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B2021.006.03
Kenneth Card, Larry Card II, Minnie Card, Judge Larry Card, Krista Card [Card family at post-installation reception]
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Kenneth Card, Larry Card II, Minnie Card, Krista Card, Family, Reception
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2021.004.164
Note on back: “Edward & Fran Xmas 1975”
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Fran Wesley, Christmas, Party, Celebration, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2000.014.807
(807)(Nezeku Rarreys Harry and Lena Kokrines June 20 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B2021.002.064.Back
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2021.004.Box6.Page8a
"NAACP representative suggests Alaskans look for local benefits" 5/15/1981
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage, Virna Canson, NAACP
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.DreghornLB.1
[Dreghorn LB Passport Photos 1935-36]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2021.002.009
Doc Quarles, Theresa Quarles [on New Year's Eve.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1995.014.54.12
Auction sale after a town member's death, Fort Yukon, 1934 [white and Athabascan men and women standing outdoors, trapper Bill O'Brien at right, woman in center wearing Athabascan-style beaded baby belt, Yukon River in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B2021.006.24
Virginia Card Smith [Card's sister] at evening reception for Judge Larry Card at Captain Cook Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska, 1993 October 1
Keywords: BIPOC, BPOC, HistoryMakers, History Makers, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, Judge Larry Card, Larry Card, Judge Card, Anchorage, Reception, Virginia Card Smith, Sister, Family, Captain Cook Hotel, Hotel
Collection: B2021.006 Judge Larry Card Collection
B2017.029.1647
[group of children posed on beach, some holding balloons, cemetery on bluff above left; print date Sep 76]
Collection: B2017.029
B1989.016.1125.6
Bishop Mtn., Yukon River (CAA Airfields Surveys, copied Apr. 7, 1941) [aerial, with markings. copy neg]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1125.7
Bishop Mtn., Yukon River, Bishop Slough (CAA Airfields Surveys, copied Apr. 7, 1941) [aerial, with markings. copy neg]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.004.16.22
Barrow 5180 [children riding bikes on snow]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2016.004
B2022.001.002
Left to right: Jacqueline [Jackie] Evans, Barry Evans, Melphine Evans, 1974 [studio portrait]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Families, Family, Jacqueline Evans, Jackie Evans, Barry Evans, Melphine Evans, Studio, Portrait
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2021.002.029
Samuel Fleming, Ladd Air Force Base, early 1950's [at his desk as avionics technician responsible for repairing airplane radios.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Fairbanks, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990, African Americans Military Service
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1979.002.4885
(Cronin #13 White Pass steamer "Reliance" tied up on skids where Tanana River Bridge is now)(1920)
Keywords: shipping, steamer, winter, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2017.007.3
[Color view from Government Hill looking south. Damaged houses in foreground, downtown Anchorage in distance]
Collection: B2017.007
B2015.008.458
15. West Hartford ferry, Dec. 1927 [view from ferry to buildings on shore]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.403.1
Anchorage street scene [Ship Creek and Government Hill area, bird's eye view from roof of Anchorage Hotel]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.21
Hewitt's 21 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army marching) [men in uniform marching on Fourth Avenue passing federal building, lead soldier saluting, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2054.35
35-1940 (Fourth of July Parade, 1940) [Army unit in uniform marching past federal building on Fourth Avenue, U.G. Crocker in distance]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2055.9
9 (July 4, 1938, parade) [men on horseback in parking lot, with parked automobiles in background, man at right in polo outfit, three men with cowboy hats, boy on pony with painted face, possibly rodeo clown]
Keywords: animal husbandry, recreation, sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1996.035.10.3.page.11a
[U.S.O. phonograph record, yellow plastic-coated cardboard, 6 ½ inches diameter, “From Wa, To Sugar,” in mailing sleeve labeled “To Sugar.”] [Christmas Day Dinner menu, N.O.B. Adak Alaska, December25, 1946]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1989.016.140
Sydney Laurence painting, summer Mt. McKinley, Misty Mountain.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2074.20
11 (Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954) [musher with bib #17 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Crocker's, Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon, Pacific Northern Airlines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.457
14. West Hartford ferry, Dec. 1927. Our only way to the village [man on ferry crossing river, church opposite]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2056.1
(1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army unit with snowshoes) [men in uniform standing in formation outside Sno White Laundry, Anchorage, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2074.2
(Opening Day, Fur Rendezvous, 1954, 2A) [crowd gathered to watch blanket toss, man jumping with seal poke]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.3412
[Alaska Native woman with toddler sitting on boardwalk near church, Kaltag]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.2074.4
1 (Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954) [road grader smoothing out snow on Fourth Avenue at E Street for dog races, in front of businesses including Anchorage Hotel, Pacific Northern Airlines, Lois Beauty Salon, J. Vic Brown & Sons, and Ship Creek Market]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2245.3
(Palmer Hockey Team, 1936) [group portrait of hockey team on outdoor ice rink, three men with ribbons on shirts, one man wearing sweatshirt reading "Butchers Chittlin"]
Keywords: sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2056.17
Hewitt's 17 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army marching) [men in uniform marching on Fourth Avenue passing federal building, lead soldier saluting, Fur Rendezvous]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2182.6
(Jan. 22, 1952) [two men with snowshoes and packs, one carrying woman on his shoulders, standing next to Sikorsky H-5 helicopter marked Rescue, probably 10th Air Rescue Group at Merrill Field]
Keywords: aviation, transportation, military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2073.7
(Anchorage Houses, Nov. 1964, 12th and S, Yale and Stanford, Columbia and Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge) [single level wood-frame home, winter, with trailer parked at left]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2074.19
(Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954, #10a) [musher with bib #18 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, Reed's, 515 Club]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2075.1
17 (Fur Rendezvous, Obstacle Race,1954) [female musher driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including 4th Avenue Theater, Crocker's, Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, Reed's, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2076.6
28 (Fur Rendezvous, First Day of Big Races, 1954) [musher with bib #8 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Sons Jewelers, Reed's, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon, Pacific Northern Airlines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2333
(Lake Spenard, 1940s) [sunbathers and swimmers in Lake Spenard, with Chugach Mountains in background. color transparency]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.016.1861
Kiana, on the Kobuk River. Sod-roofed cache is proud possession of Eskimo. Background, his wife stands outside their home [Alaska Native man and White woman stand near log cache, woman near log cabin in background, fireweed in foreground]
Keywords: food, residences
Collection: B2014.016
B1989.016.2074.10
(Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954, #4a) [musher with bib #12, sponsored by Muntz TV, driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L.W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Sons Jewelers, and Reed's]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2074.12
6 (Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954) [musher with bib #12 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Crocker's, Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon, Pacific Northern Airlines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2074.15
8 (Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954) [musher with bib #14 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Crocker's, Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon, Pacific Northern Airlines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1780
[street scene of Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, looking east, with automobiles and signs for businesses including Sunshine Market, Alaskan Stationers and Publishing Co., Sewing Center, Piggly Wiggly, The Club, The Pioneer Club, OK Cleaners, 4th Avenue Theater, Empress Theater, Jade Room, Paddock Furniture, Anchorage Times]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection