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B2021.004.274
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition. Banners on mobile home: "Freedom Ain't Free Let's Support the NAACP" and "Denver Bound NAACP 1981 National Convention" [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Banners, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1990.014.004.PS3.oct75p6
Trans Alaska Pipeline runs into Pump Station Three on south slopes of Brooks Mts. Print date Oct 75 P6. Pro Pix stamp on back of mount. Slide category TAPS PS #3.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.5.Scn.9.004
Scn; Knik Glacier, clean break; 30 July 1961 [outcropping of land in foreground, glacier face, river below]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2015.028.15
(first trip of the year to Headwaters of Savage Jim Galen stuck in Savage River attempting to ford it)( June 19 1932 Savage Camp McKinley Park Alaska)
Collection: B2015.028
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.013
Scn 7 3217 48; 1935-1A; 4x5 horiz graphic air; Lowell Glacier (later called Exit Glacier 1989) Glacier showing terminal draining through Resurrection Pass. A Piedmont; July 1948; Glacier. [Most likely, this is Exit Glacier. Correction: Lowell Glacier and Exit Glacier are two different glaciers originating from Harding Ice Field. Neither glacier is near Resurrection Pass, but drain to Resurrection River]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.043
Scn Portage Glacier 1944 DCK [icebergs, water, shore, rocks, mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.2054.9b
9-40 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [automobile covered in ballons, with sign reading "Hoyts Make Your Car Troubles Far Lighter Than Bubbles," passing Rexall Drugs and Hewitt's Drug Store on Fourth Avenue at E Street. same neg number as .2054.9a]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2148.6
#6B (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [bird's eye view of floats and marchers on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage passing businesses including Alaska Jewelry Co., Sunfreeze Ice Cream Shop, H. Seidenverg Clothier, Ship Creek Meat Co., Dr. Hines Optometrist, Montgomery Ward Order Office, J. Vic Brown, Sears Roebuck and Co., and Lois Beauty Salon. Floats include 1941 model Dodge sponsored by Jack Henry Post No. 1 pulling Liberty Bell. Marchers include children on bicycles and group on horseback.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.9
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932, 9) [man in motorized scooter or wheelchair festooned with two American flags and banner reading "Roosevelt's New Deal," building in background, possbly Anchorage Fire Department?]
Keywords: disabilities
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.9.015
Scn 11240; Ice fall; 30 July 1961 [glacier calving into water]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.2145.9
9 (American Legion Banquet at the Idle Hour Country Club, Anchorage) [interior with people at tables]
Keywords: military, businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2052.4
(Basset, P.A.A.) [man wearing fur mittens and fur parka with geometric decoration standing in front of the window at the Pacific Alaska Airways office, Clark Bassett? circa 1934-35?]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.People.8.11
"People - pageants, Crouch fashion show, 7/20/65, Model - Crouch design" [woman in sleeveless dress with striped skirt walks on carpet]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People