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B1999.014..628
(people)[man smoking a cigarette and pointing to a pin-up girl poster]
Keywords: pin-up, poster
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B2022.001.098
Poster from students at Mountain View Elementary School
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, E&S Diversified Enterprises, Mountain View Elementary School, School, Poster, Student, Project, Craft, Business Partner, Community, Appreciation
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2021.004.304
Poster promoting Solidarity Week, July 12-20 [Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Solidarity Week, July 12-20, Alaska Black Caucus, Mr. Louis Martin, Ms. Rosalind Cash, Dr. Calvin Rolark, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1985.027.0520
Originally in B2 F33. Wien Airlines 1963 poster. 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B2001.036.1348
"Waiting in Clinic" Quinhagak 10-82 [children, women, elder, rabies poster on wall]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B2022.001.148
Poster, “Wanted Wet & Cold,” undated [poster promoting Mayfield Evans participating in Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center’s fundraising dunk tank at Family Fun Fitness Fair, Fairview Lion’s Park]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Poster, Wanted Poster, Wanted Wet & Cold, Dunk tank, Promotion, Promoting, Anchorage, Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, Fundraising, Fundraiser, Family Fun Fitness Fair, Fariview Lion's Park
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1989.016.1129
[4th Avenue Theater under construction, with posters for Empress Theatre showings in foreground, Fourth Avenue, Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
Glowing edge and posterize
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Science
B1989.016.896
P-502. Hewitt's Photo (Health Fair Display, Valley) [booth with table, chair, and American Red Cross posters, Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.2574
Nome, August 1961 [street scene of men operating fire hose in middle of street; boardwalk and Nomerama Theatre in background; poster for "The Gazebo"]
Collection: B2017.024
B2022.001.025
Mayfield Evans in his office, E&S Diversified Services, 2002 [Mayfield Evans in his office at E&S Diversified Services with his collection of Alaska Railroad posters]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Office, Business, E&S Diversified Services, Awards, Collection, Alaska Railroad posters, Decor
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1989.016.2039.1
(Elmendorf, 1940) [man in Army uniform and woman in fur parka looking at poster, "Let's All Back the Attack! 4th War Loan," with painting by Rusty Heurlin]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.414
B122 Post Office at Seward, Alaska [automobiles, person changing a tire on automobiles; man walking; pickup truck with camper top; bicycles; recruiting poster]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.011.74
735. Photo by E. Wolf, Juneau, Alaska [Alaska Native women selling crafts along street, Abbott & Costello movie poster in background]
Keywords: tourism, arts
Collection: B2015.011
B1998.014.1.1513
S80 At Fort Richardson (Theatre #2) [Post Theatre 2; quonset, entrance, movie posters, Chugach Mountains in distance possibly wih termination dust; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.314
B62 Elmendort Field (Post theatre [sic] Chugach) [men sitting on concrete steps outside; men sitting inside, door propped open blocking movie poster]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2000.013A.s7.005
[meeting scene; men seated at table; papers; cofffee; ashtray; tape recorder; "Improving Alaska's tomorrow: Multiethnic education today" written on chalkboard; art poster at left]
Collection: B2000.013A
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
B1990.014.5.Sp.7.003
2 1971 54 41030; Sp; Kids in ski lodge; 29 February 1954 [interior scene with banches, ski posters; warming stove; milk cans at lower right; note that there was no February 29 in 1954]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Sports
B1998.014.1.1446
S33 In-door sports, Aleutian Islands (4 in 1 pic) [service men at a card game; in bed; writing a letter, in a bar, barstools, cups, pinup posters, beer, cigars, coffee cups, Schlitz bottle.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1834
{T129 Fairbanks (at 2nd & Cushman)} [street scene is actually at 2nd and Lacey Street; Bank of Fairbanks; Lacey Street Theatre; movie posters for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Cariboo Trail (1950); automobiles, man, ladder]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1712
T65 Kodiak, Alaska [street scene, two women and boy walk in middle of street with baby carriage, automobiles parked in street, boardwalks, businesses: Ships Tavern, bars, possibly movie theater poster, Woodlinger Drugs, Northland Photo Shop, Victory Cafe, Cub Cab, Kodiak Jewelry Co, ice cream; two sailors walk down boardwalk,; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1831
T128 2nd & Lacey Streets, Fairbanks, Alaska [street scene; man walking at right; bicycles parked on sidewalk; automobiles; businesses: Lacey Street Theatre with movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released 1949), Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs; flags hanging over street]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1829
T127 2nd Ave, Fairbanks, Alaska [Street scene; people on sidewalks; automobiles, businesses: Maddux Jeweler, Alaska, Pan American World Airways, Kayes, Curios, Café, Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs, Wyman’s, Café, Model Café; movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released in 1949); flags hanging over street; smoke stacks in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2000.013A.s7.005
[meeting scene; men seated at table, identified in 2/10/1978 newletter as the board of CMC at a three day meeting in January of 1978 "Shown here (going around the table from the far end): Present Paul Albert, Sam Weston and Dale Smith of Mekoryuk, Stanley Anthony of Nighmute, Paul Charles of Newtok and Wilson Jerue, CMC comptroller"; papers; cofffee; ashtray; tape recorder; "Improving Alaska's tomorrow: Multiethnic education today" written on chalkboard; art poster at left]
Collection: B2000.013A
B1998.014.1.1833
{T129 Fairbanks (at 2nd & Cushman)} [actually this is the intersection of 2nd and Lacey Street; people crossing street, men, women on sidewalk; automobiles; bicycles; flags strung over street; businesses: Lacey Street Theatre, Peerless Coffee Shop, Lucille’s Apparel, Daily News Miner, Monsey’s Pantorium Cleaners, Wien Alaska Airlines, Liquor, Drugs, Wyman’s, Café, Model Café; movie poster for Sands of Iwo Jima (released in 1949); smoke stacks; man climbing on outside of delivery truck]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1290
(O85 Anchorage Circus, July 8, 1954) [parade scene looking west down 4th Avenue; truck with Cristiani & Bailey Bros. Circus; automobiles, circus cannon, women riding elephants; spectators - women, men, children - on streets and rooftops; businesses: Piggly Wiggly grocery, Rose Florists shop, Theresa, Alaskan Printing: Stationers and Publishing Co. 819 4th Ave., Two Sisters, Sunshine Market, Carol's Dress shop, furs, Alaska Fur Factory, Chevron Gas Station, 4th Avenue Beauty Salon, Radio, White House, Columbia Lumber, Schorn Paints; Milke Way frozen custard - fountain MI. Long Coneys, chili; Paddock Paint & Furniture; Dutch Boy Paints; B&B Liquor Store; Club 25; Hotel; circus posters in store windows; stoplight]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley