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B2021.004.197
M. Ashley Dickerson [NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 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
B2006.023.4131.jpg
Joe Redington, Sr., dog team stopped on Iditarod Trail.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B2006.023.4131
Joe Redington, Sr., dog team stopped on Iditarod Trail.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.5.People.12.21
"1745 - 21a; 7/4/47; Girl Scouts on ARR truck float in 4th of July parade, 1947"
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1998.014.1.371
B88 TV antenna on the Mt McKinley Building, Anchorage, Alaska [view looking west down Fourth Avenue, Chevron gas station, East Side Service, Chugach Electric, automobiles, snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.4886.jpg
Orville Lake, Dick Mackey.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1998.014.1.372
B89 Anchorage bus depot (1946) [buses, people walking, street, sidewalk]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2054.8
8-1940 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [Baby Shop float with stork pulling sled]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.112
[Indigenous Alaskan woman and child standing outside midwinter, woman with arm around boy; white truck in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Mother, Child, Boy, Son, Family, Outside, Winter, Snow, Landscape, Horizon, Parka, Clothing, Outerwear, Hug, Truck, Vehicle, Transportation, Road
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2055.26
26 (July 4, 1938, parade) [drum majorette and color guard with flags]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2306.2.4
(Hewitt's) [interior view down aisle with goods]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
b2009.057.25
[Procession along dirt road, with horse-drawn carriages. Utility poles along street, buildings in background.] 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative.
Collection: B2009.057 Pyatt
B2017.024.3055
July 1983, aerials, villages [adjacent to .3054; boats on shore, people on beach, structures, bridge over channel]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2053.23
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [boy and girl in blackface, boy wearing tuxedo and bowler, girl wearing headscarf and apron and holding feather duster, buildings in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.32
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [parade on Fourth Avenue, passing signs for businesses including The Gitchell, Seidenverg's, U. G. Crocker, Tent Factory, and Gordon's Cantilever Shoes]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2055.18
18 (July 4, 1938, parade) [young woman riding on American Legion float, automobile festooned with crepe, flags, and banners reading "Fun, Fellowship and Service" and "8/40", passing building with sign for Carpenter Shop]
Keywords: fraternal organizations, military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2236.3
(Francis Bowden, Mayor of Anchorage, 1946-1947) [studio portrait]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.8.1.ANC.8.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC.8
B2006.023.2861.jpg
Iditarod Trail Championship Race Starting Line.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000