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B1983.091.S1564.B69
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(man at kitchen table with coffee)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1984.077.2.012
[interior, frying pans, saucepan, coffee pot on stove. neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1983.091.S1564.B2
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native woman getting coffee from dencantor]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B7
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native woman getting coffee from dencantor]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1984.077.21.002
[waitress obscrures face, looks at camera, coffee burners, diner. Neg is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.21.001
[waitress, carrying coffee, covering face with hand, burners, woman watching. Neg is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2015.007.143
[four young Alaska Native men and women sitting drinking coffee. Print cropped]
Keywords: eating
Collection: B2015.007
B2018.023.071a
[Dog outfitted with side packs, pail, skillet, possibly a coffee pot; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1984.077.8.004
[View looking out window, trash barrels, bird in trash, "Reliance Coffee" cardboard box.]
Collection: B1984.077
b2011.014.35
Man with coffee pot, two women, along side of road. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B2018.023.071b
[verso of slide: dog outfitted with side packs, pail, skillet, possibly a coffee pot; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1975.104.017
Anchorage 1940-1949 [parade, girl on bicycle, tricycle, walking, grass skirt, "The Coffee Cup" sign, spectators]
Collection: B1975.104 Dorothy Zappa Collection
B2017.023.210
[Wally? holding drink and pipe; reflected in mirror, two women on sofa, eating, smoking, coffee table, photographs]
Collection: B2017.023
B2022.001.097
Letter to E&S Diversified Services and Mayfield Evans from Lois Andrews [Condition Note: small coffee stain at top of document]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Letter, Loise Andrews, Gratitude, Appreciation, Customer, Employees, Crew, Team, Work crew, Workmanship, High standard, High quality
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1984.077.2.013
[similar to .012: interior, frying pans, saucepan, coffee pot on stove. food in pans possibly fish? neg. is better than .012]
Collection: B1984.077
b2011.014.222
Man with fishing creel and coffee pot, sitting on running board of 1920s automobile. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative, torn
Collection: B2011.014
B1989.016.1333.1
A pause and refreshments. Hewitt's, 144 [automobile parked next to small building with signs The Shack, Stop Hot Coffee Dogs Lunches Beer]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.200
(Portage Glacier Lodge; August 1957) [sign for coffee shop, Alaskan souvenirs, film; structures, icebergs and mountains in background; automobiles, road, parking lots]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.658.1
Serving hot "coffee AND" S.E.R.A. Anchorage en route to Matanuska Valley. #1, Hewitt's Photo Shop [passengers and crew on station platform with rail cars on tracks]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.658.3
Come and get it! S.E.R.A. at Anchorage en route to Matanuska Valley. #3, Hewitt's Photo Shop [passengers and crew serving coffee on station platform with rail cars on tracks]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.C800.1
Bailey Covey for Hills Bros. Coffee at Carrs Food Center, 14th and Gambell. Jim Tapscott, Larry Carr, Bailey Covey. 11-10-1953 (2 negs)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1998.014.1.2237
"Murphy" Seward, Alaska [dog posed with packs and equipment; pail, iron skillet, coffee pot, gaitor; possibly belonging to John Dubreuil (image .2236); copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.271
B48 Copper Center Trading Post [two women at counter, scale, groceries, barrel stove, produce; Lipton Tea, Reliance Coffee on counter, Armour's Hennery Eggs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.1084
Jan71P7 #17900 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing tan parka with fur ruff sits at table talking; Coca-Cola cases in background; coffee urn on table in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Store, Coca-Cola
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2071
King Island, copyright 1986 [woman making coffee in kettle on Coleman Stove; Hills Bros; Lipton Tea box, cups, basin; snow; ice; boat, people in background
Collection: B2017.024
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
B1998.014.1.631
E49 Ivory worker at Diomede Island, Frank Morgan photo [man uses hacksaw to cut material held in a vice, tea kettle, Hills Brothers coffee can to left, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2001.036.1371
Quinhagak 10-82 "washing dishes" [interior scene: a man squats next to a plastic tub; two-burner stove, coffee urn, kettle, cups at left; corrugated steel container]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B1991.011.561
Newtok; Mary Ann Moses and family; Moses family [woman and children, infant pose in front of sod igloo; structure; parkas, fur; Hills Brothers coffee can at right; 1957; similar to .560]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1995.014.58.10
[portrait of Native family outside store, man, woman, and children in Western and traditional dress next to log building with Hills Bros. Coffee thermometer, woman wearing kuspuk, mukluks, and baby belt]
Keywords: food, footwear, clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.011.014
.14—[man standing in doorway of log building with signs: “Miners Exchange / Restaurant Bar / Wines, Liquors, _____, _____,” “Beer, Tea,” “Pabst Beer,” “Coffee & Pie,” “For Sa__.”
