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B2016.019.1.03c.06594.03
Exterior view of the Anchorage Center for the Performing Arts [Anchorage - Buildings - Performing Arts Center (PAC)], 1988
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Buildings, Anchorage Center for the Performing Arts, Performing Arts Center, PAC
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.1.03d.06777.18
Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Main 2100 seat theater [Anchorage - Buildings - Performing Arts Center (PAC)], 1988
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Performing Arts Center, PAC, Theaters
Collection: B2016.019
B2013.074.769
[man showing an architectual model of the Performing Arts Center]
Keywords: architecture
Collection: B2013.074
B2016.019.1.11d.02072.16
Bluegrass festival KSKA July 1980 [Performances], 1980
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Performances, KSKA, Bluegrass festival, Musicians
Collection: B2016.019
B1995.010.529
[women performing on elephants in outdoor circus ring, Anchorage, 1954]
Collection: B1995.010
B2009.017.1986.10.12
Curtain raising at the Performing Arts Center (Sunday Oct 12, 1986)
Keywords: cartoon, Anchorage Daily News
Collection: B2009.017
B2013.074.768
[architect showing off model of the proposed Performing Arts Center, Anchorage, 1970s?]
Collection: B2013.074
B2016.010.370
[King Island dancers performing indoors, Nome; print date Sep 78]
Collection: B2016.010
B2016.010.372
[King Island dancers performing indoors, Nome; print date Sep 78]
Collection: B2016.010
B2016.010.373
[King Island dancers performing indoors, Nome; print date Sep 78]
Collection: B2016.010
B2016.019.1.11d.02739.36
Alaska Rep [Alaska Repertory Theatre] - xmas [Christmas] card, [Performances], 1981
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Performances, Alaska Repertory Theatre
Collection: B2016.019
B2019.003.100
Same [students wearing uniforms and holding hoops performing dance next to May pole]
Collection: B2019.003
B2022.005.145
[Crowd watching Indigenous Alaskan cultural performance; People dancing, seated drummers in background. Likely Inupiaq]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Inupiaq, Inupiat, Territory, Performance, Culture, Dance, Dancing, Song, Music, Drums, Drum, Drummers, Musical instrument
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.182
[Crowd watching Indigenous Alaskan cultural performance; Woman dancing with seated drummers in background. Likely Inupiaq]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Inupiaq, Inupiat, Territory, Performance, Culture, Dance, Dancing, Song, Music, Drums, Drum, Drummers, Musical instrument
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.183
[Crowd watching Indigenous Alaskan cultural performance; Woman dancing with seated drummers in background. Likely Inupiaq]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Inupiaq, Inupiat, Territory, Performance, Culture, Dance, Dancing, Song, Music, Drums, Drum, Drummers, Musical instrument
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.211
[Crowd watching Indigenous Alaskan cultural performance; Women dancing with seated drummers in background. Likely Inupiaq]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Inupiaq, Inupiat, Territory, Performance, Culture, Dance, Dancing, Song, Music, Drums, Drum, Drummers, Musical instrument
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.212
[Crowd watching Indigenous Alaskan cultural performance; Women dancing with seated drummers in background. Likely Inupiaq]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Inupiaq, Inupiat, Territory, Performance, Culture, Dance, Dancing, Song, Music, Drums, Drum, Drummers, Musical instrument
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2016.010.371
[King Island dancer wearing walrus mask performing indoors, Nome; print date Sep 78]
Collection: B2016.010
B2016.019.1.02a.11775.06
Tlingit Dancers Performing @ Beaver Clan House Saxman AK [Alaskan Indigenous People], 1996
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Indigenous Alaskans, Tlingit, Beaver Clan, Saxman, Regalia
Collection: B2016.019
B2019.003.099
Small girls buttercup drill [students wearing uniforms and holding hoops performing dance next to May pole]
Collection: B2019.003
B1962.x.022.1
Frank Morgan Photo, Box 199, Anchorage, Alaska [Eskimo students performing Messenger Dance in school room]
Collection: B1962.x_022 CIHS Morgan
B2022.001.111
Contractor Performance Evaluation, MacDill Air Force Base, signed by Darnell E. Folks, July 31, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Company, Contractor, Contract, Performance Evaluation, Performance, Evaluation, MacDill Air Force Base, MacDill, Air Force, USAF, Air Force Base, AFB, Excellent, Excellence, Darnell E. Folks, Darnell Folks
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.002.20
Cal Williams performing at Pacific Islanders event, Park Strip, Anchorage, 2018 [Cal wearing blue robe and kente cloth hat, playing djembe] Handwritten note on back of photograph: 2018 performing at Pacific Islanders event on the Anchorage Park Strip in 2018
Keywords: Cal Williams
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1998.014.1.1288
Circus comes to Anchorage (O85 July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus, aerialists, trapeze performers, ladders, equipment in foreground; musicians performing in background; spectators looking over fence at McAllister Signs, D & D Lounge, Liquor Store in left bakcground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1963.x.010
Copper River Indians of Athapaskan stock performing tribal ceremonies welcoming dance at Matanuska Valley Fair, 5 Sept 1955
Collection: B1963.x_010
B1989.016.2128.3
(Bowden and Bowden and ?, Feb. 22, 1962) [studio portrait of performers, three men in vests and bowties holding bowler hats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2128.4
(Bowden and Bowden and ?, Feb. 22, 1962) [studio portrait of performers, three men in vests and bowties holding bowler hats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2128.5
(Bowden and Bowden and ?, Feb. 22, 1962) [studio portrait of performers, three men in vests and bowties holding bowler hats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2128.6
(Bowden and Bowden and ?, Feb. 22, 1962) [studio portrait of performers, three men in vests and bowties holding bowler hats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2128.7
(Bowden and Bowden and ?, Feb. 22, 1962) [studio portrait of performers, three men in vests and bowties holding bowler hats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.029.2000
[three men wearing Yup’ik headdresses and holding dance sticks performing on small stage in gymnasium; print date Feb 77]
Collection: B2017.029
B1989.016.434
34. Eskimo dance, Eklutna [possbly box dance, or Messenger Feast, being performed outdoors by men and women with headdresses and fur parkas]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1996.035.8.7.60
Western Night, Hail & Farewell, June 1968, Gary Wade & John Drainer [musicians performing on stage, Adak club]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B2017.029.1822
[King Island Eskimo Dancers performing on stage, men and women dancing, woman at center with chin tattooing; print date Nov 67]
Collection: B2017.029
B1997.019.21full
open water to help hual in the whale, the performance being made safe by the charm birds wrapped in seal fat & suspended over the carcass of the whale
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B2017.029.1821
Nome dancers [King Island Eskimo Dancers performing on stage, four young girls wearing print parkas and headscarves; print date Nov 67]
Collection: B2017.029
B1997.019.21
open water to help haul in the whale. The performance being made safe by two charm birds wrapped in Seal Fat & suspended over the carcass of the whale
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1998.014.1.1479
S49 Intertaining [sic] troops at Elmendorf Field (Entertaining, Edgar Bergen) [Charlie McCarthy, ventriloquist, dummy, microphone, outdoor performance likely in bed of truck; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2014.019.464
Alaska Eskimo dance, Nome. c. Robinson Studio, Anchorage [two dancers wearing masks performing outdoors on snow, one holding dance fans, possibly Yupik]
Keywords: clothing, dancing
Collection: B2014.019
B2017.029.2972
[Savoonga Comedy Dancers performing on lawn, woman wearing black-and-white bodysuit with fur trim standing on blanket, Native Spirit Festival; print date Jun 84]
Collection: B2017.029
B2022.001.115A
Letter and Contractor Performance Evaluation, to E&S Diversified Services from Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, signed by Darnell E. Folks, July 31, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Letter, Contractor, Contract, Performance Evaluation, Performance, Evaluation, Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, AFB, Air Force Base, Air Force, USAF, Report, Darnell E. Folks, Darnell Folks, Contracting Officer
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.115.pg1
Letter and Contractor Performance Evaluation, to E&S Diversified Services from Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, signed by Darnell E. Folks, July 31, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Letter, Contractor, Contract, Performance Evaluation, Performance, Evaluation, Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, AFB, Air Force Base, Air Force, USAF, Report, Darnell E. Folks, Darnell Folks, Contracting Officer
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.001.115.pg2
Letter and Contractor Performance Evaluation, to E&S Diversified Services from Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, signed by Darnell E. Folks, July 31, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Letter, Contractor, Contract, Performance Evaluation, Performance, Evaluation, Department of Defense, Defense Commissary Agency, Virginia Beach, Virginia, AFB, Air Force Base, Air Force, USAF, Report, Darnell E. Folks, Darnell Folks, Contracting Officer
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
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
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
B1998.014.1.1291
(O85 Anchorage Circus, July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus; elephants, performers, springboard, man jumping over elephant, net, cannon, trapeze, D & D Lounge; McAllister Signs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.1049
Jan71P7 #16034 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing green, fur trimmed parka, white mukluks dances; hand of second dancer seen at left. At AFN 2022, individual identified as ? Kogak of Wainwright performing a Point Hope dance]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Point Hope, Dancing, Parka
Collection: B2017.024