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B1989.016.531.2
Green Lake cabin [now Elmendorf Air Force Base]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.531.1
Green Lake, reflection of cabin in lake [now Elmendorf Air Force Base]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1261
Hewitt's Photo, 1 (Fairchild C-825 at Elmendorf Air Force Base) [six airplanes on field]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1541
S96 (Elmendorf Air Force Base gate sign. Top cover for America) [same as .1540; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1542
S96 (Elmendorf Air Force Base gate sign. Top cover for America) [same as .1540; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1549
(S100 Elmendorf Air Force Base, flag pole 1945 "V") [similar to .1548, soldiers on sidewalk at right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.046
A18 5040th Air Force hospital at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska (1040th [on envelope]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1548
(S100 Elmendorf Air Force Base, flag pole 1945 "V") [flag flying near exercise grounds; structures, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.64.1
[twin-prop taildragger airplane on landing strip, mountains in background, Merrill Field or Elmendorf Air Base?]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.028.176
[view past building with sign “ACS G-5” toward metal barrels in clearing, rows of housing and Quonset huts in background, probably Elmendorf Air Force Base]
Collection: B2017.028
B1998.014.1.316
B63 (Elmendorf Air Terminal) [terminal building, tarmac]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1540
S96 (Elmendorf Air Force Base gate sign. Top Cover for America) [winter scene of entrance sign, snow gate posts, structure in left distance; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.318
B63 (Elmendorf Air Terminal) [looking across tarmac at terminal building]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.001.135.exterior
Program, 3rd Services Squadron Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Iditarod Dining Facility, Building 31-170, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, July 13, 1995 [Autographed on front by Joe Redington Sr.]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Program. 3rd Services Squadron, Ribbon cutting ceremony, Ceremony, Iditarod, Buliding 31-170, Elmendorf, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Base, Air force, EAFB, Alaska, Autograph, Joe Redington Sr.
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.135.interior
Program, 3rd Services Squadron Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Iditarod Dining Facility, Building 31-170, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, July 13, 1995 [Autographed on front by Joe Redington Sr.]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Program. 3rd Services Squadron, Ribbon cutting ceremony, Ceremony, Iditarod, Buliding 31-170, Elmendorf, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Base, Air force, EAFB, Alaska, Autograph, Joe Redington Sr.
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1995.014.64.2
[man standing near twin-prop taildragger airplane on landing strip, mountains in background, Merrill Field or Elmendorf Air Base?]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1995.014
B1971.056.007
(From verso: "President Nixon shaking hand of Emperor Hiro Hito [Hirohito], Mrs. Nixon behind Pres., Empress on steps of plane") [Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, Nagako, at Elmendorf Air Force Base]
Collection: B1971.056
B1998.014.1.1553
S103 Elmendorf AFB - 1945 (combat bomber WWII 11th Air Force named Mormon Boy II) [same as .1552; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.199
B14 Elmendorf club house built by soldiers (log) [caption reads: "club house built by air men at elmendorf Field, Alaska"]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.315
B63 (Elmendorf Air Terminal) [terminal building beyond tarmac, mountains and clouds in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1552
(S103 combat bomber WWII 11th Air Force named Mormon Boy II) [nose art on B-25 aircraft number 57, depicting enemy kills, battleship; Elmendorf AFB, 1945; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1952
T190 Anchorage, Alaska (Air view; postcard 1946) [aerial view looking northwest over Fairview, Downtown, Ship Creek, Government Hill, Alaska Railroad, Fort Richardson, Elmendorf, Knik]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley