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B1986.096.274.1
Elks Youth Day, May 2, 1973
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1986.096.274.5
Elks Youth Day, May 2, 1973
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B2022.003.36
B 66, Jesse Oscar’s [five Indigenous individuals, two adults and three youth, posed with buildings in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Family, Youth, Parka, Fur, Building, Jesse Oscar
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
B2022.003.62
G 105 90, Joseph Albrights [five Indigenous individuals, two adults and three youth, posed in front of a white house]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Family, Buildings, Telephone pole
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
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
B1989.016.2151.3
Copyright 1904 by B.B. Dobbs, 192 (Nome) [portrait of Eskimo youth with braided hair, chin tattooing, beaded necklace and fur parka]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.003.38
C 86 56, Mary Lu and Malia [two Indigenous youth standing for a portrait wearing western style dresses and fur boots]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Youth, Boots, Fur, Portrait
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
B2021.008.2
[group of seven people, five Indigenous youth and two white women, with a dog in bathing suits on a beach with trees in the background. Possibly Tyonek or Eklutna]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Swim
Collection: B2021.008 Myrtle Everett Bragaw
B1989.016.2044.4
(Sydney Laurence pictures of Natives) [studio portrait of Alaska Native youth in fur parka and mukluks. double exposure with studio portrait of man. 5 x 7 nitrate negative]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2146.18
#18 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941, Youth Shop Float. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [young girl on parade float passing The Club and Merchants Cafe on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.004.275
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, Members, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Horseback, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2019.007.048
March 12, 1996 [village scene, 1996; child sitting on steps next to man with clipboard, paper, pen. At AFN 2022, youth sitting on the stairs identified as Jeffrey “Smurf” George]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Manokotak
Collection: B2019.007
B1989.016.2146.1
#1 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941, Youth Shop Float. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [young girl on parade float passing Rexall Drugs at corner of Fourth Avenue and E Street in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.008.3
[group of six Indigenous men and one Indigenous youth standing in front of tents. Man at center may be holding a tin of food. Man second from the right may be holding a box camera. Possibly in Tyonek or Eklutna]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska
Collection: B2021.008 Myrtle Everett Bragaw
B2021.004.272
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition [Children with winners banner. ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Children, Youth, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.276
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition. Banner: "Freedome Ain't Free Let's Support The NAACP" [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Banner, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1989.016.2055.19
19 (July 4, 1938, parade) [General Motors flat bed truck festooned with crepe and flags, Northern Transfer painted on door, children on back of truck on swingset and seesaw, one boy holding basketball, banner reading "Bond Anchorage Youth Preferred J.C.C. Playground"]
Keywords: recreation, sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.004.274
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition. Banners on mobile home: "Freedom Ain't Free Let's Support the NAACP" and "Denver Bound NAACP 1981 National Convention" [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Banners, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley