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B2009.009.476
[dog with face full of porcupine quills. Partially legible note on verso]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B2009.009
B1998.014.1.2229
alaska black bear. Alaska Shop "Alaska black bear & Flynn" [man posing next to bear cub on chain standing on stump; man's gloved hand is in bear's jaw]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2225
"Moose" [winter scene of moose standing among birch; structures; automobiles; possibly in Anchorage]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2227
Rainbow trout - Russian River Alaska "13-3/4 lb, 1939" [similar to .2226]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2228
"Bromide, Big Halibut" [fish hung at rail of likely a pier or dock]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.4.Science.22.HSSS371853
Birch grove: Betula papyrifera Kenaica is seen in southwest Yukon Terr on Yukon River. Birch grove, Yukon, 371853, Hot Shots Stock Shots
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1998.014.1.795
"L32 University of Alaska "1946 postcard" [college campus structures, hill, trees, road]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.004.Box6.Page7
"Mayor declares Sunday NAACP day" 5/14/1981; "Ham it up for your mother" 5/8/1981; "NAACP will celebrate" 5/8/1981, "The Anchorage N.A.A.C.P. Presents Spring Festival May 15, 1981"
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, NAACP Day, Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1998.014.1.2180
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; group photo" [women, children, man pose for photograph; baskets]
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
B2017.024.3409
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; people; men, women; children collecting packages at gravel landing strip; along coast; northern Alaska]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3411
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play on bicycless and wagon on boardwalks near Savoonga Native Store]
Collection: B2017.024
B2018.021.621
Kodiak? 50s [fishing boat Adalee at warehouse dock, man standing on dock, breakwater at left, large buildings on hillside in background]
Collection: B2018.021
B2022.001.115A
Letter and Contractor Performance Evaluation, to E&S Diversified Services from Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, signed by Darnell E. Folks, July 31, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Letter, Contractor, Contract, Performance Evaluation, Performance, Evaluation, Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, AFB, Air Force Base, Air Force, USAF, Report, Darnell E. Folks, Darnell Folks, Contracting Officer
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.115.pg1
Letter and Contractor Performance Evaluation, to E&S Diversified Services from Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, signed by Darnell E. Folks, July 31, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Letter, Contractor, Contract, Performance Evaluation, Performance, Evaluation, Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, AFB, Air Force Base, Air Force, USAF, Report, Darnell E. Folks, Darnell Folks, Contracting Officer
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.115.pg2
Letter and Contractor Performance Evaluation, to E&S Diversified Services from Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, signed by Darnell E. Folks, July 31, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Letter, Contractor, Contract, Performance Evaluation, Performance, Evaluation, Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, AFB, Air Force Base, Air Force, USAF, Report, Darnell E. Folks, Darnell Folks, Contracting Officer
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.116
Copy of Certificate of Appreciation from the United States Coast Guard Kodiak Commissary and The Defense Commissary Agency to Marcello Townsend, signed by James R. Rector, Commissary Officer, December 2, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Honor, Award, Certificate, E&S Diversified Services, Business, United States Coast Guard, Coast Guard, USCG, Kodiak Commissary, Kodiak, Commissary, Defense Commissary Agency, DECA, DeCA, Marcello Townsend, Employee, Team, Crew, Certificate of Appreciation, Appreciation, Commended, Commendation, Contributions, Effort, Professional, Performance, James R. Rector, James Rector, Commissary Officer, Officer
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.117A
Letter to Mayfield Evans from State of Alaska Office of the Governor, Governor Frank H. Murkowski, in response to request for list of Black GOP elected or appointed officials, signed by Linda Snyder, Boards and Commissions, September 2, 2003, Copy of invitation to The First Annual New Black Leadership Coalition Summit of Black Republican Elected and Appointed Officials, September 23 and 24, 2003 in Washington, D.C., First Annual New Black Leadership Coalition Summit Fact Sheet and Reply Form from Mayfield Evans [page 2 of 7]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Mayfield's Quality Cleaners, MQC Enterprises Inc., Business, Letter, State of Alaska, SOA, Office of the Governor, Governor's Office, Frank H. Murkowski, Frank Murkowski, Governor Frank Murkowski, Governor Murkowski, Governor, Politician, Request, Response, List, Invitation, Center for New Black Leadership, CNBL, Black Leadership, Black GOP, Officials, Linda Snyder, Boards and Commissions, First Annual New Black Leadership Coalition Summit, First Annual, Coalition, Summit, Black Republican, Republican, Fact Sheet, Response
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.117B
Letter to Mayfield Evans from State of Alaska Office of the Governor, Governor Frank H. Murkowski, in response to request for list of Black GOP elected or appointed officials, signed by Linda Snyder, Boards and Commissions, September 2, 2003, Copy of invitation to The First Annual New Black Leadership Coalition Summit of Black Republican Elected and Appointed Officials, September 23 and 24, 2003 in Washington, D.C., First Annual New Black Leadership Coalition Summit Fact Sheet and Reply Form from Mayfield Evans [page 3 of 7]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Mayfield's Quality Cleaners, MQC Enterprises Inc., Business, Letter, State of Alaska, SOA, Office of the Governor, Governor's Office, Frank H. Murkowski, Frank Murkowski, Governor Frank Murkowski, Governor Murkowski, Governor, Politician, Request, Response, List, Invitation, Center for New Black Leadership, CNBL, Black Leadership, Black GOP, Officials, Linda Snyder, Boards and Commissions, First Annual New Black Leadership Coalition Summit, First Annual, Coalition, Summit, Black Republican, Republican, Fact Sheet, Response
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.117
Letter to Mayfield Evans from State of Alaska Office of the Governor, Governor Frank H. Murkowski, in response to request for list of Black GOP elected or appointed officials, signed by Linda Snyder, Boards and Commissions, September 2, 2003, Copy of invitation to The First Annual New Black Leadership Coalition Summit of Black Republican Elected and Appointed Officials, September 23 and 24, 2003 in Washington, D.C., First Annual New Black Leadership Coalition Summit Fact Sheet and Reply Form from Mayfield Evans [page 1 of 7]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Mayfield's Quality Cleaners, MQC Enterprises Inc., Business, Letter, State of Alaska, SOA, Office of the Governor, Governor's Office, Frank H. Murkowski, Frank Murkowski, Governor Frank Murkowski, Governor Murkowski, Governor, Politician, Request, Response, List, Invitation, Center for New Black Leadership, CNBL, Black Leadership, Black GOP, Officials, Linda Snyder, Boards and Commissions, First Annual New Black Leadership Coalition Summit, First Annual, Coalition, Summit, Black Republican, Republican, Fact Sheet, Response
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1998.014.1.794
L31 Experimental Farm, Tanana Valley "1946 postcard" [cropped version of .793, coy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.006.40b
“Governor gets no new choices to fill out court” by Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News (publication date cut off clipping)
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Governor Hickel, Superior Court
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B1989.016.1476.1
The Boss of the Herd. Hewitt's Photo Shop [caribou herd. name Bragaw's scratched off neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2175
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; 2 children and adult" [children and woman sit at table with Easter baskets, jacks game]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.119
A48 Blue fox, commonly seen in Aleutians 1946 "blue fox - an Aleutian resident"
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.006.11
Judge Larry Card’s sister, Marilyn Evans, with Charles Card
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Marilyn Evans, Charles Card, Family
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2018.023.090a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “90” “Arctic Owls; A-340 [?]” [three owls on perches, likely taxidermy with fabric background; black and white]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.061a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “62” [caption] “Rocking on Nome Beach” [three men using minding equipment in water, cart, sluicebox, rocker box; structures in background; boats or possibly dredges in distance; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.090b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “90” [verso of slide] “Arctic Owls; A-340 [?]” [three owls on perches, likely taxidermy with fabric background; black and white]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.061b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “62” [verso of slide; caption] “Rocking on Nome Beach” [three men using minding equipment in water, cart, sluicebox, rocker box; structures in background; boats or possibly dredges in distance; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.058a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “29” “Freighting with Reindeer, Nome, Alaska” [snow scene; people wearing parkas, surrounding sledge filled with supplies, furs, reindeer, handler, snow, harness, structure in background; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.058b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “29” verso of slide: “Freighting with Reindeer, Nome, Alaska” [snow scene; people wearing parkas, surrounding sledge filled with supplies, furs, reindeer, handler, snow, harness, structure in background; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.056a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print photograph, “Trains run regularly over the White Pass & Yukon all year.”] [winter scene of train engines on bridge over gorge; side of train cars at far right; mountain in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.056b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide] [from verso of print photograph, “Trains run regularly over the White Pass & Yukon all year.”] [winter scene of train engines on bridge over gorge; side of train cars at far right; mountain in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.060a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “58” “…ld Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Day Creek, Nome, Alaska” [likely Wild Goose Co.; miners at sluice boxes, water, equipment; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.034a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “64” [winter scene; men, women, children wearing fur parkas, mukluks pose in front of cache; furs on cache; ladder, possibly boats in background; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.060b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “58” “…ld Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Day Creek, Nome, Alaska” [verso of slide: likely Wild Goose Co.; miners at sluice boxes, water, equipment; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.034b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “64” [verso of slide: winter scene; men, women, children wearing fur parkas, mukluks pose in front of cache; furs on cache; ladder, possibly boats in background; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2023.003.44
3985, 19, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad train engine and train cars parked on tracks with an automobile parked to the right of tracks and snow-capped mountains in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Portage, Alaska Railroad, Chugach Mountains, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides