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B1981.145.82b
These are operated by the Alaska railroad from Nenana to Fortunahedge on the Yukon {back of post card}
Keywords: post card
Collection: B1981.145
B2021.006.03
Kenneth Card, Larry Card II, Minnie Card, Judge Larry Card, Krista Card [Card family at post-installation reception]
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Kenneth Card, Larry Card II, Minnie Card, Krista Card, Family, Reception
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.006.02
Kenneth [Card] and Minnie Card [Judge Card's wife and son at post-installation reception]
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Kenneth Card, Minnie Card, Wife, Son, Family, Reception
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B1983.146.103
Post Card Alaska Fur Bearing Trout (fish) {altered photo of a trout with fur}
Keywords: trout, fish, post card
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1999.014.1557
[Post Card of Trapper with furs standing in front of cabin along with his two dogs]
Keywords: dogs, cabin, camp, furs, winter, moose antlers, log cabin
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B2000.014.413
(413)(Mrs Kalland (Angeline Titi)(copy) from post card Tananina Feb 15 1915)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1983.146.170
Government railroad_ Driving first spike April 29 1915 { post card showing a woman getting ready to strike a spike into the ground with 5 men watching}
Keywords: post card, railroad, transportation, construction
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1983.146.170
Government railroad_ Driving first spike April 29 1915 { post card showing a woman getting ready to strike a spike into the ground with 5 men watching}
Keywords: post card, railroad, transportation, construction
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1998.014.1.1067
M13 Thawing frozen ground - to be dredged for gold - Goldstream, Alaska (post card 1946) [same as .1066]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1967.013.44
5 1/4" x 3 1/4" post card entitled Flat City Alaska showing a frontier town
Keywords: telegraph poles, pedestrians, horses, wagons, boardwalk, frontier, tarps, american flag, store fronts, log cabin
Collection: B1967.013 CIHS Sundberg
B2021.006.01
Judge Larry and Mrs. Minnie Card [at post-installation reception, Alaska Superior Court, 1993 October 1. Judge Card was the first Black person to be installed in the Alaska Superior Court.]
Keywords: Judge Larry Card, Minnie Card, The HistoryMakers, HistoryMakers, Alaska State Supreme Court, BIPOC, Judge, Black judges in Alaska, Black people in Alaska, Larry Card, Family, Reception
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B1998.014.1.683
F15 Ketchikan, Alaska, photo by Frank Morgan, "Unloading herring, 1949 post card" [same as .681, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1978.075.03
(Anchorage 1910 1919)(Moving the tent store The George Carrol building was ready and I believe this put in the back as a warehouse)( the original was a post card)
Keywords: horses, Anchorage
Collection: B1978.075 Carroll Collection
B1978.075.03
(Anchorage 1910 1919)(Moving the tent store The George Carrol building was ready and I believe this put in the back as a warehouse)( the original was a post card)
Keywords: horses, Anchorage
Collection: B1978.075 Carroll
B1994.004
1934 American Legion membership card No. 1306; October 21, 1933; Werner Ohls, past commander; Jack Henry Post No. 1
Collection: B1994.004
B1994.022.462
Komot and Pungi, Eskimo Village, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Wash., 1909. Official Post Card [same image as B1994.022.461]
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1979.002.3135
(River Boat Nenana)(ARR shipyard photo taken from bridge)(the big boat is the Nenana came from Marshall the other one is the Alice, Matanauska, and fish wardens boat in foreground also brages){see 3135b for post card notation}
Keywords: shipping, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1971.071.22
5 1/4" x 3 1/4" post card of Mr David (fifth from left) along with other towns people May 22, 1912 sitting in front of the Pioneer Road House. (see Herning Diary for details of photo)
Collection: B1971.071 Alice Butler
B1998.014.1.1442
S31 Fishing in the Aleutians (A favorite Aleutian sport; 1946 post card; fishing 4 on 1 & 1 other) [copy neg of four images, service men fishing on rivers, shore, rocks, waders; fishing poles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.3135b
(River Boat Nenana)(ARR shipyard photo taken from bridge)(the big boat is the Nenana came from Marshall the other one is the Alice, Matanauska, and fish wardens boat in foreground also brages)
Keywords: post card
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1971.071.23
5 1/4" x 3 1/4" post card of Mr David (fifth from left) along with other towns people seated in front of the Knik Commercial Club May 22, 1912 sitting in front of the Pioneer Road House. (see Herning Diary for details of photo)
Keywords: frontier, roadhouse, lodge, log cabin, children, men
Collection: B1971.071 Alice Butler
B1995.025.054
[from verso] Post Card; Terminal yard Anchorage alaska, Feb. 1st, 1917; #1-2-3-4-5 Bunk houses #6 mess hall #7 stores #8 cold storage 1917 [winter scene of wood strcutures; train in center right; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1995.025