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B1989.016.CodyO.1
[Cody, O Passport Photos 1942]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1989.016.JohnsonO.1
(Johnson O Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1989.016.CaesarGeorgeO.1
Caesar, George O., Passport Photos, 1942
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2021.004.258
Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.259
Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.260
Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2000.014.518
(518)(2nd -3 legged race Niozee and O Farrell July 5, 1915)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2013.059.022
Canneries. Bering Sea. [Diamond O or Diamond M cannery seen from water]
Collection: B2013.059
B1989.016.1217
55. End o' the day. Hewitt's Photo Shop (Tustumena Lake) [midnight sun]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.5428.jpg
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Palmer, a pot o' gold. Photo by Wayne Burkhart
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2006.023.5428
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Palmer, a pot o' gold. Photo by Wayne Burkhart
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.004.17499
June 1943 17499 O Johnson lived at the Reef, Yukon Ramparts since 1901 Trapper & Prospector.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2021.004.Box6.Page6
Bramstedt to address NAACP, 4/8/1981; .258-260 [Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2022.003.50
O 70, Moving to spring camp [three individuals with dog team and sled standing in the snow with boats and buildings in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Parka, Snow, Sled, Sled dog, Kayak
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
B2022.003.70
O 114 121, Orphanage children on Dr’s truck [a group of youth standing in truck bed with people on the ground next to the truck]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Truck, Orphanage, Telephone pole
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
B1969.022.28
AEC G864 Grand Lodge Officers and Charter Members of Anchorage Lodge1351 G. P. O. Elks Instituted March 30-[19]18
Collection: B1969.022 Levi-Sellin Collection
B2000.012.007
Ellen on decorated bike 1st prize Marshal's office & Jail where P O was Chief of Police Municipal Bldg 4th of July Anchorage Alaska
Collection: B2000.012
B2017.007.092
[looking east up possibly 8th Avenue near O Street past houses, with downed tower of Four Seasons Apartments at right, hospital in background]
Collection: B2017.007
B2019.007.642
Togiak, 1991; photographer number 2-T22-13 [Grass harvesting; person arranging dried grass in bundles o plywood floor; beaded bracelets]
Collection: B2019.007
B1996.035.2.1075to1076
.1075—Maple waiting to gas the JRF-Goose 10/2/46 [Grumman Goose aircraft] .1076—Commander S. O. Cole and Captain Harris looking at the bow wheel that I just fixed. 12/30/46
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_2_B6_F2_Kirby_Album
B1998.014.1.2123
W19 Rotary snow plow in action o the Alaska Railroad; photo by Gyuriak [copy neg; two workers stand atop train engine as it clears tracks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2013.059.030
Canneries. Bering Sea. [two men on tractor pulling wagon with four men aboard, "probably used on the road between NN and O and M." per Monsen]
Collection: B2013.059
B1992.033.38
O. W. Giest 49 Capt. Whitlam with group of native children who are his friends and all of whom seem to know him well, for he always distributes a generous supply of candy and chewing gum to youngsters of every village he visits.
Collection: B1992.033 Doris Bordine Collection
B1995.010.2397
Dog races, ’57 [musher with team at starting line on Fourth Avenue, signs for businesses including Smart Shop, Mode O’ Day, Conright’s Appliances, and Ship Creek Market, World Championship Sled Dog Races, Anchorage Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1995.010
B1996.035.2.1134to1136
.1134—Cmdr. Cole & Capt. Harris, Naknek, 4/18/47 .1135—Powll at Naknek with a rainbow trout, 4/19/47 .1136—Cmdr. S. O. Cole & Capt. D. Harris in the center and two Capts. From Kodiak on the ends. Naknek, 4/19/47. The fish are rainbow trout.
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_2_B6_F2_Kirby_Album
B1996.035.2.1109to1112
.1109—Hansen J. R. in the blister of the Cat, 5/4/47 .1110—Hansen and me, 5/4/47 [standing in front of PBY] .1111—Dunn G. O., 5/4/47 [standing in front of PBY] .1112—Oehler C. W., our radioman, 5/4/47 [leaning against sign: STOP THEN PROCEED AT 5 MPH, PBY in background]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_2_B6_F2_Kirby_Album
B1970.079.W62.018
Co. "A" 40th Armor - 1st Lt. Jack C. Reed, Com'd'g - H.F. Myers, 1st Sgt. - Ft. Wainwright, Alaska - August 13th 1962; Goldbeck photo no. 1813621; Goldbeck; National Photo & News Service, San Antonio, Texas [panorama of army unit; informal view of group, four men in white cooks' uniforms, five tanks; Goldbeck, E. O. (Eugene Omar)]
Collection: B1970.079 Alaskan Command
B1996.035.10.3.page.9
[newspaper clipping from Adak Tribune, daily schedule for radio station WXLB, March 15, 1946] [handwritten label, addressing envelope to S. L. Kirby at “Adak, Calif” with Calif crossed out and Alaska written in pencil, and note: “Don’t believe I ever heard of the place”] [newspaper clipping, letter from executive officer S. O. Cole detaching from duty at Adak: “The people and not the locality make a station. It is with this thought that I regret leaving Adak.”]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook