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B2009.017.1999.10.17
Your OPen Meetings Act at work
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2021.004.275
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, Members, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Horseback, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page8b
"'Olympics of mind' Saturday" [Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP, Black is Brilliant, Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.272
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition [Children with winners banner. ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Children, Youth, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.276
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition. Banner: "Freedome Ain't Free Let's Support The NAACP" [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Banner, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.197
M. Ashley Dickerson [NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson, NAACP, Black is Brilliant, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page5
"African violets to go on display" 3/27/1981; "Black students will compete" 3/27/1981 [Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.274
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition. Banners on mobile home: "Freedom Ain't Free Let's Support the NAACP" and "Denver Bound NAACP 1981 National Convention" [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Banners, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1997.019.03full
He suspends them over his meat cellar. He puts labret in his mouth, acting host to the whole village who calls to be served with a piece of whale meat last caught by him.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B2017.022.42
Storm building over house & sign condemning Antiquities Act, Eagle [house with sign on porch reading “National Park Service employees and anyone else advocating a dictatorship (including those locally who support National Park Service activities under the Antiquities Act) are not welcome here!”; print date Aug 82]
Collection: B2017.022
B2017.011.60
Alaska ’48 – Nonwhyenuk, Len Hall caught in the act [Len Hall bending down to remove fish from line on lakeshore, man standing in lake in background, Nonvianuk Lake]
Collection: B2017.011
B2013.060.13
Another picture of the wrecked driver. This constituted the first act in the railroad war successfully terminated on July 3rd in favor of the Katalla Co. [view of bridge under construction with damaged pile driver]
Collection: B2013.060
B2021.004.187
Ed Wesley and others with M. Ashley Dickerson [Ed Wesley at podium with Rosa Parks to his left. NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson, Rosa Parks, NAACP, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Black is Brilliant, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2022.001.080
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Academic, Cultural, Technological & Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), in appreciation to Mayfield Evans, May 20, 2012 [Condition Note: slight crinkling of right edge]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Honor, Award, Certificate, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, Academic Cultural Technological & Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, Academic, Cultural, Technological, Scientific, Olympics, Appreciation, Support, Youth Program, Anchorage, Andrea Antoine, Wanda V. Greene, Wanda Greene
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2021.004.194
Ed Wesley, Tony Knowles and others with Rosa Parks [Rosa Parks in center with Knowles and Wesley to right. NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Rosa Parks, Tony Knowles, NAACP, Black is Brilliant, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.1924.2
(Alaska Railroad Moose Gooser, Fur Rondy, 1952) [man dressed as robber and train engineer acting out scene next to the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, locomotive 1050, during Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1924.3
(Alaska Railroad Moose Gooser, Fur Rondy, 1952) [man dressed as robber being ejected from train while acting out scene on the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, locomotive 1050, during Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.004.189
Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson and others with Rosa Parks [Rosa Parks next to Ed Wesley in bowtie. NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Rosa Parks, M. Ashley Dickerson, NAACP, Black is Brilliant, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.1881.1
(Fur Rendezvous, clowns at train) [two men dressed as Keystone Kops, one man dressed as robber, and train engineer acting out scene next to the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, locomotive 1050, with onlookers, 1952?]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1970.028.018
Eskimo dance, Lomen Bros. Nome #3, This Eskimo is acting out a story in a dance. Notice the queer flat drums [Men with skin drums are seated against a boat while another man in furs is dancing. Man and children are watching]
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1989.016.1924.5
(Alaska Railroad Moose Gooser, Fur Rondy, 1952) [man dressed as robber choking a boy carrying ice skates while acting out scene near the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, spectators visible in background, Fur Rendezvous, Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1924.1
(Alaska Railroad Moose Gooser, Fur Rondy, 1952) [two men dressed as Keystone Kops, one man dressed as robber, and train engineer acting out scene next to the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, locomotive 1050, with onlookers, during Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage. Cf. 1881.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection