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B2017.017.193
[view of village with turned earth for garden and picket fence in foreground]
Collection: B2017.017
B2022.001.047
E&S Diversified Services employee, center, receiving award from corporate engineers, Charlie Clayton, left, Mayfield Evans, right [Note on back: 4-1999]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Employee, Award, Corporate, Engineers, Charlie Clayton, Uniform, Event, Function, Applause, Presentation, Recognition
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.048
Mayfield Evans with Mayfield’s Quality Cleaners employee at Mayfield’s Quality Cleaners on DeBarr Road
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Mayfield's Quality Cleaners, Employee, Staff, DeBarr Road, Anchorage, Business, Equipment, Machinery
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
b2012.006.427
[view along shoreline, boat in foreground, church in distance; print date Sep 58]
Collection: B2012.006
B2017.024.2694
Nome street scene, July 1983 [four young people - one holding a hammer - stand in back of flatbed truck with NEC on driver's door; driver and passenger in front seat]
Collection: B2017.024
B1994.022.760
(Fairbanks, Alaska)[NC CO. building and the Chena River]
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2015.008.1314.t37
T37 [view across glacier to valley glacier and nunatak, showing crevasses]
Keywords: mountain, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1314.t37crop
T37 [view across glacier to valley glacier and nunatak, showing crevasses]
Keywords: mountain, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
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
B2022.001.128
Certificate of Appreciation, Dedicated Community Supporter, presented to Mayfield Evans, signed by Doris J. Ross, Principal, Mountain View Elementary, 1998-1999
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Certificate, Certificate of Appreciation, Dedicated Community Supporter, Community, Supporter, Doris J. Ross, Doris Ross, Mountain View Elementary, School
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.145A
Letter and enclosure to E&S Diversified Services from State of Alaska Department of Labor, Administrative Services Division, signed by Holly Stinson, Labor Economist, April 21, 1993
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Letter, Enclosure, E&S Diversified Services, State of Alaska, SOA< Department of Labor, DOL, Administrative Services Division, Holly Stinson
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1983.091.S1450.074
NCL Trip: Children receiving candy & gum. 8/12/53. Northern Consolidated Airlines [pilot Jimmy Hoffman near river at Eek; possibly fish drying in left background; structure; boats in river in background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.2018.1.152.001
50-2; Cove on Pennock Island [view of boats at shore, structures; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.152.002
50-2 Basha against log on Pennock Is. Ketchikan in background; yellow filter [likely summer 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.010.3300
[four Alaska Native girls and young boy sitting on driftwood log on beach, one girl wearing Naknek t-shirt, girls chewing gum]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.2270.1
(Road construction) [distant view of heavy equipment on large cleared parcel]
Keywords: roads, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.238.005
73-2 [Sitka September 1941; view of boats at piers; pilings; structures]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.238.006
73-2 [Sitka September 1941; view of boats at piers; pilings; structures]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2055.6
6 (July 4, 1938, parade) [bear cub on log pile]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2473
"Ground; 5/30/46" [aerial view of snow, possibly ice, shoreline; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.18.006
5-2 Bear at Saxman [Grizzly Bear Monument near road; totem; structure, ladder, and pole in background; 1939?; similar to 6.005]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2000.003.bittner.4
Catherine, Harry, and Bill Bittner, Lake Spenard, 1919 [from Legends & Legacies by Bagoy]
Keywords: Anchorage, recreation
Collection: B2000.003
B1989.016.2056.33
(1941 Fur Rondy parade, KFQD Radio) [children on KFQD float, Fur Rendezvous parade, with decoration reading "We Are Ice Worms, Are You? 3000 ft straight down"]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.18.006
5-2 Bear at Saxman [Grizzly Bear Monument near road; totem; structure, ladder, and pole in background; 1939?; similar to 6.005]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2019.007.259
Kokhanok, May 16, 1994 [Two boys with bicycles; structure, logs, and steel drums (containers) in background]
Collection: B2019.007
B2021.002.005
In the middle in hat, Randal Fleming, 4 years old, Anchorage, 1965 [with friends at a picnic in a park.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Randal Fleming, Anchorage, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1995.010.3261
[Steve McCutcheon handing out balloons to large group of Alaska Native children, Kaltag?]
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.024.3351
November 1969 Northern Alaska [aerial view of sea ice, coastal village, river]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3352
June 1971, Northern Alaska [men, women, children gathered on tarmac near Wien Consolidated Boeing 737 N4906; man carrying luggage]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3353
Northern Alaska, June 1971 [men inspecitng dead walrus while young man poses with gun, likely St Lawrence Island]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.767.5
P-421. [aerial of farm and homestead near Palmer, circa 1936?]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.152.003
50-2 Basha against log on Pennock Is. Ketchikan in background; yellow filter [likely summer 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.152.004
50-2 Basha against log on Pennock Is. Ketchikan in background; yellow filter [likely summer 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1991.011.1219
Point Hope, winter 1957 [three children wearing parkas with hoods pose on snow in front of structures; bell atop structure, possibly a school]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1995.010.3281
[man and two Alaska Native woman cleaning salmon on table, two children standing at right, Paimiut]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.2056.31
Hewitt's 31 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army truck) [military automobiles, trucks, and heavy gun in Fur Rendezvous parade headed west on Fourth Avenue, passing spectators and businesses including Northern Commercial Co., U.G. Crocker, Alaska Storage, Richmond's Restaurant]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection