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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1995.014.109.11
Russian Mission store [village scene in winter, drying rack in foreground, windmill at left, building with picket fence and lumber pile in center, hill with Russian Orthodox cross in background, Russian Mission]
Keywords: religion, residences, fishing, businesses
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.93.10
[cemetery with Christian crosses, road at right, mountain in distance, Adak?]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B2022.001.12
[Verso:] 20151. Mayfield Evans USAF, 4433 Mt. View Drive, E & S Diversified Services, Anchorage, Alaska, 333-8729. [Evans' military portrait, Air Force.]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, African Americans, Black Alaskans, BIPOC, Military, Portrait, Service, Air Force, USAF, E & S Diversified Services, Anchorage, Alaska, Uniform
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.2.179
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1995.010.6061
5/27/46 [Allens’ house in Fairview with boardwalk or addition under construction, two dogs in foreground, young child at left, 1940s. cf. .5698]
Collection: B1995.010
B1973.096.19
Plate 713_Jackson,Interpreter at Kotzebue_From Copyright Photograph1928 by E S Curtis_Photogravure Suffolk Eng Co Cambridge, Mass [Native man posing for the camera wearing fur parka with hooded ruff]
Collection: B1973.096
B1990.014.5.Pol.16.204.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Pol
B1990.014.5.P.27.75.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P27
B1990.014.5.AKNative.7.51
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus.29.07
(Anchorage_Business_Alaska Seed Co)(Fountaines shown with Tyler Cabinet at the rendezvous parade of industry Alaska Seed Co meat display case with whole pig)
Keywords: grocery, commerce
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus
B1995.014.69.13
[scenic of broad river valley, mountains in distance, probably Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.73A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.24.003
8-2 Portraits of Dad using camera light [likely 1939, overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.16.40.72
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1146.69
(Building Federal Building, P.O. Annex, Oct. 23, 1941) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, exterior of nearly completed postal annex with scaffolding and parked automobile]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.134.2
Sydney Laurence painting, Rock Mt. McKinley.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection