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B2021.006.15
Left to Right: Governor Walter J. Hickel, Judge Larry Card, James Wanamaker. "My best wishes God bless Walter J. Hickel" [at installation into Alaska Superior Court, 1993 October 1. Judge Card was the first Black person to be installed in the Alaska Superior Court. Wanamaker installed into District Court of Alaska.]
Keywords: Governor Walter J. Hickel, Judge Larry Card, Judge James Wanamaker, The HistoryMakers, HistoryMakers, Alaska State Supreme Court, District Court of Alaska, BIPOC, Judge, Black judges in Alaska, Black people in Alaska, Larry Card, Governor, Walter J. Hickel, Judge, James Wanamaker, Signed
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.2.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1989.016.147.5
Sydney Laurence painting, Northern lights and cabin.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.111
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2022.001.128
Certificate of Appreciation, Dedicated Community Supporter, presented to Mayfield Evans, signed by Doris J. Ross, Principal, Mountain View Elementary, 1998-1999
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Certificate, Certificate of Appreciation, Dedicated Community Supporter, Community, Supporter, Doris J. Ross, Doris Ross, Mountain View Elementary, School
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1995.014.44.1
[view down ditch, possibly for hydraulic mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.165.001
Panoramic photograph of downtown Anchorage 1971. National Photo and News Service image #1828711
Keywords: panoramic; 1971; Anchorage; Pt Mckinzie, Knik Arm
Collection: B1979.165_001
B2014.023.172
(military town)[large encampent situated in the mountains]
Keywords: military
Collection: B2014.023
B1995.014.115.5
[two women wearing headscarves seated on platform inside drying rack cleaning salmon, Russian Mission]
Keywords: fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.145.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1984.077.5.008
Fairbanks [depot, railroad tracks, bridge in distance, rail cars in right foreground, telegraph? poles]
Collection: B1984.077
B2009.017.2003.04.12
“Note to the Legislative Liposuction Squad: Remove the fat, not the brain” ©2003 4-12 [Longevity Bonus, U.A.]
Keywords: education, economy
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.32.04
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.1207
O51 An Alaskan totem; photo by Frank Morgan (1948 postcard & print) [copy neg; Giant Rock Oyster Memorial, Saxman, depicts man with hand caught in oyster at bottom of pole]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.4435
Carousel labeled: Buying fish Pitkas Point. Joe Sr. fish buying.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.5.TV.083.76.5.1A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.132.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.59.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.41
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.11.7
(timber)(July 1966)(Rock Pit at end of road )(Rio Beaver NP)
Keywords: logging, natural resources, lumber, construction, forestry
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B2017.011.184
Alaska ’47 – Lake George Glacier, little known glacier forms lake, dumps as water pressure breaks thru lower section of glacier [aerial of glacier]
Collection: B2017.011
B2017.024.3352
June 1971, Northern Alaska [men, women, children gathered on tarmac near Wien Consolidated Boeing 737 N4906; man carrying luggage]
Collection: B2017.024
B2022.005.208
[Two Indigenous Alaskan Elder women with child standing outside house midwinter]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Family, Elder, Elders, Grandma, Grandmother, Woman, Women, Child, Toddler, Outside, Winter, Snow, House, Home, Building, Buildings, Community, Parka, Fur, Clothing, Outerwear
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.905
(L88 Anchorage Palmer Highway "green pastel exposure is about normal" #6 f 5.6 5 sec. 50 (1950?)) [same location as .903, person walking down road]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.11078
Attu Campaign Bivouac Areas May 12-15, 1943 Area near Massacre Bay where men bivouaced during first week of battle.
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.9.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1994.022.924
(Richardson Highway-construction camps)
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1979.002.Album1.138
R22-2. Controller Bay [view across water to mountains, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
