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B1995.014.22.13
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.22.14
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.22.15
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.105.15
[soldier seated at camp site, with fire at left, tarped area in center, and tarped sleeping area hung between two trees]
Keywords: military, camping
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.23.10
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: boats, animals, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.23.11
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: boats, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.23.12
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: animals, transportation, boats
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.23.13
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: boats, animals, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.23.14
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: boats, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.23.15
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: boats, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.23.16
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: transportation, boats, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.23.17
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: boats, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.24.3
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: boats, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.24.4
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: boats, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.793
T22 [two small tents and tarp set up on rocky slope below overhanging rock with
striations, possibly Dora underneath tarp. has neg]
Keywords: tent, camp
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.793.t22
T22 [two small tents and tarp set up on rocky slope below overhanging rock with
striations, possibly Dora underneath tarp. has neg]
Keywords: tent, camping, camp, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.793.t22negcrop
T22 [two small tents and tarp set up on rocky slope below overhanging rock with
striations, possibly Dora underneath tarp. has neg]
Keywords: tent, camping, camp, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.014.109.1
[man sitting outside log cabin with tarped roof in birch grove]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.58.6
[camp or hunting blind, tarp stretch between pine and birch trees]
Keywords: camping
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.21.4
[portrait of dog sitting in front of wind break of tarp tied to fir trees]
Keywords: animals, camping
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.3447
December 1981 [winter; man adjusts tarp; people in distance; northern Alaska]
Collection: B2017.024
B1983.091.S3017.147
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [Baby walruses on snow and wood, edge of tarp]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.1059
#209. Palmer hay. Hewitt's Photo Shop [large stack of hay bales partially covered with tarp]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.023.031
[Four men at cook stove, eating, drinking, trees, box; tarp or tent with ropes in left background]
Collection: B2017.023
B1998.014.1.1490a
(S60 Army Scouts drying salmon for dog food) [fish drying racks, tarp cover; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.779
594 [base camp in rocky area, three men under tarp with stick poles. has neg. cf. .677]
Keywords: camp, tarp, camping
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.779.dk594
594 [base camp in rocky area, three men under tarp with stick poles. has neg. cf. .677]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountains, Harvard Glacier, glacier, tarp
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.779.dk594negcrop
594 [base camp in rocky area, three men under tarp with stick poles. has neg. cf. .677]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountains, Harvard Glacier, glacier, tarp
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.023.033
[five men at camp site, cook stove, hatchet, tarp in background, military insignia, Tech Corporal, waders]
Collection: B2017.023
B1995.014.58.7
[man dip netting from bow of large canoe, with tarp spread over pole covering boat interior, Yukon River]
Keywords: boats, fishing, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.77.12
[man dipnetting from river bank, canoe and small boat with tarp covering at right, bow of second boat in foreground, possibly Yukon River?]
Keywords: fishing, boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.381
B95 Seward Theater [theatre] ("Liberty") [Flamingo bar? Cordova Airlines offfice, pickup truck; platform and tarp suspended from utility lines]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2139
Prop. of Van Cleve Photography; Evanston, IL [boy uses adze to carve wood; camp stove; canvas tarps; duffle bag]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.14.5.Animals.24.014
Animals: reindeer. Reindeer team near Noatak, April 29, 1968. [reindeer, sled, tarp, man, child, grass, trees and snowy hillside in backgroun.]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Animals
B2014.016.2262
Mallard Springs, whenever weather permitted, the plane came out from Fairbanks [four men unloading airplane, possibly Cessna 180, engine covered with tarp]
Collection: B2014.016
B1998.014.1.1466
S43 An Aleutian Japanese soldier (1943) [soldier poses in winter coat, belt, hat, gloves, gaitors, rifle; automobile appears to be partially covered in a tarp; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1983.091.S3017.083
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [six baby walrus captured for San Diego zoo; walruses huddled on snow, wood and possibly entrails; steel barrels and tarps in background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1979.002.Album1.293
R31-5. Blacksmith shop [man standing next to log building under construction, with tarp on roof, tall birch or cottonwood in background, near Ship Creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1983.091.S3017.085
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [Man with six baby walrus captured for San Diego zoo; walruses huddled on wood and possibly a walrus hide; steel barrels and tarps in background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1979.002.Album1.288
R32-5. Ship Creek Camp [four men sitting on bench in clearing, two log buildings in background, one with tarped roof, tall birch or cottonwood behind buildings, railroad exploration, circa 1914. Original image blurred]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.291
M-4. Ship Creek. W. F. Milliken [horses in yard next to log building and tarp-covered frames of two additional buildings, pile of timber in foreground, tall birch or cottonwood in background, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.1319
P2 Part of a winter's catch - north of the Arctic Circle (A story of Alaska) [wolf and fox pelts hanging from wing and propeller of ski plane (possibly a Stinson), tarp over airplane nose, engine, outdoors, snow, structure in background; copy neg.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.Album1.299
R33-3. Barnyard at Ship Creek [two men posed in center near horses tied to log fence, frame for walled tent at left, log building with tarped roof at right, tall birch or cottonwood in background, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.1296.dk554
554 [base camp in rocky area, three people under tarp with stick poles, probably
George at left, G.A. Rabehl in center, Dora at right, Harvard Glacier? Cf. .677, .775]
[.771] – 555 [has print]
[.772] – 556 [has print]
Keywords: camp, tarp, Dora
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1296.dk554crop
554 [base camp in rocky area, three people under tarp with stick poles, probably
George at left, G.A. Rabehl in center, Dora at right, Harvard Glacier? Cf. .677, .775]
[.771] – 555 [has print]
[.772] – 556 [has print]
Keywords: camp, tarp, Dora
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.677
226.11 [base camp on rocky slope, three men under tarp with stick poles, small tent in center background, two men holding pots over camp fire, one man looking through pack, glacier in distance. cf. .779, .1296]
Keywords: camp, cooking, camping, tarp, tent
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.677a
226.11 [base camp on rocky slope, three men under tarp with stick poles, small tent in
center background, two men holding pots over camp fire, one man looking through pack,
glacier in distance. cf. .779, .1296]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, mountaineering, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1997.003.084
[two men on boat: one in cook's apron and cap holding salmon; man in street clothes, cap, squatting atop tarp holding rope with fish; sign: "inspected U.S. No. 1, Alaska grade potatoes, L.B. Garnett Co, Seattle, Wash," shore in background; flag at upper right]
Collection: B1997.003