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Historian w/ daily Alaska history posts & weekly Anchorage Daily News column. Coauthor of Black Lives in Alaska (2022) & co-Alaska Historian of the Year (2023).
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1925 poster for North of Nome, an apparently quite dramatic silent movie set in Alaska.

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2021-04-12

Undated "Northern Lights" oil on panel by Sydney Laurence (1865-1940), one of several pieces by Laurence w/ this subject & title.

Laurence is buried in Anchorage's downtown Memorial Cemetery. This painting sold for $10,000 (plus buyer's premium) in 2010.

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2021-04-01

2008 Patsy Walker: Hellcat from Marvel Comics. Every state is assigned a superhero team but can only afford 1 hero, Hellcat, for Alaska. She is initially not enthused for the move.

Iron Man says, "Don't get too excited. You don't get Florida. It's Alaska."

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2021-02-13

1910 maps of Alaska's Hubbard and Columbia Glaciers by Grove Karl Gilbert, a result of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition.

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2021-01-27

Circa 1950 postcard, Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA) plane over an Alaskan glacier. PNA was an Anchorage based regional carrier. Merged with Western Airlines in 1967.

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2021-01-03

1974, a "Fairbanks Six-Pack" (i.e., a 12 pack) Olympia beer ad in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

"Everything's just plain bigger in Alaska."

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2020-12-31

1958 Atomic Energy Commission film stills on Project Chariot, plan to link five nuclear detonations and create an unnecessary harbor near Cape Thompson. Not built though some nuclear waste was buried there as test, leading to higher cancer rates among locals.

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2020-12-27

Circa 1670 French world map. Alaska is contained within a featureless blob of "terres inconnues" (unknown lands). Also, California is an island.

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2020-12-23

Circa 1959 Texas postcard. "Alaska is bigger than we are, so there's only one thing to do . . . buy it!"

When Alaska became a state, there was a cottage industry of Alaska/Texas jokes, most pointing out that Texas was no longer the largest state.

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2020-12-12

A near future Anchorage as depicted by Jonathan Luna in 20XX from Image Comics, published Dec 2019.

I had fun identifying buildings, inc Inlet View Elementary, Inlet Tower, Veterans and MLK memorials on Park Strip, First Baptist . . .

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2020-10-03