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B2019.003.088
Government medical boat [U.S. Bureau of Education Medical Service riverboat Martha Angeline at dock, people visible on decks and in pilothouse]
Collection: B2019.003
B1964.001.078
Landahl's Emporium Dawson Furs of the Yukon-Dawson, Y.T.
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B2015.008.646
180.3. Leaving Dawson, 8.8.12 [view from ship of large crowd gathered on dock next to
building]
Keywords: Dawson, dock, transportation
Collection: B2015.008
B2018.007.10
[paddle steamer Alice and Alaska Railroad barge No. 201 approaching Nenana dock, men standing on barge, man on dock at left]
Collection: B2018.007
AEC.G1728
Looking south from Mile 285, March 6, 1921. A.E.C. G-1728, H.G. Kaiser [winter scene of construction of Hurricane Gulch Bridge on Alaska Railroad]
Keywords: transportation, construction
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B2019.003.087
Going berry picking [three women standing in skiff docked alongside riverboat, two children standing on riverboat]
Collection: B2019.003
B2018.007.18
[view down railroad tracks to Fairbanks depot, Locomotive No. 1 display at right, Consumer’s Co-op in right background, Melody Inn and West Coast Grocery at left]
Collection: B2018.007
B2000.014.2
(man and woman with two children by tower)
Keywords: native alaskan, winter
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2000.014.249
(249)( Louden from Steamer Sarah, July 2 1914)[ small community along a the banks of a river]
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2000.014.255
(255)(Yukokakat, fishing camp Steamer Sarah, July 2 1914)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2015.008.576
Twin lambs in pasture. House and barns in distance [ewe sheep with lambs in field]
Collection: B2015.008
B2018.007.17
[bird’s eye view of Fairbanks taken from Chena River Bridge, with railroad depot in center background, automobiles on street near Locomotive No. 1 display, Samson Hardware Company, Glenn Carrington & Co., Melody Inn, and West Coast Grocery at left]
Collection: B2018.007
B1989.016.315
57. Alaska Rainbow Trout. Weight 7 pounds. Length 24 1/2 inches. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [still life with creel. neg damaged]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.009a.reindeer
2004. Three Eskimo beauties and their sled reindeer.
Collection: B1994.009 Ray / B1994_009a
B2000.014.250
(250)(Louden further up criven than 249, July 2, 1914)[small frontier community on the banks of a large river]
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2000.014.256
(256)(Yukokatat, David Lewis Trading Post, Steamer Sarah July 2 1914)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2000.014.252
(252)(Yukokakat from Steamer Sarah, Lower Village July 2 1914)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2018.006.6
[White Pass & Yukon Route locomotive and car on track in yard, possibly locomotive#7]
Collection: B2018.006
B2018.007.1
[Alaska Railroad train at Nenana depot, passenger car 1332 at left, men on platform at right]
Collection: B2018.007
B1972.027.181
Fairbanks, Alaska. 1905 [Tanana Valley Railroad]
Collection: B1972.027 Laurence Tyler Collection
B1990.014.004.35185
Corner of 4th Ave at C Str during August of 1950. Photographer's number 35185
Keywords: Anchorage, businesses, roads
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2000.013A.s8.031
[from verso] "baby; Maggie Tom, Newtok, 1978" [man sits with baby on his lap]
Collection: B2000.013A
B2018.006.7
[view down dock to White Pass & Yukon Routetrain with freight cars, Skagway
Collection: B2018.006
B1979.002.4880
(Cronin #6 Nenana River Canyon 1919)
Keywords: river, mountains
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1995.014.114.15
[woman wearing headscarf seated inside drying rack cleaning salmon, two Alaska Native children wearing bib overalls playing at left, Russian Mission]
Keywords: fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1265
O72 Totem at Ketchikan [lower portion of Lincoln Pole, Saxman Totem Park; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.006.5
[White Pass & Yukon Route cars on trackleading down street, Skagway]
Collection: B2018.006
B1995.014.56.16
Oscar and Teresa, Riley's kids [small child wearing Western-style clothing and skin boots holding beater with batter, young girl, Theodora Riley, in doorway of log cabin in background, container from Blue Ribbon Eggs at left, late 1930s]
Keywords: clothing, footwear, food, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B2018.023.078a
[steamships the Dawson and the White Horse docked on a river, likely the Yukon River; people on decks and moving freight; stern wheelers; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2017.021.17
Winter dumps on Little Creek, Nome, Alaska, Apr. 22nd, 1906. 4722, copyright by Nowell, 1906 [distant view of mining operations]
Collection: B2017.021
B2015.008.644
173.3. Passing Alaska-Yukon boundary post 30 m. below head of White River, 6.14
[view across low brush in flat, horses standing at right near wooden marker. Print cropped,
with loss of caption]
Keywords: horses
Collection: B2015.008
B2018.023.078b
[verso of slide: steamships the Dawson and the White Horse docked on a river, likely the Yukon River; people on decks and moving freight; stern wheelers; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.079a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [steamship traveling through ice floes; people on deck and in rigging; hand colored; debris is encased in the slide]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.079b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: steamship traveling through ice floes; people on deck and in rigging; hand colored; debris is encased in the slide]
Collection: B2018.023