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B1984.077.8.025
[Bear at trash barrel, stove, trash on ground. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.8.001
[metal barrels, trash, cardboard box, bird on trash, trees, road in background.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.8.004
[View looking out window, trash barrels, bird in trash, "Reliance Coffee" cardboard box.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.8.014
[Bear digging in trash barrels, view from inside, mountain in distance.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.8.023
[A bear feeds on garbage, trash barrels, stove. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2022.005.196
[Boy in trash can collecting glass bottles; child and building in background]
Keywords: Boy, Child, Children, Trash, Trash can, Collecting, Bottle, Glass bottle, Running, Runner, Building
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1984.077.8.022
[Bears feeding on garbage, trash barrels, road, trees. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.8.024
[Bears feeding on garbage, trash barrels, view from window. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1990.014.2018.1.196.002
63-2, seagulls, trash floating on water; February 1941; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1984.077.8.021
[Bears feeding on garbage, trash berrels, view through window, Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2019.007.271
Kokhanok, May 16, 1994; boy standing outside open door; trash can at right]
Collection: B2019.007
B1984.077.8.018
[Bears in left mid-ground, trash in foreground, roof and trees in background. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.8.026
[Bears walking away, two trash barrels, viewed through window. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.8.015
[Bears with trash, viewed through window, mountain in distance. Possible double exposure? Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.8.019
[view out window, bear feeding on garbage, trash barrels, stove? at far left, road, trees in distance. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2017.024.3395
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; two children stand in doorway to structure; balloon; trash cans; objectsstored on roof; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B2022.005.144
[Two Indigenous Alaskan women playfully posing with trash cans; two women in (likely Civil Air Patrol) unforms nearby; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Women, Play, Playfully, Fun, Pose, Trash can, Uniform, Clothing, CAP, C.A.P., Civil Air Patrol, Buildings
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2019.007.343
Nondalton, May 8, 1992 [two children riding one bicycle on gravel road; pickup truck, structures, laundry hanging on clothesline; water; trash can and bags in background]
Collection: B2019.007
B1998.014.1.1279
O80 Lake Spanard [sic] - near Anchorage. (Lake Spenard swimming) [summer scene, people in water, children, adults, shore, floating swimming platform, inner tubes; log structure at left; bicycle, automobile; trash on beach; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.194
(Portage Glacier; 25 June 1961) (people, automobiles in parking lot near lake, icebergs, woman with camera standing next to Dodge station wagon with California plate SYN838; luggage carrier; Rambler with Alaska plate 76277; Oldsmobile with Alaska plate 80039 backed toward lake with trunk open; trash can near lake]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Cat.2.2
(Catastrophe-Disasters, Accidents, Faulty Construction)(September 1, 1953)(Geo Allan)(9th and Gambel Nuisance next door)
Keywords: trash, junk yard
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.2.3
(Catastrophe-Disasters, Accidents, Faulty Construction)(September 1, 1953)(Geo Allan)(9th and Gambel Nuisance next door)
Keywords: trash, junk yard
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat