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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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b2011.014.60
Man and woman standing in front of log building. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B90.14.5.ANC.5.120
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.127
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1990.014.2018.1.115.004
41-4 portrait of Mother [March 1-3, 1940; Seattle, Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.2470
"Flash tests (each one numbered or has letter) 100th sec F3.2 w/#2 bulb" [similar to .2460; "5" displayed on tables]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.24.8.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_24
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.19.16
(timber)(July 1966)(KP. Co. Thorne Bay Yarder's Log Spar)(good)(np)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1989.016.FencichR.2
[Fencich R Passport Photos 1942]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1983.091.C7525.19
Interior Fourth Avenue Theater 11-21-67
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1995.014.49.8
[exterior of Quonset hut No. 5 with sign for Lackanukky Lodge, Adak]
Keywords: military, recreation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.48.7
[sunrise or sunset over town or camp, with log cabins, cache or dog kennel, unidentified location]
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.002.02
[Fur Rondy parade marching down 4th Ave in front of Vans Sporting Goods Store]
Collection: B2015.002
B1998.014.1.854
(L60 An Aleutian Landscape; Tulik Falls) [waterfall, likely on Umnak Island, Tulik Volcano, Mt Okmok]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.101.003
37-4 Exteriors at 1055 Stedman St [Ketchikan; January 1940; street view looking southeast of domicile; road; boardwalks; fuel storage tanks; utility poles]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.113
A45 Fox in boot, caption: getting a boot out of Alaska [caption is in reverse]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.823
Crevice camp igloo after a week’s absence, roof melted. 30 [looking into snow cave,
with pots, pans, and other supplies]
Keywords: cooking, snow cave, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.Logging.2.3
(Ketchikan Pulp Company Thorne Bay)(4879)(Ketchikan Pulp Co. Kenworth Log Trucks Mechanic Thorne Bay KP Co.0(1-8x10)
Keywords: forestry, logging, lumber, timber
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 2
B1990.014.5.TV.095.128.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1995.010.5617
[Alaska Native boy fishing from riverboat tied to beach at fish camp, second boat and possibly fish trap in background]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1755
(T76 Ellis Air Lines, Ketchikan air taxi) [aerial view with wing in upper foreground, Ketchikan in distance, water, Pennock Island at right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2007.005.5.117
[stereo views; interior view of family inside wood structure, woman, two children; woven grass basket in foreground; woven mats; woven bag next to child; lantern at left; bowls on floor at left]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1990.014.2018.1.295.006
89-2 March 43; Infra Red; Still lifes [plantings in bowl with figurine (possibly a squirrel?); Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.People.14.221.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14