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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.2018.1.90.001
33-1 Dec. 1939 Agfa Superpan Supreme - 50-32; Dev in DK20-15 min @ 69°; Dad's car & garage; [automobles with spare tire on back parked on plank driveway; wooden structure, likely domicile at left; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B90.14.5.AncAir.22.64
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 22
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.74
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.420.18
Merrill Field and proposed Chester Creek Dam. [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2143.14
22. Welcoming the Valley colonists at Anchorage. Hewitt's Photo Shop [large crowd gathered on platform next to tracks at Alaska Railroad depot in Anchorage, passenger train unloading, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.005.091
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B90.14.5.ARR.3.69
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 3
B1990.014.5.AKNative.24.70
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1146.12
(Building Federal Building, Sept. 20, 1939) [walls going up at new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.C10172.39
(Oct 10 / 10 /1979)(Stack Steel Poly Creek)(conservator #?)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1989.016.520.TIF
[Label from original envelope]: Sleeping Bear (painting) copy [bear cub drinking from baby bottle. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.002.063
Left to right, Randal Fleming, Gregory Fleming, Samuel Fleming, Kelly Fleming, Sheldon Fleming, Anchorage, Alaska, 1964 [proud father taking a photo with his children.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Randal Fleming, Gregory Fleming, Kelly Fleming, Sheldon Fleming, Anchorage, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1995.014.23.15
[wooden skiff with tarp covering on beach, dog sitting in stern]
Keywords: boats, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B2022.001.112
Certificate of Achievement and copy of Forklift Operator Authorization Card, presented to Jon Sablan, In Recognition of Having Attained (A) Classroom Safety Training Institution seminar For Experienced Fork Life Operators & Passed Test, Class Put On By Safety Max-Buzz Cat Training Services, E&S Diversified, July 23, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, Alaskans, Certificate, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Certificate of Achievement, Achievement, Recognition, Joe Sablan, Employee, Crew, Team, Recognition, Attendance, Classroom, Safety, Safety Training, Safety Training Institution, Seminar, Class, Experience, Fork Lift, Forklift, Operator, Test, Passed, Safety Max-Buzz Cat Training Services, Authorization, Authorization Card, Card, Vehicle, Equipment, Machinery, Forklift Operator Authorization Card, Project Manager, Manager, CRI, Written test, Driving test
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1990.014.5.P.27.67.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P27
B1990.014.2018.1.248.003
76-1 February 1942; Pan X; 122 min @68°; traps at Mud Bay [fish traps off shore near Ward Cove; cabins; trees]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.70.3A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.36.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2013.077.60
[Vera Zimmermen with two Tlingit men, possibly at a cannery, Inside Passage, 1937]
Collection: B2013.077
B2016.019.4.23.02575.11
Farm in Matanuska Valley, Alaska, [Matanuska Valley and Glacier], c. 1981
Keywords: farm, matanuska valley, matanuska, alaska, southcentral, Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Matanuska Valley and Glacier, Matanuska Farms
Collection: B2016.019
B1990.014.5.People.12.22
7/4/1947; 1745-21b; Girl Scouts marching with colors in 4th of July parade, 1947"
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1990.014.2018.1.101.004
37-4 Exteriors at 1055 Stedman St [Ketchikan; January 1940; street view looking toward road leading to Standard Oil Company of California and water; fuel tank and tree stumps at right; ship in midground behind fuel tank; Pannock Island in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2022.005.106
[Indigenous Alaskan girl with braids holding seal skin; second seal carcass on ground nearby]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girl, Young woman, Child, Braids, Hairstyle, Mukluks, Footwear, Seal, Seal skin, Harvest, Winter, Outside, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.5.P.4.37.4A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P4
B1990.014.5.AKNative.25.69.21
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative