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B1983.091.S2018.5 and.6
(voting at Alaska Statehood Polls)(voting and counting ballots)
Keywords: voting
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1972.088.34
(Anchorage 1915 Tent City Auction)
Keywords: public auction, land sale, people, auctioneer
Collection: B1972.088 Mueller
B1972.088.34
(Anchorage 1915 Tent City Auction)
Keywords: public auction, land sale, people, auctioneer
Collection: B1972.088 Mueller
B1995.014.99.1
[scenic view to mountains in distance, small structures in middle ground, Quonset hut and road in foreground, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.023.133
[Whitehorse, YT, Canada, barracks to right, river, mountains in background]
Collection: B2017.023
B1998.014.1.1544
S98 Diomede Island Eskimo soldier doing Native dance for Anchorage Rondezvous (G.I.) [soldier wearing gloves with fur cuffs, drummers, singers, skin drum, furs, mukluks with geometric patterns, stage, curtains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.007.141
[two women and young girl outdoors in winter in sparsely wooded area, one woman wearing fur parka with geometric decoration, woman with back to camera and young girl wearing print parkas with fur trim]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2022.005.173
[Two Indigenous Alaskan kids at a picnic reading comics; boy with pompadour hairstyle covering his face with an Archie comic]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Kids, Young man, Boy, Girl, Comics, Comic, Archie, Picnic, Pompadour, Hairstyle, Reading, Recreation
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1983.091.S2023.41
(Statehood Celebration bonfire and crowds)( bonfire burning)
Keywords: statehood
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2023.42
(voting at Alaska Statehood Polls)(broadcasting results, people appearing)
Keywords: voting
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2034.1
Photo by M. Cramer (A hot lunch in Alaska. Goats, Morris Cramer's photo) [mountain goats with kid nursing. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2034.2
(A hot lunch in Alaska. Goats, Morris Cramer's photo) [mountain goats with kid nursing. copy neg]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2034.3
(A hot lunch in Alaska. Goats, Morris Cramer's photo) [mountain goats with kid nursing. copy neg]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2035.1
(Monument, Anchorage-Palmer Highway) [stone marker with metal plaque, "This tablet is erected by the Alaska Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to commemorate the opening of the Anchorage-Matanuska Highway, 1935"]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2035.10
(Monument, Anchorage-Palmer Highway) [five women standing next to stone marker, with American flag, Alaska flag, and Daughters of the American Revolution flag. Women identified on envelope as Mrs. Edmonds, Mrs. Romig, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. McCrosky, Mrs. Olson]
Keywords: roads, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2035.11
(Monument, Anchorage-Palmer Highway) [five women standing next to stone marker, with American flag, Alaska flag, and Daughters of the American Revolution flag. Women identified on envelope as Mrs. Edmonds, Mrs. Romig, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. McCrosky, Mrs. Olson]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1524
S88 Housing area, Fort Richardson [structures, street, sidewals, lawn, trees, garden hose; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1543
S97 Gate No 1, Elmendorf Field, Alaska (war times, 1970 postcard) [copy neg, winter scene, automobiles lined up at guardhouse; people in background appear to wait at a shelter; structures in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
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.S4193.001
Benny Benson, designer of Alaska flag (2/22/64). Interior, man at table, autographing. [two women talking with Benson; parka, Pacific Northern Airlines counter in background, PNA aircraft model tail at left]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2055.22
22 (July 4, 1938, parade) [baseball team in uniforms]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
b2009.057.19
A Good Start. [Horse teams moving large tent.] 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative.
Collection: B2009.057 Pyatt
B2022.001.009
Mayfield Evans, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson [Waterfront portrait. Dena'ina Elnena, Dena'ina Territory, Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage)]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, Alaskans, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, JBER, Base, Elmendorf-Richardson, Waterfront, Portrait, Outdoors, Dena'ina Elnena, Dena'ina, Territory, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1990.014.5.People.19.162
People - Rondy - 1955 2-3922-55; Wes Heverling, Bill Bittner [two men wearing suits stand at microphone while audience seated at tables watch; cameras; icicle decoration overhead; possibly at Miners & Trappers Ball in Elks Club]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 19
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
B2016.006.1844
[carver working inside building, possibly King Island Chief Aulaġana (John Olarana); 1950s]
Keywords: carving, artists
Collection: B2016.006
B1989.016.2056.31
Hewitt's 31 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army truck) [military automobiles, trucks, and heavy gun in Fur Rendezvous parade headed west on Fourth Avenue, passing spectators and businesses including Northern Commercial Co., U.G. Crocker, Alaska Storage, Richmond's Restaurant]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection