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B2015.008.1212
Above Guayaquil, native huts, Ecuador [traditional dwellings on riverbank]
Collection: B2015.008
B2013.075.090
Tanana #2, Kaktovik [puppies on steps of dwelling; washtub on ground, 1966]
Collection: B2013.075
B2015.008.1211
12. Ecuador, Nov. 1908. Near Guayaquil [traditional dwelling on riverbank, as seen from water]
Collection: B2015.008
B2000.017.014
Point Hope, 1972 [same dwelling as in .13, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2013.075.092
Tanana #2, Kaktovik [dwelling mostly buried in snow, anlers on roof, ladder, thermometer, pipe venting, 1966]
Collection: B2013.075
B1989.016.2141.6
D-6 [man and woman in fur parkas standing outside dwelling made of snow blocks, sled visible at right]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.075.132
Tanana #1 Koyukuk [dwellings, man working on sled near lower right of image, possibly landing strip, 1966]
Collection: B2013.075
B1989.016.2141.72
(D-92?) [man standing in entrance to dwelling completely buried in snow, hand out to offer something to a dog sitting nearby]
Keywords: houses, residences, animals, winter
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2140.8
[woman in fur parka and mukluks standing outside sod house, wash basin on ground, second dwelling or cache in background, mountains in distance]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.61
D-80 [woman in printed parka with fur trim standing in doorway to traditional dwelling, with whale bones as supports, entrance mostly buried in snow]
Keywords: residences, houses, villages
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2008.005.449
Ft. Yukon, Arctic Circle, native dwelling. Notice fish drying on left of house. On the bank of the Yukon River. [girl next to log cabin]
Collection: B2008.005
B1989.016.2141.8
D-8. A spring day north of Arctic Circle, Noatak, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [snow, dwellings, and drying racks, with mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.537
"Playing cards - a favorite pastime Newtok; 11/66" [a woman plays solitaire while another woman holding a baby stands nearby; interior of dwelling; possibly bunks in background]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.754
L4 Matanuska Valley farm "1946 postcard, (neg & print)" [hayfield, haystacks in foreground, structures, barn, dwelling, windmill in midground, mountains, clouds in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1991.011.556
Newtok; Nick Tom family; 1957 [women, man, and infant pose inside dwelling; left to right: unidentified woman, Nick, Pauline, Gloria Ann (infant) Tom]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1973.096.21
Plate 699_The Village Hooper Bay_From Copyright Photograph1928 by E S Curtis_Photogravure Suffolk Eng Co Cambridge, Mass [A view of the village of Hooper Bay including beached kayaks and dwellings]
Collection: B1973.096
B1991.011.538
Newtok; split oil barrels on outside of house to protect weathering of the frame dwelling; 11/66 [man, woman, and infant pose in front of metal-clad structure; parka; seal fur infant parka]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2005.013.128
C.G. & F.P. & Eskimo sod house, Hooper Bay, 7-1951 [Clarence and another white man standing with Alaska Native family outside wood dwelling with sod roof]
Collection: B2005.013
B1991.011.537
"Playing cards - a favorite pastime Newtok; 11/66" [a woman plays solitaire while another woman holding a baby stands nearby; interior of dwelling; possibly bunks in background; identified in 2019 as Agnes Tommy (holding infant) and Josephine Asuluk]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2014.019.102
Mud-whalebone house, L. Alexander & Native children, Pt. Hope, 1947 [group portrait of five children wearing print parkas with fur trim, two older women in fur parkas outside semi-subterranean dwelling]
Keywords: residences, clothing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2014.019
B1979.002.Album1.52
Old dwelling near Warehouse A, Seward, Alaska, A.N. Ry. Eugene Underwood [two-story wood-frame building on pilings on shore of Resuurection Bay near Alaska Northern Railway yard, mountains in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: residences, houses
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.1357
PM1 Matanuska Valley, covering 1,000 square miles, is Alaska's best developed farming country. In the background is a section of the sheltering Chugach Mountain Range (Pioneer Peak, Palmer) [scenic view, agriculture, fields, haystacks, structures, dwellings, barn in distance; possible greenhouse, fences.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.793
"L31 Experimental Farm, Tanana Valley; 1946 postcard" [filed in foreground, agricultural buildings, barn, farm house, dwellings, structures, farm equipment at far edge of field, roadway, possible railroad crossing sign, haystack, small log cabin, fences, enclosures, automobile inside garage; right portion of image has shadow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley