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B2021.004.253
Photographs from July 10, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Robert B. Atwood, editor and publisher of The Anchorage Times
Keywords: Ed Wesley, NAACP, Robert B. Atwood, Editor, Publisher, The Anchorage Times, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.252
Photographs from July 10, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Robert B. Atwood, editor and publisher of The Anchorage Times
Keywords: Ed Wesley, NAACP, Robert B. Atwood, Editor, Publisher, The Anchorage Times, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1994.008.112.13
(advisory committee and public hearings for land use)(June 13 16 1976)
Keywords: public hearing, meeting
Collection: B1994.008
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
B1986.096.traffic04
Traffic engineers, 1973
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B2021.004.Box6.Page15
"Her voice a whisper, Rosa Parks remembers the day she said no" 5/17/1982
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage, Rosa Parks, Civil Rights
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page17
State of Alaska Executive Proclamation by Jay Hammond, Governor, "hereby proclaim January 15, 1982, as: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day"
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, State of Alaska, Governor, Jay Hammond, Executive Proclamation, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 1/15/1982
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1981.19.164a
(Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum)(July 11 1966 Lunch at Westward "committee on Historical Museum")(Bill Creighton_ Parks and Rec, Wanda Gilles Griffon, Bob Reeve, Bill Scot, Dick Silberer_representing Hickel) Norman Sommers, Felmer Rasmuson, Mary Louise Rasmuson, Norma Hoght, Herb Hilscher)
Collection: B1981.019 AHFAM FIC
B1998.014.1.1389
(S9 Matanuska Valley soldiers & cow; 1946 postcard) [two service men posing with cow, next to fence, cow in pasture in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1994.008.291
(ocean bounty platform Seward 1978)
Keywords: oil rig, ocean, drilling rig, industry, mountains, Seward
Collection: B1994.008
B2021.004.216
Ed Wesley in front of 1st Annual Juneteenth banner
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1st Annual Juneteenth, Juneteenth, June 19, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.236
Ed Wesley with Al Hejaz lodge brothers [Prince Hall Masons, Wesley fourth from left. Likely Mt. Mckinley Lodge #2 of Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Prince Hall Masons, Al Hejaz, Lodge brothers, Prince Hall Masonic Lodge, Fraternity, History Makers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.237
Ed Wesley with Tony Knowles and one other Note on front: “To my good friend Ed who got me to the church on time. Best Tony”
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Tony Knowles, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.254
[Presentation, Ed Wesley]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Presentation, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.255
[Plaque presentation, Ed Wesley on left]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Plaque, Presentation, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.256
[Ed Wesley at meeting]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Meeting, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.1882.13
(Bristol Bay fishing) [cannery workers outside of warehouse, probably Libby, McNeill, & Libby cannery]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1390
(S9 Matanuska Valley; soldiers & cow; 1946 postcard) [similar to .1389]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.049.2
Herbert Smelcer, Deputy Director and Regional Planning Coordinator for AHTNA, reviews village and regional selection at a public hearing in Copper Center. March 1973
Collection: B2009.049
B1989.016.1324
Examining Palmer potatoes. Hewitt's, 90 [young man kneeling in field next to crate of potatoes, Matanuska Colony. copy neg]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1388
S9 Matanuska Valley (soldiers & cow; 1946 postcard) [two service men pose in field with dairy cow; fence; mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.004.239
Caption: "Obama" makes History 11-4-08 (Post 34) [Election day celebration. Ed Wesley in purple hat. American Legion banner in background. Anchorage.]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Obama, President, Election Day, Celebration, 11/4/08, American Legion, Post 34, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.248
Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, Police Chief, Brian Porter, NAACP, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.249
Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, Police Chief, Brian Porter, NAACP, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1994.008.082
[from verso:] "Ft Yukon, Alaska; Sen. H. Jackson, Sen. Hanson, Senator Tour, 1977; F-S Land Use Comm. - Alaska" Seven people gathered in front of Air North Fort Yukon Passenger entrance; one person looking through window from inside structure; wagon; portable stairway at left]
Collection: B1994.008
B2021.004.265
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.Box6.Page3a
.254-255 [Ed Wesley, meetings]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.576
A-71. Snow-bound, Tunnel, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [snow on cabin. Tunnel was a siding along the Alaska Railroad]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.004.93
Military portraits and photographs, and ephemera [Ed Wesley, Military Police, Fort Greely, Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Military, Police, Soldier, Portrait, Fort Greely, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1979.002.Album1.86
Span acroos [sic] Placer Creek, Mile 52. Eugene Underwood [railroad tracks crossing small wooden trestle bridge, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2014.016.1960
Seldovia. Cannery. G146 [Alaska Year-Round Canneries Co.]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B2014.016
B2021.004.266
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.Box6.Page14
"Black community eyes vote to spearhead social change" 2/12/1982
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2000.013A.s1.008
(Newtok, 1977) [interior image of women and girls wearing winter coats, hat, scarves, gathered in a public building; person using vending machine in background]
Collection: B2000.013A
B2021.004.264
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP [Virna center, Ed Wesley on right]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.2273.1
(Dog team, rear view) [musher and team on winter trail]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2274.1
[Hewitt's Drugs, corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street, Anchorage, summer, with pedestrians, automobiles, and street light]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.004.95.back
Military portraits and photographs, and ephemera. "Edward Patroling [sic] The Gate of Fort Greely" [Ed Wesley, Military Police, Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Postcard, Military Police, Patrol, Fort Greely, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2000.013A.s1.008
(Newtok, 1977) [interior image of women and girls wearing winter coats, hat, scarves, gathered in a public building; person using vending machine in background; calendar caption reads: "Going home for the holidays! These young ladies are on their way from high school and visiting friends in Bethel to villages in the CMC region."]
Collection: B2000.013A
B1998.014.1.1170
O33 Sky Twins - Fairbanks, Alaska (NC smoke stacks; 1946 postcard) [NC Co. sign between smoke stacks; rooftops, structures, river, forest in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley