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B1995.014.100.12
[Quonset hut buried in snow, mountains in distance, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.94.3
Army drying fish for dogs [soldiers unloading carts full of processed fish and hanging them on drying rack, automobile parked at right, water in distance]
Keywords: military, animals, fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.4845
{two men standing on the steps outside the Crystal Steam Bath building}
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1984.077.21.022
[railroad tracks, water tank?, men on tracks, gravel? on tracks, train, buildings]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.22.001
[Depot? antlers,two men in midground, buildings in background, tower.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1995.014.100.4
[partially subterranean Quonset huts, mountains in distance, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.8.8
The funeral of a young boy who went out trapping and presumably died of hypothermia. The priest's name was [Vasily] Changsak. [Russian Mission, start of procession]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B2009.017.1993.06.19
“Shetland Ponyman of the Apocalypse” ©1993 Saturday June 19, 1993 [skeleton riding horse carrying Micro Nukes]
Keywords: politics
Collection: B2009.017
B2010.023.614a
(Fig 104)(boy in center wears an old style cap worn by Nunivak men and boys. The man was the carpenter building the first school at Mekoryuk in 1959)(Van, Stone James W Nunivak Island Eskimo Technology and material Culture)
Collection: B2010.023
B90.14.5.EQ.6.15
Anchorage Sand and Gravel
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_6
B1995.014.105.5
[abandoned railroad tracks, Russian Mission to Kuskokwim?]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.96.6
[two soldiers on bank of river, one holding stick, mountains in distance]
Keywords: fishing, military, hiking
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.97.13
[pigs in yard in winter, Quonset huts and water in background, Adak?]
Keywords: military, animal husbandry, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1996.x.001a
Panoramic Photograph of Downtown Anchorage 1948, looking across Knik Arm towards Pt. Mckinzie and Mt. Susitna. Printed by Ken Wray's Print Shop. INC.
Keywords: Panoramic, photograph; Anchorage; 1948, Kinik Arm, Pt Mckinzie,
Collection: B1996.x_001
B1997.003.006
[two men reclined inside building; one on cot, one on floor, shelves]
Collection: B1997.003
B1997.003.007
[man standing on platform of Bucyrus Erie mining equipment, shovel, watch on fob, building in distance]
Collection: B1997.003
B1997.003.052
[men standing on beam, suspended by drag line; hills in distance]
Collection: B1997.003
B2010.023.613a
(fig 103)(Elderly man wearing squirrel skin parka and sealskin pants 1937)
Keywords: alaska native
Collection: B2010.023
B1984.077.18.019
Ketchikan Packing Co. [waterfront view from porch?, buildings, water, island, boat.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.18.020
Talbot & Spaulding [Ketchikan waterfront view, buildings, ship, boats, islands in distance.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.969
(Churches at Palmer, Presbyterian Church of 1000 Logs) [church in log building]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5785
[view down track in winter, possibly coaling chute at left. Has neg dated 5/27/46]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.8.7
The funeral of a young boy who went out trapping and presumably died of hypothermia. The priest's name was [Vasily] Changsak. [Russian Mission, start of procession]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.93.14
[Russian Mission cemetery in spring, river in background]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.93.15
[Russian Mission cemetery and church in spring]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.93.16
[Russian Mission cemetery and church in spring]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.023.166
[Two servicemen walking; Wally? on left, sailor on right, downtown in large city, street sceen]
Collection: B2017.023