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B1983.091.S2023.36
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Crowd waiting on the park strip for the bonfire)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.30
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( bonfire on the park strip)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.34
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Waiting for the Bonfire)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.23
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( Fire Deapertment ladder looking toward the masonic temple and the Reed Bldg)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.24
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(People gathering on the park strip for the Bonfire)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.38
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Waiting for the Bonfire)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2021.004.275
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, Members, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Horseback, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1983.091.S2023.17
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Lions Club member selling Alaska penants)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.21
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( Bonfire pile waiting: flag of the Post 728 Central Lutheran Brotherhood in the foreground)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.22
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Bonfire pile waiting: flag of the Post 728 Central Lutheran Brotherhood in the foreground)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.25
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( bonfire on the park strip)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.27
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( bonfire burning)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.40
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Crowd gathering on the park strip for the Bonfire)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2018.9 and.10
(voting at Alaska Statehood Polls)(voting and counting ballots)
Keywords: voting
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.1
(Anchorage Fire Department setting up ladder for the large flag on the federal building.)
Keywords: flag, fire department
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.20
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(People in front of federal Building)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.28
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( bonfire burning)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.29
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( bonfire on the park strip)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.32
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Crowd gathering on the park strip for the Bonfire)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.33
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Waiting for the Bonfire)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.35
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Crowd waiting on the park strip for the bonfire )
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.37
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(People waiting bonfire on the park strip0
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.844
L55 Along the Alaska Railroad (1946 postcard) [copy neg; same as .843]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1983.091.S2023.14
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Women carrying penants (49th) in front of the smart shop)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.31
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Crowd gathering on the park strip for the Bonfire)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2000.014.506
(506)(young Painter Arthur painting in shed Tanaina June 1915)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1983.091.S2023.10
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Rita Martin putting up large star on the federal bldg flag)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.11
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)(Rita Martin putting up large star on the federal bldg flag)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.12
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( 12_ the large flag)(13_Fourth Avenue)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.13
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( 12_ the large flag)(13_Fourth Avenue)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.5
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( bonfire on the park strip)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.6
(Statehood Celebration)[copy neg of large american flag being hung on building]
Keywords: statehood, celebration
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.6.crop
(Statehood Celebration)[copy neg of large american flag being hung on building]
Keywords: statehood, celebration
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4753.1
Street - lighting on 9th Ave from E St east, 7-69 [Chugach Mountains in distance, park strip on right, Equitable Life, Texaco, and other businesses on left, street lights]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2015.007.126
[group portrait of large group of villagers posed next to large wooden building, two women sitting in sled in front, people wearing both traditional and Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B2022.001.020
Mayfield Evans, left, with Anthony “Bunch” Evans
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Anthony "Bunch" Evans, Anthony Evans, Table, Dinner
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.148
Poster, “Wanted Wet & Cold,” undated [poster promoting Mayfield Evans participating in Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center’s fundraising dunk tank at Family Fun Fitness Fair, Fairview Lion’s Park]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Poster, Wanted Poster, Wanted Wet & Cold, Dunk tank, Promotion, Promoting, Anchorage, Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, Fundraising, Fundraiser, Family Fun Fitness Fair, Fariview Lion's Park
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1983.091.S2018.6
(voting at Alaska Statehood Polls)(voting and counting ballots)
Keywords: voting
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2018.7 and.8
(voting at Alaska Statehood Polls)(voting and counting ballots)
Keywords: voting
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.15
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( Lions Clu member selling Alaska penants)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.16
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( Lions Clu member selling Alaska penants)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2021.002.068
Samuel Fleming, Gregory Fleming, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1963 [father holding son.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Gregory Fleming, Fairbanks, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.002.072
Left rear, Samuel Fleming, others unknown, Fairbanks, Alaska, early 1950s [friends celebrating.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Fairbanks, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1983.091.S2023.19
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)("Alaska State or Bust" covered wagon truck in front of the Smart Shop))
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.43
(voting at Alaska Statehood Polls)(broadcasting results, people appearing)
Keywords: voting
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.925
P-537. 9/22/36. Hewitt's Photo (Grading & Sorting Potatoes) [man sorting potatoes on conveyor belt next to barn]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection