass mats in background; metal pans at right]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2014.016.1899
Kotzebue, visiting Little Diomed Eskimo showing ivory carving, 18 months service in World War II [Alaska Native man in military uniform sitting under umiak and using chin drill to carve ivory, open box of tools at his feet]
Keywords: clothing, military, carving, boats, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2014.016
B1979.001.087
Driving the first spike, April 29, 1915. [caption attached to image:] Driving the first spike on the Government railroad at Anchorage on April 29, 1915. Participants in the event have not been identified. [from verso:] Miss Martha White of Ladd Station near Tyonic, 19 years old. [men observe while woman prepares to swing spike driver tool]
Collection: B1979.001 AHFAM FIC