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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B2016.019.1.04e.05526.23
Moss and mud patterns on Turnagain Arm. [Anchorage - Turnagain Arm], c. 1986
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Anchorage, Turnagain Arm, Moss, Mud flats
Collection: B2016.019
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.45.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1998.014.1.2169
"Alaska Crippled Children Association, 1966 Easter Party; group photo" children and adults near a table; Easter baskets]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.173.003
58-1; Dec 1940; Pan X DK 20; Deer Mt. & city float from wire works dock [view looking across water at boats in harbor; structures; mountain; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.27
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1995.014.53.16
[two dogs standing on top of log kennel, buildings in background, Russian Mission?]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1995.014
B2000.014.790
(790)(Monica Mother Laura Royeln... Kokrives June 17 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1989.016.2144.21
#64. Dawson city. (Old Klondike) [men standing in front of the Eldorado House. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.43.54.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1967.24
(Lu Liston, Dog Races Fur Rondy, Feb 21, 1953 (Saturday) Musher #1) [Fur Rondy Musher #1 races by spectators on fourth avenue]
Keywords: dogs, dog sled, mushing, people
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2479
"Sticking shutter shots; town near river" [view looking up a creek from a bridge; equipment in creek: bulldozer, crane; culverts; structures at right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.71
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B2009.017.1989.03.029
Fatally oiled in the Valdez spill
Keywords: exxon valdez, evos, Anchorage Daily News, political, cartoons, comics
Collection: B2009.017
B1989.016.085.1
Fishing boats, Anchorage, taken at Emard's dock, 1946. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.ConConv.02.23
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1979.002.1530
(Locos, Steam (misc)(Rail across ice at Nenana showing type loco used 12_11_21){engine #830 steaming along the rails in winter}
Keywords: trnasportation, train, railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.35
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.14.004
3-6; Fish house; Nefco 1/8 c 6.3 [Exterior view of New England Fish Co. as soon from possible road; wood structures; boat leaning against fence; Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.38.39
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative