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Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Anchorage, airport
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Totem Pole and Full Moon – poster
Unused card. Grade: 1
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The Alaska Zoo, polar bear
An astonishingly long and comprehensive caption on the back of this unused card, telling just about everything you could ever want to know about polar bears, but not where the Zoo is. Grade: 1
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Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center – Bull Moose
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Alaska Oil Pipeline
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Dog Team & Northern Lights
Unused card of a scene in the Matanuska Susitna Valley. Grade: 1
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Iditarod, Finger Lake checkpoint
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Wasilla, Iditarod Trail Headquarters
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Eskimo Blanket Toss
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Delta Junction, Alaska Highway
Unused card showing the point where the Alaska Highway and the Richardson Highway come together. Grade: 1
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Alaska’s Symbols
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Alaska from Space
Unused card. Grade: 1
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With Love from Alaska
Unused card of a cow moose, and calf. Grade: 1
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If you are not the lead dog
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Alaska The Great Land (map)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Totem pole
Unused older Mike Roberts card C7140 of a totem pole in a field of Alaska Fireweed. Grade: 1
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Ketchikan, Totem Bight
Unused Plastichrome card issued by Pacific Northern Airlines, which predictably used the caption as a marketing tool. Grade: 1
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Totem Pole
Unused Alaska Card A-28, by H.S. Crocker, with minor aging and mottling on the back. Grade: 3
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Ketchikan, Chief Skowl Totem Pole
Unused Mike Roberts card C18579 showing the pole and the tunnel in downtown Ketchikan. Grade: 1
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Glacier Bay icebergs
Mailed in 1984, with stamp and faint postmark. Aging a bit, but still Grade: 1
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The Trail at 100 – Iditarod National Historic Trail
There are many Iditarod postcards but not so many with this timely theme. Larger (5″ x 7″) card mailed in 2014 with a round Global Forever stamp and Anchorage postmark, though also with significant postal abrasions on both sides. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Ketchikan
Mailed in 1980 from Juneau, this card has a 10-cent stamp, postmark, and a notation at the bottom reverse telling when it was received. Serrated edges. Grade: 3
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Wrangell, Kicksetti Totem and Sun House
This totem is surmounted with a face representing a mountain. Below is a frog, the emblem of the Kicksetti tribe. Below is the old Rave, talking to the young Raven that created man. The lowest figure is that of the Kilisnoo beaver, whose father belonged to the beaver family and the mother to the frog family. The house has the symbol of the sun. So there. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Hurricane Gulch Bridge
Rarely does a caption pack so many statistics into such a short space. One: the bridge is at Mile 284.2 on the Alaska Railroad. Unused, aging card with a small red smudge near the postage area. Grade: 2
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Alaskan Volcano
Unidentified but “Snow-capped active volcano” on this unused Mike Roberts card. Grade: 2
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Alaska Totem Poles
No other caption, on this unused old card. Grade: 2
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Lake reflection near Anchorage (Union Oil)
Scattered around in this website, you’ll find several entries from a Union Oil Company series of scenic views in the American West. This unused and unnumbered card (“Tour scenic Alaska this year with 76 gasoline”) is one of those. Aging, but still Grade: 1
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I’m having a great time in Alaska
Mailed (we’re not sure when: indistinct postmark) with a 6-cent stamp and some awesomely bad handwriting. The scene though is at Saxman Indian Village near Ketchikan. Grade: 1
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Devastation of the Great Alaskan Earthquake of Good Friday 1964
Unused Plastichrome “Alaska Joe” card P59753 showing “One of 77 luxury homes demolished in the fashionable ‘Turnagain’ residential area” (of Anchorage). Earthquakes make for surprising events — and surprising postcards. Grade: 1
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Totem pole (Pan American Airlines)
Unused card issued by the airline. We continue to be awed by the number of tourists who wandered fields in their Sunday finest clothes. Grade: 1
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Sitka, Lover’s Lane and Mt. Edgecumbe
Real-photo card mailed in 1930, with stamp and nearly all of the postmark. Minor edge abrasion. Grade: 2
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Juneau, Main Street
Unused Mike Roberts “Alaska Color Card” C317, with minor edge abrasions along the bottom. Grade: 2
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Totem near Ketchikan
Unused Wesco “Spectratone” card C279, aging somewhat. Grade: 2
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Alaska Maid
Unused “Comic Post Card” C-130. The lower right corner is chewed up a bit. Grade: 3
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Great Alaskan Earthquake of Good Friday 1964
Unused Plastichrome card P59755, whose full caption reads: “Devastation of the Great Alaskan Earthquake of Good Friday 1964. The ‘Turnagain’ residential area overlooking Cook Inlet.” Grade: 1
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Kasaan, Deserted Indian Village. Showing Tribe Totems.
Mailed from Seattle on 19th December 1907, to Amesbury Massachusetts, where it arrived on 24 December — according to the two postmarks. Stamp’s there, too. Grade: 2
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Ketchikan, Totem pole, Indian cemetery
Mailed in 1911, with stamp and Long Beach postmark, great for collectors of totem pole postcards in particular. Grade: 2
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Skagway, White Pass & Yukon Route (3D)
Sturdy, unused, lenticular (3D) card with — unusually — three different views depending on the angle of viewing. The scan can’t do it justice but each of those three views shows the train. Rounded corners. Grade: 1
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Alaska Dog Sled Racing
That’s the header on the back, but what they mean is the famous Iditarod event, and the caption goes on to explain that a bit. The card was mailed from Canada (not Alaska!) in 2021, with three different stamps. Grade: 3