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B2022.001.045
Print advertisement, To Overcome we must CHANGE the MINDSET and SUPPORT OUR BUSINESSES
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Print, Ad, Advert, Advertisement, Flier, Overcome, Business, Support, E&S Diversified Services, Mayfield's Quality Cleaners
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.146
Print advertisement featuring Mayfield Evans, National Bank of Alaska
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Printer, Advertisement, Ad, Advert, National Bank of Alaska, Business Loans, Better Business, Business
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1989.016.2041.1
[text of advertisement, "Da-Lite Beaded Screens for movies slides $995 30x40 on stand"]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2041.2
[text of advertisement, "Da-Lite Beaded Screens for movies slides $995 30x40 on stand"]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.027.2.407
Andrew & Saturday Evening Post ads [close-up of magazine advertisements on wall]
Collection: B1998.027 Watrous / B1998_027 Watrous Nitrate negs
B1993.020.368
Fur auctions, Rendezvous, 1956 [pelts with handwritten sign: Guaranteed as Advertised, Swifty’s Club 13]
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1989.016.2055.7
7 (July 4, 1938, parade) [men on horseback, horse-drawn wagon, and truck carrying logs assembled on field, possibly baseball field, with advertisements along back wall, truck with banner advertising a sawmill]
Keywords: businesses, animal husbandry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2190
[photograph of print advertisement, "National Bank of Alaska on November First becomes National Bank of Alaska in Anchorage"...]
Keywords: banking, banks
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.27
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [man driving automobile with American flags and banners advertising New Nash Convertible Models]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1940.6
(Fur Rondy, 1951) [Fur Rendezvous parade float for the Northern Commercial Co., with "Malemute Emporium" with signs advertising the Trapper's Ball]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.4555.jpg
Joe Redington Sr. with young boy holding sign "Go Joe!" standing on back of dog truck with Chuck Wagon advertisement.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B2006.023.4555
Joe Redington Sr. with young boy holding sign "Go Joe!" standing on back of dog truck with Chuck Wagon advertisement.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1983.091.S1644.3
('55 Little League Teams)(Boys and coaches)[portrait of little league team "local 367" with coach posing in front of score board with coca cola advertising]
Keywords: recreation, youth, baseball
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2103.2
(Clark Anderson & Co.) [Clark Andresen? two men standing outside store with window advertisement for Old Mr. Boston Sloe Gin]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2103.3
(Clark Anderson & Co.) [Clark Andresen? two men standing outside store with window advertisement for Old Mr. Boston Sloe Gin]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1929.3
(Fur Rondy 1950) [crowd of spectators gathered in baseball field on C Street in Anchorage, advertising signs and houses behind park, Chugach Mountains in distance, Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1929.5
(Fur Rondy 1950) [crowd of spectators gathered in baseball field on C Street in Anchorage, advertising signs and houses behind park, Chugach Mountains in distance, Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2048.1
[musher with bib #8 racing 9-dog team along snowy trail, basket with advertisement for Surechamp Feed and Alaskan Kennels, Chugach Mountains in background, Anchorage Fur Rendezvous?]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.070.05
Anchorage, 1951 [1953? Man in red suit leading elephants carrying costumed women, some bearing paper advertisements including one reading “Hunter Bar,” building visible in background]
Collection: B2013.070
B1989.016.1929.4
(Fur Rondy 1950) [crowd of spectators watching drummers and dancers performing, baseball field on C Street in Anchorage, advertising signs and houses behind park, Chugach Mountains in distance, Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.007.15b
April 23 [Bird’s eye view of Anchorage from Westward Hotel looking southwest. With 4th Avenue Theatre advertising “The Incredible Mr. Limpet” at left, Holy Family Cathedral in center, Turnagain in distance]
Collection: B2017.007
B1989.016.1929.2
(Fur Rondy 1950) [crowd of spectators watching drummers and dancers preparing to perform, baseball field on C Street in Anchorage, advertising signs and houses behind park, Chugach Mountains in distance, Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.070.09
Anchorage, 1951 [1953? Man in red suit leading elephants carrying costumed women, some bearing paper advertisements including one reading “Hunter Bar,” buildings visible in background, Providence Hospital in distance?]
Collection: B2013.070
B1963.016.173
[The Hub of Alaska drawing of Anchorage]
Keywords: brochure, advertisement
Collection: B1963.016 Marie Silverman
B2009.017.2002.09.22
“Clutter? That’s Anchorage landscaping!” ©2002 9-22 [neon signs]
Keywords: businesses, advertising
Collection: B2009.017
B2013.076.5
[flight crew loading bedrolls and other supplies onto sled outside building with sign “General Merchandise, Teller Post Office,” man at right probably proprietor, snowshoes propped against wall at right, Hills Bros. Coffee advertisement on wall at left]
Collection: B2013.076
B1989.016.2055.39
39 (July 4, 1938, parade) [three women with swords and boat on Alaska Transfer Co. truck festooned with flags and bunting, truck parked in baseball field with advertisements on boards visible in background, parked next to The Baby Shop float. cf. 2055.27]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2230.1
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Anchorage Hockey League, 1936, Rod Johnson, George Karabelinkov, Joe Morino) [group portrait of hockey team with striped socks and sweaters labeled "Anchorage" on outdoor ice rink, advertisements on boards in background, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2230.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Anchorage Hockey League, 1936, Rod Johnson, George Karabelinkov, Joe Morino) [group portrait of hockey team with striped socks and sweaters labeled "Anchorage" on outdoor ice rink, advertisements on boards in background, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2230.3
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Anchorage Hockey League, 1936, Rod Johnson, George Karabelinkov, Joe Morino) [group portrait of hockey team with striped socks and sweaters labeled "Anchorage" on outdoor ice rink, advertisements on boards in background, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2230.4
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Anchorage Hockey League, 1936, Rod Johnson, George Karabelinkov, Joe Morino) [group portrait of hockey team with striped socks and sweaters labeled "Anchorage" on outdoor ice rink, advertisements on boards in background, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.005.56
Frank Pratt, Jack Wade, Alaska [man sitting inside cabin on bear fur draped over armchair, books lining shelves, magazine advertisements pasted to walls, cans from Hills Bros. coffee, radio and hurricane lamp at left, Roycroft symbol on box behind lamp]
Collection: B2018.005
B1989.016.2053.21
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932) [young man in open automobile flying American flag, with slogans "Peterson Open Air Taxi," "You drive," " and "You drive it system" written on exterior, carrying chalkboard advertising Peterson Open Air Taxi, building in background]
Keywords: businesses, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1581
(T11 Valdez, Alaska) [street scene, people on sidewalk. Businesses: Gilson's, Burch's, Gilson's delivery truck, automobiles, sign in Burch's door advertising July 3 dance and July 4 (illegible) event, flags, streamers, steel drums (containers), dirt roads, water, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1996.035.10.3.page.16b
[four-page tabloid newspaper reprint about Bikini Atoll nuclear tests: “Clippings Taken From The Honolulu Advertiser, 3 Feb & 1 March 1946 Pertaining to “A” Bomb Test Of Which You Are A Part . . . , handwritten note on first page that “Cot sent this to me” back page is taped down]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.16a
[Cover of four-page tabloid newspaper reprint about Bikini Atoll nuclear tests: “Clippings Taken From The Honolulu Advertiser, 3 Feb & 1 March 1946 Pertaining to “A” Bomb Test Of Which You Are A Part . . . , handwritten note on first page that “Cot sent this to me” back page is taped down]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.16c
[four-page tabloid newspaper reprint about Bikini Atoll nuclear tests: “Clippings Taken From The Honolulu Advertiser, 3 Feb & 1 March 1946 Pertaining to “A” Bomb Test Of Which You Are A Part . . . , handwritten note on third page that reads “we are about here on the X”; back page is taped down]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1998.014.1.404
B114 Anchorage Bus depot [City bus terminal for Matanuska Valley Lines, Anchorage City Transit; men standing outside terminal; posters advertising July 7 Bailey Bros. & Cristiani 3-ring circus; posters for "Glass & Glazing; Stooky Glass Co. on Post Road; bicycle; crowd of people outisde Monty's Furniture & Clothing store]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.67.001
25-2; tourist taking pictures [Mission Street Ketchikan street scene with man in center of plank street taking photographs; Ingersoll Hotel at left; "Welcome Visitors" sign spanning street; woman standing near Marine Hotel at right; store at far right with sign advertising Alaska Sportsman, scale and ball near entrance; automobiles, one with plate B43; looking inland from near docks; likely 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.67.001
25-2; tourist taking pictures [Mission Street Ketchikan street scene with man in center of plank street taking photographs; Ingersoll Hotel at left; "Welcome Visitors" sign spanning street; woman standing near Marine Hotel at right; store at far right with sign advertising Alaska Sportsman, scale and ball near entrance; automobiles, one with plate B43; looking inland from near docks; likely 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1943
(T185 Anchorage blanket toss @ ball park; postcard 1946) [winter scene, men, women, children in snow; person wearing parka aloft; scoreboard; advertisements on fence: Polar Bar, Arctic Office Macine Co, Northern Neon Corp, Al Fox's D and D Sports Center, Union Oil Company, Murmac Lounge, City Bank, Anchorage Realty Co. Rainier Beer, Sicks' Select Beer, Silver Dollar Loan Co.; McKinley Tower in distance; structures, domiciles in midground; automobiles; possibly located at 6th Avenue and C Street; lawn adjoining Anchorage Museum in 2018]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1642
T35 Brickley, Anchorage - Alaska (4th Ave. 1948 postcard 300 - 3 1 print; 2 negs) [street scene looking west from center of gravel street with puddles; people walking, automobiles, businesses: City Hotel, with Coca Cola advertisement, Mike’s Cocktail Bar, Matanuska Valley Bus Line Depot, North Star Liquor Store, Hotel Travler, Brass Rail Bar and Café, Machine Shop Gunsmithing, Lunch Room, Cleaners, Hotel Lane, Café, Pay ‘n Takit Meats Groceries, The Village Bar, Anchorage Checker Cab, Custom Leather Shop, Big Dipper, Anchorage Dairy, Liquor store, Union Steam Bath & Rooms, New York Sandwich Shop, Bar and Café, Schodde’s, Quality Grocery & Market Delicatessen, Grasser’s Hardware, Bus Terminal; Possibly unfinished 4th Avenue Theatre under construction in left distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley