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The Anchorage Museum archives include historic photographs and print materials covering a broad range of topics related to Alaska and the Circumpolar North. Some materials are available online, while others are available for detailed research on site at the Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center.
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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1983.091.S4193.007
Benny Benson, designer of Alaska flag (2/22/64). Interior, man at table, autographing. [Benson talking with children; parkas]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.60
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.381.6
Ice hockey team, Anchorage, 1939 [Fairbanks-Dawson]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.166.58.6.6A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1998.014.1.1352
PF8 Frozen halibut in cold storage at Ketchikan, Alaska. [fish stacked from floor to ceiling.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1979
T207 Soldotna, Alaska " Main Street, 1954" [street scene; with Roger's Garage, Bear En (or Bear End?); gravel road; structures; automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.45
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1989.016.2287
[log building with sign for Alaska Road Commission on dirt road]
Keywords: transportation, roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.13
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Fourth of July float, 1932, 13) [two young girls wearing bathing suits and holding ice cream cones standing next to automobile festooned with banners and crepe, sign on front bumper for Hewitt's Photo Shop, businesses in background, probably Fourth Avenue, Anchorage]
Keywords: food, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.4.61
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2015.026.1240
Lake Louise, 3/00 [scenics of Glenn Highway, group with snowmachines outside Lake Louise Lodge. Have negs]
Keywords: Lake Louise, Lake, Lodge, Glenn Highway, Glenn HWY, Glenn Hwy, Highway, Mountain, Mountain range, Winter, Midwinter, Snow, Snowy
Collection: B2015.026
B1998.014.1.295
B57 (Elmendorf Headqurters Building) [Headquarters Alaskan Command] [concrete sidewalk, walkway]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.6566.jpg
Joe Redington Jr.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1990.014.2018.1.251.003
78-1 April 1942 Pan X; Elaine Cloudy [Ketchikan; portrait in profile]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.62.001
24-2 Billiard balls [left hand, cue stick, billiard table; 1939; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.164
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.P.2.23.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1998.014.1.2324
"Hand in Concrete 'Left y Windham at lab Sep 5, 1945. Found in his pile of junk'" [similar to .2317]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.JohnsonFred.1
(Johnson Fred Passport Photos 1934-35)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.1.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B90.14.5.ARR.4.9.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 4
B1983.058.199
[view across tundra to bay. Identified in 2016 as Attu by Richard Ragle]
Collection: B1983.058 Dowell Aleutian Islands Clean-up
B1989.016.381.7
Ice hockey team, Anchorage, 1939 [Fairbanks-Dawson]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.27.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_27
B1995.010.3031
[person walking in front of church with bell tower in birch trees, sign for “[illegible] Church of England, Service on Sunday at [illegible]”]
Collection: B1995.010
B1984.077.1.035
Man in hat sitting on knoll, structure in right foreground, mountain in background. neg. is deteriorated.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.2058.16
Season's Greetings (Christmas Cards 1939) [Christmas card mat with sketch of man with boat near cache, with photograph of musher and dog team stopped on winter trail. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection