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B2009.029.05
[Fish Trap Question newspaper article]
Keywords: newspaper, fishing, commercial, salmon
Collection: B2009.029
B1989.016.2367
[Aviation, Star Airways, model airplane suspended over newspapers]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1990.014.2018.1.5.002
WCP [man sitting in arm chair reading newspaper; 1939?; overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.5.002
WCP [man sitting in arm chair reading newspaper; 1939?; overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2022.001.147
Newspaper clipping, “Cheers & Jeers,” undated [Copy of newspaper clipping regarding Mayfield Evans participating in Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center’s fundraising dunk tank at Downtown Wednesday Market]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Newspaper, Clipping, Cheers & Jeers, Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, Fundraising, Fundraiser, Dunk Tank, Downtown Wednesday Market, Market, Anchorage, Community
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1983.091.C6725.9
Sinclair Assoc. Various opress of newspaper headlines. 11-19-65 [We're In headline in hands of a man]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1990.014.2018.1.4.002
Sheldon [man sitting in arm chair; talbe; lamp; bookcase at left; piano at right; newspaper at right]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.4.002
Sheldon [man sitting in arm chair; talbe; lamp; bookcase at left; piano at right; newspaper at right]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1993.020.129
Doris & bonfire for statehood, 6/30/58 [holding newspaper with “We’re In!” headline, standing next to sign from .128]
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.129crop
Doris & bonfire for statehood, 6/30/58 [holding newspaper with “We’re In!” headline, standing next to sign from .128]
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.130
Vida & statehood bonfire, 6/30/58 [holding newspaper with “We’re In!” headline, standing next to sign from .128]
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1996.035.10.3.page.4g
[cartoon from Adak newspaper] "Now, Wilbur, I'm going to give you something you missed all those months in Adak."
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B2022.001.132
Newspaper clipping, “No vacation from dirty laundry”, photograph in front of Mayfield’s Quality Cleaners on DeBarr Road, undated
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Newspaper, Clipping, Mayfield's Quality Cleaner, Laundromat, DeBarr Road, Sharon Anthony, John Robison, Peter Hodun
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.85.004
30-3; Smith family [two women sit at table; newspaper or magazine with illustrations on table; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.85.004
30-3; Smith family [two women sit at table; newspaper or magazine with illustrations on table; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2022.005.158
[Indigenous Alaskan woman laying down and reading newspaper on back seat of bus. Possibly Elva "Willie" Amidon.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Bus, Seat, Transportation, Reading, Newspaper, Publication, News, Elva Amidon, Elva "Willie" Amidon, Willie Amidon
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1996.035.Adakian Newspaper001
The Adakian_vol II_No 67_ Thursday 6 June 1944
Keywords: newspaper
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B1996.035.Adakian Newspaper002
The Adakian_vol II_No 67_ Thursday 6 June 1944
Keywords: newspaper
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B1983.091.C6725.5
11-19-65 Sinclair Assoc. Various press of newspaper headlines. (Anchorage Daily Times. "WE'RE IN", 6-30-58
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B2022.001.143
Newspaper clipping from Anchorage Daily News announcing E&S Diversified Services winning Contract from Maintenance and Logistics Command in Alameda, California, November 6, 1993
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Newspaper, Clipping, Anchorage Daily News, E&S Diversified Services, Announcement, Winning contract, Maintenance and Logistics Command, Heard on the Street
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2009.017.1984.11
“Well, looks like the only entry we can expect for the Campbell Creek Classic this year is the Tidy Bowl Man” ©1984 [couple reading newspaper headlined ‘City streams Seriously Polluted’]
Collection: B2009.017
B1998.014.1.2317
"Hand in Concrete 'Left y Windham at lab Sep 5, 1945. Found in his pile of junk'" [concrete slab with fingers exposed at upper left; newspaper or newsletter behind slap]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.017.1985.02.24
“Shoot, at this rate it’s going to be cheaper to fly to Muldoon” ©1985 Sunday Feb. 24, 1985 [couple at bus stop reading newspaper headlined ‘Smith proposes Bus Fare Hike’]
Collection: B2009.017
B2014.012.74
[four men, youngest man wearing lace cuffs, seated on couch in wallpapered room, newspaper box mounted on wall at left, map of Bristol Bay on wall at right next to door]
Keywords: clothing, residences
Collection: B2014.012
B1993.020.2022
Vida [Nye] & extra news, st[atehood] celebration by bonfire [woman holding newspaper in front of statehood bonfire with sign “Deposit Wood for Statehood Bonfire Here!”; print date Jun 58]
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1996.035.10.3.page.9
[newspaper clipping from Adak Tribune, daily schedule for radio station WXLB, March 15, 1946] [handwritten label, addressing envelope to S. L. Kirby at “Adak, Calif” with Calif crossed out and Alaska written in pencil, and note: “Don’t believe I ever heard of the place”] [newspaper clipping, letter from executive officer S. O. Cole detaching from duty at Adak: “The people and not the locality make a station. It is with this thought that I regret leaving Adak.”]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1990.014.2018.1.75.003
28-3 Christian Science booth at Ketchikan Fair; 2E-7 cents [sign for "The Christian Science Monitor, International Daily Newspaper;" table for display; chairs; lamp; woman's portrait on wall; September 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.75.003
28-3 Christian Science booth at Ketchikan Fair; 2E-7 cents [sign for "The Christian Science Monitor, International Daily Newspaper;" table for display; chairs; lamp; woman's portrait on wall; September 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1431
(S26 An Aleutian "chateau" or "Home was never like this" 1946 postcard) [service man reclined on slope, possibly reading a newspaper, outside cave; shovel, broom, door, barrel, stovepipe, ax, beach, beachgrass; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Ind.9.123.1
(Industry; newspaper; Chugach Electric; proposed power load & authorization for distributor & load; 10 Jan 1953) [Two men look at CEA Power Generation Growth chart, with one pointing to pending growth]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ind
B1990.014.2018.1.75.004
28-3 Christian Science booth at Ketchikan Fair [Woman sitting in rocking chair in foregorund; sign for "The Christian Science Monitor, An International Daily Newspaper;" table for display; chairs; lamp; woman's portrait on wall; September 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.75.004
28-3 Christian Science booth at Ketchikan Fair [Woman sitting in rocking chair in foregorund; sign for "The Christian Science Monitor, An International Daily Newspaper;" table for display; chairs; lamp; woman's portrait on wall; September 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.99.001
37-2; interiors at 1055 Stedman St [cabinet; floor lamp; books; wall calendar from New England Fish Co. turned to January; table holding books, newspapers; box on floor from "Sunshine;" Ketchikan; January 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.99.001
37-2; interiors at 1055 Stedman St [cabinet; floor lamp; books; wall calendar from New England Fish Co. turned to January; table holding books, newspapers; box on floor from "Sunshine;" Ketchikan; January 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2014.012.92
[man wearing hat, striped pants, and lace-up boots laying on couch smoking tobacco or opium pipe in wallpapered room, newspaper box mounted on wall at left, map of Bristol Bay on wall at right next to door]
Keywords: clothing, tobacco, residences
Collection: B2014.012
B1989.015.1
Members of the Adakian Staff WWII Newspaper Seated Left to Right: Bernard Kalb, Dashiell Hammett, Hal Sykes Back row left to right: Alva Morris, Bill Glackin, Bernard Anastasia, Al Loeffler, Dick Jack, Oliver Pedigro, Don Miller
Collection: B1989.015
B1996.035.10.3.page.7a
Adak Tribune newspaper, February 23, 1946, page 1 of 6 pages. Lead article about a Russian ship, the Donbass, which broke in two and was found 400 miles south of Adak. “Navy search parties have been hampered by bad weather. . .” and Kirby has penciled: “That is me.”
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.7b
Adak Tribune newspaper, February 23, 1946, page 2 of 6 pages. Lead article about a Russian ship, the Donbass, which broke in two and was found 400 miles south of Adak. “Navy search parties have been hampered by bad weather. . .” and Kirby has penciled: “That is me.”
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.7c
Adak Tribune newspaper, February 23, 1946, page 3 of 6 pages. Lead article about a Russian ship, the Donbass, which broke in two and was found 400 miles south of Adak. “Navy search parties have been hampered by bad weather. . .” and Kirby has penciled: “That is me.”
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.7d
Adak Tribune newspaper, February 23, 1946, page 4 of 6 pages. Lead article about a Russian ship, the Donbass, which broke in two and was found 400 miles south of Adak. “Navy search parties have been hampered by bad weather. . .” and Kirby has penciled: “That is me.”
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.7e
Adak Tribune newspaper, February 23, 1946, page 5 of 6 pages. Lead article about a Russian ship, the Donbass, which broke in two and was found 400 miles south of Adak. “Navy search parties have been hampered by bad weather. . .” and Kirby has penciled: “That is me.”
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.7f
Adak Tribune newspaper, February 23, 1946, page 6 of 6 pages. Lead article about a Russian ship, the Donbass, which broke in two and was found 400 miles south of Adak. “Navy search parties have been hampered by bad weather. . .” and Kirby has penciled: “That is me.”
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.16b
[four-page tabloid newspaper reprint about Bikini Atoll nuclear tests: “Clippings Taken From The Honolulu Advertiser, 3 Feb & 1 March 1946 Pertaining to “A” Bomb Test Of Which You Are A Part . . . , handwritten note on first page that “Cot sent this to me” back page is taped down]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.16a
[Cover of four-page tabloid newspaper reprint about Bikini Atoll nuclear tests: “Clippings Taken From The Honolulu Advertiser, 3 Feb & 1 March 1946 Pertaining to “A” Bomb Test Of Which You Are A Part . . . , handwritten note on first page that “Cot sent this to me” back page is taped down]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1996.035.10.3.page.16c
[four-page tabloid newspaper reprint about Bikini Atoll nuclear tests: “Clippings Taken From The Honolulu Advertiser, 3 Feb & 1 March 1946 Pertaining to “A” Bomb Test Of Which You Are A Part . . . , handwritten note on third page that reads “we are about here on the X”; back page is taped down]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B2015.008.710
247.3. A rubber bath tub, used by Alaska prospectors in a cabin far in the wilds, for
laundry as well as [three men seated in log cabin, man in center smoking pipe and leaning
over, man at right wearing bib overalls and cleaning duck, man in center reading newspaper
possibly George, Towle’s Log Cabin Syrup on table at left, ladder in background, gear hanging
on walls. Caption lightly erased. Print cropped with loss of caption]
Keywords: cabin interior
Collection: B2015.008