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B1962.001.1765
California Claim-Slate Creek 1900 [Camps & camping]
Keywords: California Claim, Claims, Slate Creek, Camps and camping, Tents, Supplies, Equipment, Caches
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1984.077.22.032
California Bar Beer Wine, Curios [street scene, buildings, automobiles, bridge in background]
Collection: B1984.077
B1995.010.1750
Clarissa on deck of ship at dock, looking down on passengers and automobiles, gas canisters at left, Standard Oil of California warehouse in center]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1894
T155 Seward, Alaska (depot & train) [copy neg, automobiles, structures, "Standard of California" siign in distance; mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2197.7
Lomen Bros. Nome #926 [Front Street, Nome, winter, with horses pulling sleds past buildings, signs for businesses including California Grocery]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.001.143
Newspaper clipping from Anchorage Daily News announcing E&S Diversified Services winning Contract from Maintenance and Logistics Command in Alameda, California, November 6, 1993
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Newspaper, Clipping, Anchorage Daily News, E&S Diversified Services, Announcement, Winning contract, Maintenance and Logistics Command, Heard on the Street
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.137
Certificate of Completion, presented to Mayfield Evans from Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institute, signed by Tracy Taft, Institute Director and Nathaniel Grant, Division Director, Oakland, California, November 1, 1995
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Certificate, Certificate of Completion, Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institute, Community, Tracy Taft, Neighbor Works, Nathaniel Grant
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1989.016.1766.2
(Juneau street scene, 1931) [Franklin St., with pedestrians, automobiles, and businesses including The Nugget Shop, Gastineau Hotel, The Baranof, Guy Smith Drugs, Bavard Bldg., California Grocery & Meats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.002.13.1
Cal Williams’s headshot, Hollywood, California, 1971-1975 [black and white photographs of Cal Williams, at bottom: contact information about Cal Williams’s manager, Ernestine McClendon of Ernestine McClendon Enterprises Inc.]
Keywords: Cal Williams
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.13.2
Cal Williams’s headshot, Hollywood, California, 1971-1975 [black and white photographs of Cal Williams, at bottom: contact information about Cal Williams’s manager, Ernestine McClendon of Ernestine McClendon Enterprises Inc.]
Keywords: Cal Williams
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.13.3
Cal Williams’s headshot, Hollywood, California, 1971-1975 [black and white professional photographs of Cal Williams, at bottom: contact information about Cal Williams’s manager, Ernestine McClendon of Ernestine McClendon Enterprises Inc.]
Keywords: Cal Williams
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1990.014.2018.1.17.005
5-1; April 1939; Panatonic x 40-24; woman with dog [woman with leashed dog on boardwalk, unleashed dog on road; Standard Oil Company of California on right; storage tanks; structures on left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.17.005
5-1; April 1939; Panatonic x 40-24; woman with dog [woman with leashed dog on boardwalk, unleashed dog on road; Standard Oil Company of California on right; storage tanks; structures on left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1996.035.10.3.page.12b
[typed letter, A.R. Brady, Captain, U.S. Naval Air Facility, Adak, Alaska to Mr. E. H. Kirby of El Centro, California, regarding his son, Stanton L. Kirby’s extension of his tour of duty, June 27, 1947 (unfolded)]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1998.014.1.1100
(N10 Cushman Street, Fairbanks, Alaska 1946 postcard) [copy neg; nighttime winter street scene; structures, stores, automobiles; Rexall Drugs; clock readiing 7:10; California Bar; Bank; Shoe Mart; lights over street; pennants]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.101.004
37-4 Exteriors at 1055 Stedman St [Ketchikan; January 1940; street view looking toward road leading to Standard Oil Company of California and water; fuel tank and tree stumps at right; ship in midground behind fuel tank; Pannock Island in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.101.004
37-4 Exteriors at 1055 Stedman St [Ketchikan; January 1940; street view looking toward road leading to Standard Oil Company of California and water; fuel tank and tree stumps at right; ship in midground behind fuel tank; Pannock Island in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
b2011.014.374
Mrs. Stockton & I at Oroville, Calif. May 19th 1915. [Two women seated on observation platform of railroad passenger car with sign reading “The Scenic Limited;” this train was run by the Western Pacific Railroad between Oakland, California and St. Louis.] 2.75 x 4.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.194
(Portage Glacier; 25 June 1961) (people, automobiles in parking lot near lake, icebergs, woman with camera standing next to Dodge station wagon with California plate SYN838; luggage carrier; Rambler with Alaska plate 76277; Oldsmobile with Alaska plate 80039 backed toward lake with trunk open; trash can near lake]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2001.002.18
Left to right, top row: Jeanne Laurence pretending to paimt SML painting; Jeanne Laurence painting in the field; Jeanne Laurence on ladder. Bottom row: Jeanne Laurence in shawl; Jeanne, Sydney, and Nellie Brown in California; Jeanne Laurence sitting under tree. Neg gift of Herb Green. 4 x 5 negative
Collection: B2001.002 FIC
B1989.016.1229.5
The first snowfall in Anchorage, Oct. 8th, 1915. Laurence [Fourth Avenue street scene with boardwalks, pedestrians, wood fram buildings and a walled tent, businesses including Mrs. T.D. Corlew, California Pool Room, Finkelstein & Sapiro Clothiers, Inside Inn, Miss Mac's Lunch Room, Cosy Inn, Riverside, Alaska Clothing Co.]
Keywords: tent city
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1996.035.10.3.page.12a
[typed letter, A.R. Brady, Captain, U.S. Naval Air Facility, Adak, Alaska to Mr. E. H. Kirby of El Centro, California, regarding his son, Stanton L. Kirby’s extension of his tour of duty, June 27, 1947 (folded)] [handwritten note card with itinerary for “Trip to Kodiak, Alaska 4/17/47.” Includes list of seven crew members and schedule for early morning take off]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1963.016.006
Anchorage Fourth Avenue, looking west between G & H sts. The snow falls in Anchorage, Oct. 8, 1915 [with businesses including Alaska Clothing Co., Cosy Inn, Miss Mac’s Lunch Room, Finklestein & Sapiro Clothier, California Pool Room, Riverside Café. Sydney Laurence, photographer] [First snow fall. An elevated view of downtown Anchorage 1915-1916 Townsite showing people walking along the street and board walk, business store fronts; horse team and wagon] [Dena'ina Territory, Dena'ina Elnena]
Keywords: Alaska, Anchorage, Early Anchorage, Dena'ina Territory, Dena'ina Elnena, First snow, Street view, Boardwalk, Businesses, Stores, Horse team, Wagon, Alaska Clothing Co., Cosy Inn, Miss Mac's Lunch Room, Finklestein & Sapiro Clothier, California Pool room, Riverside Cafe, Fourth Avenue, 4th Ave., G Street, H Street, G St., H St., Sydney Laurence, Photographer
Collection: B1963.016 Marie Silverman
B1962.001.0122
Calif. claim – “Slate Creek” [Gold mines & mining – Chistochina District] [Wooden sluice in disrepair. Ahtna Territory, Tsiis Tl’edze’ Caegge (Chistochina)]
Keywords: California claim, Calif. claim, Claim, Slate Creek, Creek, Gold mine, Mining, Chistochina District, Tsiis Tl’edze’ Caegge, Chistochina, Wooden sluice, Sluice, Disrepair
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson