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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1997.019.03full
He suspends them over his meat cellar. He puts labret in his mouth, acting host to the whole village who calls to be served with a piece of whale meat last caught by him.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B2017.011.16
Alaska ’48 – Brooks, Russ and Len in stream [two men angling in river]
Collection: B2017.011
B2003.011.55b
New library, 11/5/45. This is the old cow barn at 5th and E St., now a parking lot (10 Jan 66). Photo by Walt Smith
Collection: B2003.011
B2022.005.191
[Two Indigenous Alaskan young women in dresses smiling; boy wearing costume gun holster at right. Girl in white dress possibly Elva "Willie" Amidon]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Young women, Teenager, Teen, Dress, Smile, Smiling, Boy, Costume, Holster, Gun holster, House, Home, Interior, Elva Amidon, Elva "Willie" Amidon, Willie Amidon
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1995.014.54.17
Auction sale after a town member's death, Fort Yukon, 1934 [Athabascan men, women, and children standing outdoors, girl in center eating apple, woman at right wearing Athabascan-style beaded baby belt, Yukon River in background]
Keywords: clothing, food
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1385
Igloo. Hewitt's, 140 [igloo in baseball field, Anchorage, with Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.Logging.1.6.12
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B2006.023.8678.jpg
[Sunrise or sunset]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B1990.014.5.ConConv.13.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.TV.095.128.7A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1197
Providence Hospital, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Foto [exterior, front. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.1.40
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1990.014.5.AKNative.8.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.Scn.5.019
13324 Scn AIR; McKinley; 7 October 1962 [aerial view of Denali and surrounding area; glaciers]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1998.014.1.708
"F25 Cordova, Fishing boat & dock" [fishing boat, possibly named Phoenix II, men offloading fish, fish net, A-frame, reflection in water, structures, mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.ButlerCW.1
Butler, C. W., Passport Photos, 1942
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2006.023.5321.jpg
[Groundbreaking for Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B1990.014.5.P.26.35.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P26
B1998.014.1.2307
"Caribou hunt" [winter scene with three hunters and caribou on snow; fence in background
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.63.6
[partially obscured view of soldiers with snowmachine pulling sleds of gear, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: mountaineering, military, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.257.2
Episcopal Church, Anchorage. C-7, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2001.036.716
[print and original negative] Kipnuk, AK, 5-82 [snowy landscape with small buildings and boats]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B1983.091.C4767
view of people riding the first escalator in Alaska
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1990.014.5.AKNative.24.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative