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Circa 1928 "Alaskan Halibut Fisher" oil on canvas by Sydney Laurence (1865-1940). Via Coeur d'Alene Art Auction.

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2021-12-01

1895 "Sitka, Alaska," oil on canvas by James Everett Stuart (1852-1941).

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2021-11-24

Sep 12, 1940 AK artist Sydney Laurence dies. On Sep 11 he announced that he was about to die. Had a shave/haircut, talked to friends, & sold a painting. Told buyer "Tomorrow will be too late." Admitted himself to hospital, then had fatal stroke next morning.

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2021-09-13

Circa 1960s 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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2021-05-07

Excerpts from the 2018 children's book, How Raven Got His Crooked Nose, a retelling of a traditional Dena'ina fable by Barbara & Ethan Atwater, & Mindy Dwyer.

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2021-05-01

Panels from The Three Stooges comic book from Dell Comics, cover dated Oct-Dec 1949. The Three Stooges vs a gold mine & a mountain climbing contest.

Comic available to read here: https://t.co/wCWyLY8ZMh

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2021-04-25

1947 "Achebak, the Seal Hunter" oil on masonite by Frederick Machetanz (1908-2002).

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2021-04-19

1970 copy of an original Tlingit shaman mask. Original "collected" by George Emmons from a shaman at Point Lena in 1919 & currently at National Museum of the American Indian in DC. The copy, by the Cherokee-descended Lelooska (1933-1996), sold for $9,500 in 2006.

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2021-04-19

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 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

1956-57 Air Force lab gave 121 subjects--inc 102 Alaska Natives--radioactive iodine to test role of thyroid in cold acclimation. Poor to nonexistent informed consent.

1996 ethics review interviewed survivors but conducted no medical exams: https://t.co/qbJ0p3bDWa.

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2020-09-26

1910 Smithsonian map of Alaska's Hidden Glacier.

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2020-09-09