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• June 2025
• Marlyn Fish Company

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• February 2025
• A "Sweet" Business

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• November 2024
• Southeast Alaska Heritage Reuseable Bag

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• September 2024
• Heckman Patents First Floating Fish Trap

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• August 2024
• Preserving the Summer Catch

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• July 2024
• F/V Alsek

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• June 2024
• Ketchikan's Tunnel Turns 70

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• May 2024
• Alaska Steamship Company Menu

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• April 2024
• Play Ball!

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• March 2024
• Herring Rake

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• February 2024 (1 of 2)
• Silver Engraving

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• February 2024 (2 of 2)
• Sea Otter Fur Vest, "DaKl'aweidi"

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• January 2024
• Evolution of the Star House

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• December 2023
• Still Keeping Time

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• November 2023
• Beat of the Drum

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• October 2023
• Bowling: That's How We Roll!

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• September 2023
• Paulu Saari, the Photographer

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• August 2023
• Celebrating the Airport's 50th Anniversary

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• June 2023
• Quarantine, Stay Clear!

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• May 2023
• Elinore's Place in Ketchikan

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• April 2023
  
• History on Wheels

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• March 2023
• Gunakadeit Arrives in Ketchikan

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• February 2023
• Haida God's Gift, 1947

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• January 2023
• Source of Inspiration

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• December 2022
• Tree Point Lighthouse Lens

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• November 2022
• Advocating for Indigenous Civil Rights

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• October 2022
• Haldane Photo Studio in Metlakatla

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• September 2022
• Glimpse of Cannery Life

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• August 2022
• A Ruckus for a Good Cause

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• July 2022
• High School Memories

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• June 2022
• Hip Abduction Brace

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• May 2022
• Wingren's United Groceries

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• April 2022
• George "Burn 'Em Up" Wilkes

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• March 2022
• Isolated, But Never Alone

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• February 2022
• Ketchikan's Notorious Melodrama

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• January 2022
• Hollywood Comes to Ketchikan

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• December 2021
• An Ap-peel-ing Christmas Treat

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• November 2021
• Mother Robe

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• October 2021
• Slices of Ketchikan Life

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• September 2021
• Unpacking Mary A. C. Gibson's Story

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• August 2021
• Ketchikan at the Fair

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• July 2021
• July is for Shipping Salmon

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• June 2021
• June is Pride Month

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• May 2021
• "Surviving" Middle School

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• April 2021
• Arthur Yates Memorial Hospital

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• March 2021
• Mildred Manty (1911-1978)

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• February 2021
• Shopping at Tatsuda's

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• January 2021
• Sgúusiid Kigw (Potato Basket)

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• December 2020
• Jean Howard's Christmas Ornaments

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• November 2020
• Ketchikan Daily News' First Digital Camera

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• October 2020
• Ryus Drug Company

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• September 2020
• Unprecedented Times

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• August 2020
• Pieces of Our Past: An Epic Ketchikan Knife

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• July 2020
• Active Collecting: How Ketchikan Experienced the COVID-19 Pandemic

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• June 2020
• Saving Babies, One Box at a Time

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• May 2020
• U.S. Navy Fliers Search for Lost Plane

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• April 2020
• Flight of the Northbird

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• February 2020
• Activist and Cannery Worker

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• January 2020
• "Wil Uks T'aa Medik" (Cape Chacon)

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• December 2019
• A Scandinavian Christmas Tradition

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• November 2019
• Modern Tlingit-style war helmet

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• October 2019
• Keeping the Tradition Alive

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• September 2019
• Full Circle

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• August 2019
• Mike Martin at the Sideboard

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• July 2019
• On the Clock

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• January 2019
• The Alaska Sportsman

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• December 2018
• Sledding on Main Street Hill

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• November 2018
• Community Cookbooks

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• October 2018
• Hidden Treasures

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• September 2018
• ire aboard the S/S Prince George

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• August 2018
• "The Best Boat on the West Coast"

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• June 2018
• The Diary of a Tour Conductor

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• May 2018
• Gertrud Schrader's Signature Tablecloth

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• April 2018
• Aerial Dead Reckoning Computer

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• March 2018
• Smoke Helmet Saves Lives

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• January 2018
• New Year's Celebration at the Filipino Community Hall

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• December 2017
• Compass for Marine Navigation

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• November 2017
• Ketchikan's Liberty Brick

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• October 2017
• Telephone Books and City Directories

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• September 2017
• Celebrating the purchase of Alaska

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• August 2017
• The Art of Collecting: "Laser Forest"

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• July 2017
• Treasured Memories from a Ketchikan Summer

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• June 2017
• Play Ball!

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• May 2017
• American Legion Honors Ketchikan Veterans

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• April 2017
• Judy Baker Mugs Reunited

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• March 2017
• (no title) 49'er Bar hand truck

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• February 2017
• Lure of Ketchikan: Billingsley Jewelry Store

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• January 2017
• Miners & Merchants Bank

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• December 2016
• (no title) Double edged metal ice skates with leather straps

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• November 2016
• "Stone Ribs", a Haida Story Pole from Old Kasaan

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• October 2016
• (no title) Halibut hook with octopus design

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• September 2016
• (no title) Killer Whale Transformation Mask by Jack Hudson

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• August 2016
• (no title) Copper lithograph plate with the image of "Jacob Pittenger's Dairy, Ketchikan"

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• July 2016
• (no title)Cast iron Gamewell fire alarm box

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• June 2016
• "June's Cafe"

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• May 2016
• "Until they come home"

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• March 2016
• Telephone book

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• January 2016
• Ketchikan celebrates passage of the Alaska Statehood Bill, June 30, 1958

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