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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
B2021.004.269
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page5
"African violets to go on display" 3/27/1981; "Black students will compete" 3/27/1981 [Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.267
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.270
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief [Ed Wesley on left]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.189
Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson and others with Rosa Parks [Rosa Parks next to Ed Wesley in bowtie. NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Rosa Parks, M. Ashley Dickerson, NAACP, Black is Brilliant, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page2
.251-253 [Photographs from July 10, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Robert B. Atwood,
editor and publisher of The Anchorage Times] ; "Publisher to be speaker" 7/8/1981
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage, NAACP, Robert B. Atwood, Publisher, The Anchorage Times
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.268
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief [Ed Wesley second from left]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2017.011.57
Alaska ’48 – Nonwhyenuk, Russ & Ray rigging for trout [Russ Sprague and Ray Petersen setting up fishing poles on gravel beach with driftwood and low brush, Nonvianuk Lake]
Collection: B2017.011
B2013.059.031
Canneries. Bering Sea. [four men in automobile, three men standing alongside, parked near equipment, possibly towable grader]
Collection: B2013.059
B2021.004.170
Note on back: “Chairita at church” [Ed Wesley's daughter]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Chairita Wesley, Church, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2022.001.076
Certificate of Appreciation, presented to Mayfield [Quality] Cleaners for 176th Wing Holiday Luncheon 2008 [Condition Note: small coffee stain on right edge] [Dated January 20, 2009]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Honor, Award, Certificate, Mayfield's Quality Cleaners, Certificate of Appreciation, Appreciation, Recognition, Gratitude, Presented, Mayfield Cleaners, 176th Wing Holiday Luncheon, Holiday, Luncheon, Donation, Generous, Support, Air Force, USAF, Charles Foster
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2021.004.186
Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson and others with Rosa Parks [Same as .188 and .195] [New Hope Baptist Church, Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson, Rosa Parks, New Hope Baptist Church, Church, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.1922.2
(Kachemak Bay and Spit) [bird's eye view from hills outside of Homer down to spit and bay]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1922.3
(Kachemak Bay and Spit) [bird's eye view from hills outside of Homer down to spit and bay, buildings visible at right]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.004.174
[Ed Wesley and family. Left to right: unknown, Ed Wesley, unknown, Wendell Wesley, unknown, Chairita Wesley, Fran Wesley]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Fran Wesley, Wendell Wesley, Chairita Wesley, Family, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.1880.6
(Fur Rendezvous Dog Teams on Fourth Avenue, 1952) [musher and team passing Anchorage Hotel at corner of 4th and E Street]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1924.1
(Alaska Railroad Moose Gooser, Fur Rondy, 1952) [two men dressed as Keystone Kops, one man dressed as robber, and train engineer acting out scene next to the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, locomotive 1050, with onlookers, during Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage. Cf. 1881.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1922.1
(Kachemak Bay and Spit) [bird's eye view from hills outside of Homer down to spit and bay]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection