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B2021.002.113
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.114
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.115
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.116
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.117
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.118
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.119
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.120
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.121
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.122
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.123
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.124
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.125
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2013.047.1
Log Cabin Visit Anchorage Information Center being constructed in Homer, 1954
Collection: B2013.047
B2013.047.2
Log Cabin Visit Anchorage Information Center being constructed in Homer, 1954
Collection: B2013.047
B2013.047.3
Log Cabin Visit Anchorage Information Center being constructed in Homer, 1954
Collection: B2013.047
B2013.047.4
Log Cabin Visit Anchorage Information Center being constructed in Homer, 1954
Collection: B2013.047
B2021.004.261
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
B2021.004.265
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
B2021.004.266
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
B2021.004.267
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
B1984.055.185
George Sullivan and military officer with schoolboys, visiting Fort Richardson? (same event, see .151)
Collection: B1984.055
B1990.014.4.43033
The Cordova Ice Worm visits Anchorage Fur Rondy in Feb 1978 43033 FEB 18 1978
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1991.011.588
Newtok [woman holds infant; structure in background; identified in 2019 village visit and AFN as Mary John]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1998.014.1.642
Visiting Eskimos to the Anchorage Rendezvous "E57 Diomede Eskimos at Anchorage, 1950" [Fur Rendezvous, similar to .641]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.028.031
[view through trees to mobile home park, sign at right reads “Stop Visit the Alaskan Village”]
Collection: B2017.028
B2021.004.Box6.Page10
.262-.267 [Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, Virna Canson
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1970.028.011
Kivalina Everybody visit on the "R.C. Bear" The Eskimos was not allowed forward so trading in Ivory furs and slippers was done "aft"
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1998.014.1.1298
O85 Spirit houses, Alaskan Native graves at Eklutna [orthodox crosses, people visiting cemetery at far right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
b2011.012.1.149
USS Panamint 9 Sept. 1945. Formal surrender. Visiting officers, staff & ship's company. Waiting.
Collection: B2011.012
B2021.004.262
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP [Virna and Ed Wesley]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page9
.261 [Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP]; "Wesley Elected"
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage, NAACP, President, Virna Canson
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.2012.3
Visiting Old Russian Church, Eklutna Alaska(Tour Bus at Eklutna 1955)[Alaska Highway Tours Bus parked in front of the Eklutna Church]
Keywords: bus, tourism
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.587
"Newtok, 1950s" [summer scene; woman poses with baby in front of structure; identified in 2019 village visit and AFN as Mary John]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2021.004.263
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
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
B2010.023.745
(Gov Ernest Gruening visited Mekoyuk 1961. Piolt Ray Christianson standing beside him. Illustartes changes in the clothing since 1940. Photo by State Photographer)
Collection: B2010.023
B1991.011.592
"Newtok, 1940s" [man and woman stand outside sod structure with wood and metal entrance; identified at 2019 AFN and 2019 village visit as William and Norma Andy]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1989.016.2012.4
Visiting Old Russian Church, Eklutna Alaska, Hewitts Drug Photo(Tour Bus at Eklutna 1955 copy of 2012.3)[Alaska Highway Tours Bus parked in front of the Eklutna Church]
Keywords: bus, tourism
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.591
"Newtok; Moses igloo; S.W. [southwest] tundra area" [people near wood and sod structure; identified in 2019 village visit as Aimryarmiut - where they blackfish trap; likely 1957 or 1958]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2012.006.083
[photo of folder labeled “United States Army Alaska Information Folder, visit of Gen. J. Lawton Collins” date 2 Aug 55(?); no date. Cf. .544]
Collection: B2012.006
B1987.071.028
[from verso] "cannieries" [caption is likely in Norwegian sending a greeting that the ship Alameda visited last Sunday, references "x" in upper left of building; steamship docked near cannery likely in Southeast Alaska]
Collection: B1987.071 Arnold Nelsen Collection
B2022.002.24
Right to left: Cal Williams, Harry Crawford, and Donna Brazil campaigning for Barack Obama, 2008 [Cal Williams in suit and striped tie during visit to Anchorage by Donna Brazil]
Keywords: Cal Williams, Harry Crawford, Donna Brazil, Politics
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1992.033.38
O. W. Giest 49 Capt. Whitlam with group of native children who are his friends and all of whom seem to know him well, for he always distributes a generous supply of candy and chewing gum to youngsters of every village he visits.
Collection: B1992.033 Doris Bordine Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.1.25.2B
1964 Earthquake - General; Anchorage Earthquake Damage: Much very good stuff; March 27, 1964 [men and women visiting the Earthquake Branch of Matanuska Valley Bank located in travel trailers]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1