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B1986.096.policepeople02
Police, people. 1965
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1986.096.policepeople05
Police, people. [Polaroid]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B2021.004.Box6.Page3b
"Police chief to discuss minorities"
Keywords: History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1986.096.238
[Police people. 2 1/4 transparency. Police raising flag at City Hall, Anchorage, 1960s]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1986.096.policepeople01
Police, people. Ward Wells Neg No. 8315-14
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.12
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Ketchikan Fire){firemen and police on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, accident, fire, fireman, totempole
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.13
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Ketchikan Fire){firemen and police on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fireman, fire, accident
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.16
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Ketchikan Fire){firemen and police on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fireman, fire, accident, totempole
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.11
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Firemen check oxygen){firemen and police on scene of burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fireman, fire, accident
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1998.014.1.380
B94 Seward Police & fire hall [person walking, bell, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1986.096.policepeople08
Patrolman Roger Knapp with radar speed meter, 10 Dec 62 [Police people. Police officer standing next to patrol car holding radar gun at night, Anchorage]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1998.014.1.426
B129 Seward City Hall & Police Station [automobiles, structures to left, sidewalk]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.004.248
Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, Police Chief, Brian Porter, NAACP, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.249
Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, Police Chief, Brian Porter, NAACP, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.250
Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, Police Chief, Brian Porter, NAACP, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.93
Military portraits and photographs, and ephemera [Ed Wesley, Military Police, Fort Greely, Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Military, Police, Soldier, Portrait, Fort Greely, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page12
"Police, minorities agree to work together" 8/6/1981; .268-270 [Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage, NAACP, Bob Hughes, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2009.017.2003.10.25
“Anchorage police ranks are thin […]”©2003 10-25 [local service cuts are ‘closing the Urban/Rural Divide’]
Collection: B2009.017
B2017.023.162
City Hall Haines, Alaska (C) 43 Ordway, Civilian travel control; Military police [buildings]
Collection: B2017.023
B2017.024.2557
Nome, July 1961 [man seated in State Police vehicle with dog leaning out driver's window]
Collection: B2017.024
B1986.096.246
Police, people. School crossing guard Gertrude Billings, 15th & E St. December 5, 1962
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.10
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Ketchikan Fire_Firemen lower body from rooof to ground){firemen and police on scene actively lowering body from burning building}
Keywords: catastrophe, fire, accident, fireman, policeman
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.18
(catastrophe)(September 4 1966)(Ketchikan Fire){firemen and police on scene of burning building}{man comforting a woman walking towards the burning building }
Keywords: catastrophe, accident, fireman, fire
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2021.004.95.back
Military portraits and photographs, and ephemera. "Edward Patroling [sic] The Gate of Fort Greely" [Ed Wesley, Military Police, Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Postcard, Military Police, Patrol, Fort Greely, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.269
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.95
Military portraits and photographs, and ephemera. Caption on verso: "Edward Patroling [sic] The Gate of Fort Greely" [Ed Wesley, Military Police, Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Military, Police, Soldier, Patrol, Fort Greely, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page1
"Porter faces NAACP questioning" 3/14/1980; .248-250 [Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, Brian Porter, Anchorage, Police Chief
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2000.012.007
Ellen on decorated bike 1st prize Marshal's office & Jail where P O was Chief of Police Municipal Bldg 4th of July Anchorage Alaska
Collection: B2000.012
B1998.014.1.1868
T138 Anchorage City Hall (Fire station, log cabin) [4th Avenue and F Street, people walking on sidewalk, automobiles, Police Dept motorcycle, fence]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.004.270
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief [Ed Wesley on left]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1986.096.policebldgs01
PS Bldg dedication, 31 Aug 61 [Police buildings. Men in uniform lined up outside of Public Safety building, fire trucks under cover in background]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B2021.004.268
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief [Ed Wesley second from left]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.2184.2
13. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #3 leading nine-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue, with spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.3
14. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #5 leading nine-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue, with spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.4
15. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #8 leading six-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue, with spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.6
17. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #9 leading seven-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue, with spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.7
18. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #10 leading nine-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue, with spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.8
19. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, musher with bib #11 leading nine-dog team, possibly on Cordova near Fourth Avenue, with spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2184.1
12. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, female musher with bib #2 leading seven-dog team down Fourth Avenue at E Street past spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.304.006
90-2 Nome [April 1943; Pan X; view looking down snowy street with tire ruts; structures under construction at right; sign "Military Police Post; Stop" on guardhouse; people in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.428
Same as .427 [wording on envelope reads: "B129 Seward City Hall & Police Station," Bank Block building, First National Bank of Anchorage; Renwald Hotel, other businesses; people with bicycles; automobiles, traffic signal]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2745
Nome, July 1983 Street scenes [exterior view of police officer and man wearing plaid jacket outside the Board of Trade Saloon; Nome's Oldest Saloon since 1900; Headquarters for the Sin City of Nome; Olympia Beer Finish banner with handwritten correction]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.427
T200 Seward Bank & Theater, Marathon Mountain in background. [wording on envelope reads: "B129 Seward City Hall & Police Station, Bank & Theatre." Bank Block building, First National Bank of Anchorage; Renwald Hotel, other businesses; people with bicycles; automobiles, traffic signal]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1621
T27 Anchorage - Alaska [street scene at 4th and E Street; men, women walking on sidewalks, automobiles, army jeeps, Military Police jeep, businesses: airline office, Beyers & Pfeil Building, Rexall Drugs, fountain lunches, Eastman dealers, curios, Cheechako Tavern, Gray Cab, Eggemann Bldg., Alaska Airlines, jeweler, Anchorage Grill, Anchorage Photo Supply, liquor store, 1940s]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley