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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1989.016.423
Native cabin at Eek, Alaska. Hewitt's, 36. [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.5.8.21
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 5
B1998.014.1.1168
O32 Path of the mid-winter sun over Fairbanks, Alaska (1949 postcard) [copy neg; same as .1165]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.3980
[two Alaska Native women and two children outside of Eckardt’s Store, caribou antlers mounted over window, Kotzebue; print date May 63]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.010.1
The Lido Barbers (Fur Rendezvous Earl Blinzler, Ken)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2007.005.4.147
"1930 Quigillingok natives. The snow covered mound on the left is an igloo, the home of some of the natives you see on this picture." [men, women, children pose next to woven grass baskets; neg #B2007.005.6.238]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1990.014.2018.1.150.002
49-3 Panorama of Ketchikan, 1/2 meter reading - yellow filter [view of waterfront; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.2415
"Christmas line stuff: 15 negs - Christmas cards" [copy neg winter town scene with lettering cut off at right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.StateBattle.1.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.StateBattle
B90.14.5.ARR.3.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 3
B1990.014.5.P.2.21.71
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B2015.008.1171b
51.11. Gewandhaus, Braunschweig, Germany. 10.15.10, 10:20 A.M., bright, 16, 1/25. Gewandhaus or Hall of the Drapers at Brunswick, Germany [Proof print]
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.ConConv.18.18
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B2013.059.030
Canneries. Bering Sea. [two men on tractor pulling wagon with four men aboard, "probably used on the road between NN and O and M." per Monsen]
Collection: B2013.059
B1990.014.5.ConConv.03.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1989.016.2139.29
Alaska A Merry Christmas (Neg for cards #39) [scenic with trees in forergound, lake in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.3.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 3
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.67.16B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative