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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.2018.1.12.005
3-4 Street scene; rainy night [automobiles parked on street near Stedman Hotel; person on sidewalk; Ketchikan; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.183
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1772.5
(Anchorage at night) [bird's eye view of long street with residential and business buildings]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2044.4
(Sydney Laurence pictures of Natives) [studio portrait of Alaska Native youth in fur parka and mukluks. double exposure with studio portrait of man. 5 x 7 nitrate negative]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.46
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B2015.026.1198
Snowmachine, ’99 Spring [group snowmachining on frozen lake, man in front of cabin on lakeshore, Maule M-4 airplane tail number N4159C with skis; print date 3 29 99. In 2017, identified by Ken Perkins as his airplane on Lake Susitna, Perkins with his dog walking down from his cabin in .1199. Have negs]
Keywords: Snowmachines, Snowmachining, Winter, Midwinter, Snow, Snowy, Frozen, Lake, Lake Susitna, Lakeshore, Ken Perkins, Airplane, Maule M-4, N4159C
Collection: B2015.026
B1998.014.1.1894
T155 Seward, Alaska (depot & train) [copy neg, automobiles, structures, "Standard of California" siign in distance; mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.189.006
62-1 Feb. 1941; Plus X 14 min @ 70° grainy as hell; black kitten [cat on wood plank; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1776
T94 The starting point over the Alaska Hiway (Dowson Creek, Britsh Columbia, Mile "0") [sign in street: "Dawson Creek; Ft. St. John 49; Ft. Nelson 300; Whitehorse 918; Fairbanks 1523; Mile '0' Alaska Hi-way, Junior Chamber of Commerce" businesses and street in background
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.HuddlraAxel.1
(Huddlra Axel Passport Photos 1934-35)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.40a
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.ANC.5.12a
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B1971.014.014
[from verso] Native girls own idea of posing [young woman wrapped in striped blanket and headband stands in mud on shore; river in background; 1923 scrapbook or album; copy print]
Collection: B1971.014 CIHS Grube Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.2.122
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1989.016.2141.44
D-60. White Mt. Eskimo babies. Hewitt's Photo Shop [two young children in fur parkas, White Mountain]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.21.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B2017.023.089
Yellow Cab Terminal, Paint Shop [Anchorage downtown street scene, automobiles, businesses, gravel street, mountains in distance, clouds]
Collection: B2017.023
B2016.004.38.14
International Women's Year, 1977. At Camp Myer, Wasilla, #1 9-24-77 [portrait, Jane Yamashiro]
Keywords: BIPOC, International Women's Year
Collection: B2016.004
B1973.079.56
[unidentified ship on the water, with mountain slopes in the background]
Keywords: ships, shipping, transportation
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.3.30
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1990.014.5.AKNative.43.62
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.108.003
40-2 Mr & Mrs H.H. Bacon [Feb. 21 - March 1, 1940; seated couple posing]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018