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B2021.006.41
“Man gets 77 years in wife’s murder” by Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News, March 10, 2004
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Judgement, Verdict, Isaiah Wallner
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.006.35
Aunt Odessa Branch from Omaha, Aunt Janie Hayes from Wichita, Aunt Luretha Reid
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Odessa Branch, Janie Hayes, Luretha Reid, Family
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.006.37
“Suspect explains odd tomb” by Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News, May 4, 2004 Bill Roth, photographer
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Trial, Anchorage Daily News, ADN
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.006.32
Mark Davis, who practiced law with Judge Larry Card, and Judge Larry Card’s neighbors Huong and Diep Phan
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Mark Davis, Huong Phan, Diep Phan
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.006.42b
“Card gets Superior Court seat” by Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News, Fran Durner, photographer [Photograph of Judge Card holding child, Jamaica Renner. Handwritten note added: God-granddaughter]
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Superior Court, Jamaica Renner, Granddaughter, Family
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.006.43
“ALASKA” USA TODAY, August 16, 1993. [clipping about Governor Hickel naming two judges, Larry Card as the first Black person named to a state court]
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Super court, State court, Governor Hickel
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.006.38
“Padgett receives 99 years” by Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News, January 12, 2005. Erik Hill, photographer
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Sheila Toomey, Erik Hill, Murder, Kenneth Padgett
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2009.017.1988.06.11
“An elephant’s memory is nothing compared to its imagination” ©1988 Sat. June 11, 1988 [John Wood saying ‘The recall is a Faiks, Halford, and ARCO scheme to keep me out of Juneau!’, Jan Faiks and Rick Halford countering ‘he’s just a part of the nkworth plot to steal the Senate from us’. Print]
Collection: B2009.017
B2021.006.33
Don Simmons [man speaking from lectern] [Huong and Diep Phan at left]
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Don Simmons, Huong Phan, Diep Phan
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2022.001.102
Letter to Mayfield Evans from Senator Ted Stevens, January 13, 2006
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, Alaskans, E&S Diversified Services, Letter, Senator, Senator Ted Stevens, Senator Stevens, Ted Stevens, Politician, United States Senate, US Senate, U.S. Senate, Marilyn Stewart, Invitation, Appreciation, Dinner, Orso, Restaurant, Alaska Senator
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.139A
Letter to E&S Diversified Services at U. S. Coast Guard Base, Ketchikan, Alaska from U.S. Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard, signed by Michael L. Dorsey, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard Commanding Officer, Coast Guard Base Ketchikan, March 2, 1994, with letter from Commanding Office USCGC Naushon dated February 24, 1994
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Letter, E&S Diversified Services, U.S. Coast Guard, Base, Ketchikan, Alaska, U.S., DOT, Department of Transporation, Dept. of Transportation, Michael L. Dorsey, Michael Dorsey, Captain, Commandig Office, USCGC, Naushon
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.103
Letter to Mayfield Evans from Department of Defense Contracting Division of Defense Commissary Agency, signed by Ginna L. Thomas, Contracting Officer, November 17, 2005 [Note on bottom in red pencil: “Happy B-Day Mayfield”]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Letter, Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Contracting Division, Contract, McChord AFB, McChord Air Force Base, Air Force Base, AFB, Tacoma, Washington, Direction, Commence performance, Resume services, Ginna L. Thomas, Ginna Thomas, Contracting Officer, Officer, Happy B-Day, Happy Birthday, Birthday
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2009.017.1985.07.21
“Campbell Creek Classic. New Formula” ©1985 Sunday July 21, 1985 [man holding soda can, ‘Now With Coliform’]
Collection: B2009.017
B2021.006.39
“Picking judges” July 26, 1993
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Governor, Governor Hickel
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.006.40a
“Governor gets no new choices to fill out court” by Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News (publication date cut off clipping)
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Law, Court, Governor Hickel, Superior Court
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B1989.016.206
No. 50. Airport and town of Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop. [aerial of Merrill Field and townsite to Cook Inlet]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2060.1
(Nellie and Jack Brown's 50th Wedding Anniversary, May 1, 1962, Mayor George Sharrock and Jack and Nellie Brown)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.017.1987.05.14
Leave it to Beaver
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1989.01.15
“Jan Faiks cleans out the president’s office for Senator Kelly” ©1989 Sun. Jan. 15, 1989 [emptying sack of money out window while wearing oil barrel on head . Pencil study on verso ]
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1990.04.017
another unsafe single bottom
Keywords: comics, exxon valdez, evos, Anchorage Daily News, political, cartoons
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1982.10.02
“The territorial imperative” ©1982 10/2/82 Saturday A12 [State and Municipality gorillas arguing over Point Campbell skyscraper, State holding skier, Municipality holding prisoner]
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1982.10.03
Ground Zero Local Issue 10/3/82
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, comics, cartoons, political
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1982.12.18
Alaska Statutes Guarantee a public right to know information concerning public meetings
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1982.AKMap.Cap.Punishment
AK Capital Punishment Proposals (1982)
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1982.Bulldozer.Subsistence
Subsistence living (1982)
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1982.In.Shadows
In the Shadows (Saturday August 10, 1982)
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1982.Wrecking.Ball
We think of it as building on the past (1982)
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1983.08.27
Asbestos Hazard 3.5 Kilometers Toxic P.C.B.'s 2.8 Kilometers On the other hand, think what it'll do to discourage vandals Saturday Aug 27, 1983
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, cartoons, comics, political
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1983.09.11
“Well, there goes the neighborhood” ©1983 Sun. Sept. 11, 1983 [sign on Fourth Avenue outside of Club 25, ‘New Home of Anchorage’s Oldest Building.’ Print]
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1983.12.18
Turnagain Heights 1964 1983 (1983)
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1983.Public.Wreck.Creation.Area
“Public wreck creation area” ©1983 [abandoned truck at Kincaid Park; junk car graveyard on bluff]
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1983.Someone.Knock
Ethics Legislation Someone Knock?
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1984.05.10
Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to youuuuu...
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1984.05.26
“Our energy policy? Burn petroleum byproducts” ©1984 Sat. May 26, 1984 [people shoving Oil Revenue money into Hydro Bail-Outs, Susitna Studies, and Rate Equalization Subsidy furnaces. Pencil study on verso]
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1984.06.23
©1984 Saturday June 23, 1984 [man painting sign ‘Welcome to the Little Su, Gunfire Hazard Today is Extreme’ jumping into garbage dump with beer cans and dog food to avoid armed motorists]
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1984.08.11
Loop Hole Veco Campaign Funding Plan
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1984.10.28
Ed Dankworth? Who's That?
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1985.02.24
“Shoot, at this rate it’s going to be cheaper to fly to Muldoon” ©1985 Sunday Feb. 24, 1985 [couple at bus stop reading newspaper headlined ‘Smith proposes Bus Fare Hike’]
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1985.03.17
Campaign finance reform? NAH... Politicians shouldnt have to jump through a bunch of procedural hoops
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1985.06
Alaska's Campaign contribution law is a sham...
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017