Collection: B1998.011
B2022.001.125
Letter to Mayfield’s Quality Cleaners, Governor’s Annual Family Picnic, signed by Elizabeth Roberts, Picnic Coordinator, August 10, 1999 [Condition Note: Coffee stain in upper right corner of document]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Letter, Mayfield's Quality Cleaners, Governors Annual Family Picnic, Elizabeth Coordinator, Governor
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1989.016.1082
#212. Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop [walled tent housing Matanuska Valley Pioneer, Jack Allman Publisher & Editor, with ad for Hills Bros Coffee and flyer for Bible lecture on post at left]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.58.9
[portrait of Native family outside store, man, woman, and children in Western and traditional dress next to log building with Hills Bros. Coffee thermometer and can of Standard Gasoline, woman wearing kuspuk, mukluks, and baby belt]
Keywords: clothing, food, footwear
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1446
S33 In-door sports, Aleutian Islands (4 in 1 pic) [service men at a card game; in bed; writing a letter, in a bar, barstools, cups, pinup posters, beer, cigars, coffee cups, Schlitz bottle.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.272
B48 Copper Center Trading Post [two women at counter, one holding Lipton Tea package, pencil. two dogs, scale, groceries, barrel stove, produce; Reliance Coffee on counter, Armour's Hennery Eggs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2143.17
25. Ready for S.E.R.A. at Anchorage. Hewitt's Photo Shop [bird's eye view of staff filling coffee cups on tables on platform next to tracks at Alaska Railroad depot, automobiles parked at left, State Emergency Relief Agency]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.52.4
[white man, Joe Secora? wearing mukluks and short fur parka with walrus tusk insets and geometric decoration at bottom hem, standing outdoors in winter with dog, sled and coffee carton at left, wood-frame buildings in background, Russian Mission?]
Keywords: clothing, animals, transportation, food
Collection: B1995.014
B2013.076.5
[flight crew loading bedrolls and other supplies onto sled outside building with sign “General Merchandise, Teller Post Office,” man at right probably proprietor, snowshoes propped against wall at right, Hills Bros. Coffee advertisement on wall at left]
Collection: B2013.076
B2019.007.446
Togiak, May 16, 1991 [restaurant/café kitchen, food preparation; photographer's number 2-T24-3 [woman usring ulu to cut lettuce or other vegetable; electric mixer and bowl; telephone; coffee carraffe; toaster; Wonder Bread bag; Diet Pepsi]
Collection: B2019.007
B1998.014.1.625
E44 An Alaskan family "at Fort Yukon" [man, woman wearing kuspuk, mukluks, with child on her back, two children standing, outside log structure, possibly a store, window, HIlls Bros. Coffee sign; Standard Gasoline can, wood crate to left, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1764
T89 Lesser Slave Lake Village, approach road to Dawson Ck. (Alaska Highway) [Alberta, Canada, road scene; railway crossing, fences, structures, "Imperial Dealer," "Coffee shop, meal"; tractor in roadway, automobiles, two horses hitched to wagon at left; church]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.005.56
Frank Pratt, Jack Wade, Alaska [man sitting inside cabin on bear fur draped over armchair, books lining shelves, magazine advertisements pasted to walls, cans from Hills Bros. coffee, radio and hurricane lamp at left, Roycroft symbol on box behind lamp]
Collection: B2018.005
B1991.011.560
Newtok; Mary Ann Moses and family; their sod igloo; 1957 [woman and children, infant pose in front of structure; parkas, fur; Hills Brothers coffee can at right; identified at 2019 AFN as Tununak (?) possibly Marie Moses, David (?), Mary Ann Hooper; Maggie John]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.1828
(T127 Fairbanks 2nd Ave) [street scene; people on sidewalk at right; automobiles, flag hanging over street; businesses: Pioneer Cab, Coca-Cola billboard, Monsey's Pantorium Cleaners, Circle Hot Springs billboard, Daily News Miner, Lucille's Apparel, Peerless Coffee Shop]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2521
"District Engineer Building Personnel; 1958" [woman with cigarette standing at likely a utility sink; coffee cups atop cabinet; projection screen leaning against cabinet; steel drum (container) at left foreground; shelves with labeled boses or books; door "Keep out unless invited to enter" sign; overhead pipes]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2013.007.024
[Photographic postcard] Flat City, Alaska, 1911, Lomen [street scene showing pedestrians on boardwalks, horse team, N. Jaffe Clothing & Furnishings, E.W. Griffin, Casey’s, Arcade Restaurant, The Home Spring Beds and Furnished Rooms, Globe Bakery & Coffee House, M & M Bank]
Collection: B2013.007
B2021.010.134
[two white men and one Indigenous man sitting underneath wood structure around a coffee pot, possibly at a campsite. Crate at center reads, “Keep in a dry place. Tale. United Dairy Assoc. (unreadable)] [At AFN 2024, location identified as possibly Spaulding Bay] [1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC, Camps and camping, Bays, Spaulding Bay, Crates
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection
B1989.016.1550.2
[street scene of Fourth Avenue in Anchorage looking east, with automobiles passing businesses including The Mint Bar, Coffee Cup, Bar Corral, Denali Theater, Aleutian Gardens, Lido Cafe, Rex Liquor Store, Blue Moon Hotel, Dick's Lounge, Monty's Trading Post, ALeutian Lanes Bowling. Termination dust on Chugach Moutnains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1688
T54 Artic [sic, Arctic] beach at Kotebue, Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan (print) [beach scene, dogs curled near wood posts, Hill Bros Coffee cans, bundle of nets and buoys, boat, structures, canvas wall tents, stove pipes, people in parkas at left midground, steel barrels, drying racks possibly holding fish; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley