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Historian with daily Alaska history posts & weekly column (https://www.adn.com/author/david-reamer/). Black Lives in Alaska (2022) co-author & 2023 co-Alaska Historian of the Year. Support at Buy Me a Coffee (https://buymeacoffee.com/davidreamer).
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"Fck Ur Colonial Gaze" acrylic on paper by Alison Bremner. Via Steinbrueck Native Gallery. #alaskahistory #alaska

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2007 "Lena & Pete with the Laundry & the Meat" oil on linen by Kathryn Mallory, depicting life on the Seward Peninsula. Via Anchorage Museum. #alaskahistory #alaska

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Still from 2014 short film "Trambo" by Marja Helander, of an Indigenous Sami woman in Finland dragging a trampoline around a snowy landscape. The trampoline represents the trap of modernity, the way it cam pacify and distract us from realities around us. Via Walker Art Center

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1973 "Three Against the World" print by Dale DeArmond (1914-2006). #alaskahistory #alaska

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Circa 1950s/60s Northern Consolidated Airlines luggage label. Northern Consolidated was founded in 1947 and merged with Wien in 1968. Via Ebay. #alaskahistory #alaska

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1976 7-Up "Alaska" soda can, part of their American Bicentennial Canorama Collection promotion. If you collected all the cans, you could make a rough map of the US. #alaskahistory #alaska

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May 16, 1955, 7 y/o Teresa Binek is 1st Anchorage child to receive a polio vaccination. In 1954, 10 local children died of polio. Teresa lived to marry and have children of her own. This was the IPV vaccine, given as a shot (or jet injector gun sometimes). #alaskahistory #alaska

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1957 Bell Telephone magazine ad featuring Ketchikan and noting their new underseas cables linking Lower 48 & Alaska. Note the high rates, $8.25--about $95 in 2025 money--for a daytime phone call from Chicago to Ketchikan. #alaskahistory #alaska #ketchikan

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C. 1960s Skagway postcard, of the Kirmses dressed in "1898 costume." Fun challenge would be to find a photo of someone dressed like that in that era, especially the dress cut & color, & his wide tie. Other photos are 1898 & 1904 Skagway. #alaskahistory #alaska

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1974 "Libraries for Alaskans" posters designed by Dale DeArmond (1914-2006). #alaskahistory #alaska

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Oct 26, 1954 Reuters silent newsreel of Roy Bergo trying to sail from Edmonds, WA to Alaska in raft made from a children's bathtub, w/o charts/maps. He said "I will rely on my own judgement." He made it 12 miles before a very annoyed Coast Guard had to rescue him. #alaskahistory

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July 21, 1898, the first excursion of the White Pass & Yukon Route railway out of Skagway. Railroad wasn't finished; they went to a point about 4 miles out of town. This is sometimes incorrectly called the first locomotive in Alaska. #alaskahistory #alaska

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1980s/early 1990s Pepsi Cola trucker cap from Alaska. Via Ebay, not my listing (ebay.us/m/FO7Lb3). #alaskahistory #alaska

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1982 "Clean Up Alaska" public service announcement from Juneau. #alaskahistory #alaska #juneau

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1968's "Anchorage Town" by the Harry Simeone Chorale from the It's Alaska soundtrack, a musical produced by Alaska Airlines that simulated a tour of the state. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory

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The Coup and Sage Francis gig poster, from their November 7, 2013 show at the Bear Tooth in Anchorage. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory

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From roughly 1983 to 1986, Alaska Airlines ran a mileage incentive program which offered frequent flyers actual gold ingots when they hit mileage goals. #alaskahistory #alaska

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In 1974, Alaska Airlines partnered with Braniff Airways to offer direct flights from Alaska (Fairbanks/Anchorage) to Texas (Dallas/Houston). They called it the Pipeline Express. #alaskahistory #alaska

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Feb 3, 1975, 197 Japan Air Lines (JAL) passengers got severe food poisoning from food loaded in Anchorage, prepared by cook here with staph lesions on his hand. Kenji Kuwabara, the JAL catering manager, committed suicide a few days later.#alaskahistory #alaska

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I'm so proud that @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social won an award for their local program Songwriters on Songwriters! Our very own local Fresh Air for Juneau music. We are rich in muses here. This is my hour-long interview & performance hosted by Alex Kotlarsz: www.ktoo.org/2024/10/09/s...

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May 12, 1966, aerial view of Anchorage centered over the intersection of Northern Lights Boulevard and the Alaska Railroad. Turnagain neighborhood in the upper middle right. #alaskahistory #anchoragehistory #alaska

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May 12, 1964 aerial of Good Friday Earthquake damage to the Turnagain-by-the-Sea neighborhood of Anchorage. If you walk along the coast there today, you can still come across debris from the earthquake. Via Anchorage Museum. #alaskahistory #alaska

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A polar bear in Alaska, from the 1940 Merrie Melodies short "Cross Country Detours," which was directed by Tex Avery. #alaskahistory #alaska

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Of Ketchikan, Hubbard said, "They have there in Ketchikan, the only stream in the world where the fish and the fisherman go up to spawn. It’s a red-light district. It stretches up around the curve, a very beautiful stream."

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In 1989, AK Governor Steve Cowper issued a proclamation for a "L Ron Hubbard Day," then quickly cancelled it once his office realized who Hubbard was. Learn more about that, and the months Hubbard spent in 1940 Ketchikan, in my latest article (www.adn.com/alaska-l...). #alaska

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1940, L. Ron Hubbard--yes, the Scientology guy--at his radio station desk in Ketchikan. For a few months, he was trapped there. Learn why and more in my latest article (www.adn.com/alaska-l...). #alaskahistory #alaska

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Did you know that L. Ron Hubbard--yes, the Scientology guy--spent a few months stuck in Ketchikan? Learn the backstory and the odd coda in my latest Anchorage Daily News article. #alaskahistory #alaska www.adn.com/alaska-l...

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1920 Swedish poster for The Silver Horde, a silent movie set in Alaska based on the 1909 Rex Beach novel of the same name. Romance and the salmon industry are the feature elements, of course. Beach took part in the Klondike and Nome gold rushes. #alaskahistory #alaska

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1897 Dawson. Jack London camped next to this cabin. The dog, a Saint Bernard/Scotch collie mix named Jack, was the inspiration for Buck, the hero from Call of the Wild. Like Buck, Jack was owned by a California judge. Via Huntington Library #cdnhist #alaskahistory #alaska

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May 6, 1931 Ketchikan Mayor Norman Walker Mother's Day proclamation. Says the day should be when people find ways to lessen risks for expectant mothers instead of useless "sentimental" displays with "no practical service." #alaskahistory #alaska #MothersDay

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1897 Sheep Camp, AK on the Chilkoot Trail. Circled is possibly 21 y/o Jack London. He spent nearly a year in the north &, wrote, "I brought nothing back from the Klondike but my scurvy,” That, and the basis for numerous stories, including Call of the Wild. #alaskahistory #alaska

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