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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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B1998.014.1.630
E48 Diomede Island, Alaska, Frank Morgan photo "Diomede Is from ship" [same as .629, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.18.1
(timber)(July 1966)(KP. Co. Thorne Bay. Portable Steel SPAR)(N.P.)(very good)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.3.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.74
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2017.024.1986.tagging01
Polar bear survey -- tagging team works on drugged bears - Chukchi.
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.12.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1990.014.5.People.14.133
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B90.14.5.ARR.2.208
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.94
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.82.002
29-6; view & scenery from top of mountain [weathered tree in foreground; near Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2021.004.252
Photographs from July 10, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Robert B. Atwood, editor and publisher of The Anchorage Times
Keywords: Ed Wesley, NAACP, Robert B. Atwood, Editor, Publisher, The Anchorage Times, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1995.014.8.6
The funeral of a young boy who went out trapping and presumably died of hypothermia. The priest's name was [Vasily] Changsak. [Russian Mission, men carrying coffin]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.48.9
[sunrise or sunset over town or camp, with log cabins, cache or dog kennel, unidentified location]
Collection: B1995.014