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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1989.016.2056.31
Hewitt's 31 (1941 Fur Rondy parade, Army truck) [military automobiles, trucks, and heavy gun in Fur Rendezvous parade headed west on Fourth Avenue, passing spectators and businesses including Northern Commercial Co., U.G. Crocker, Alaska Storage, Richmond's Restaurant]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.52.4B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B90.14.5.ARR.3.37
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 3
B1989.016.1138.7
(Ski Jump, Feb. 28, 1949) [view from near top of jump as skier heads down, City Ski Bowl, Anchorage]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.005.041
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B2019.007.445
Togiak, May 16, 1991 [restaurant/café kitchen; photographer's number 2-T24-2 [man and woman stand in kitchen behind counter holding carton of eggs; condiments; walkie-talkie; stoves and refrigerator in background; boombox at far right]
Collection: B2019.007
B1989.016.645
Going over into Broad Pass, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [dog teams with sleds on trail]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.6971.jpg
Photo by Tom Griffin
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1979.002.Album1.13
M-37. Crossing Sheep Creek. W. F. Milliken [two men walking on log laid across creek, one man carrying surveyor's tripod, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.294.5
Sub zero. Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 18, 38. Cement pouring at 10 degrees.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.People.14.301.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1998.014.1.1120
(O12 winter fun in Alaska; 1946 postcard) [copy neg; same as .1118]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1936.1
(Richardson Vista housing, Nov. 6, 1952) [pedestrian on sidewalk, children playing on grass in housing development]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.42.23
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.106
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.250.001
77-1 Mar 1942 Pan X 12 min @68° DK 20; Eulachons drying in sun at Saxman [fish hanging on ropes in front of structure, detail]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.87
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2016.004.38.30
International Women's Year, 1977. At Camp Myer, Wasilla, #1 9-24-77 [group portrait]
Keywords: BIPOC, International Women's Year
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.2018.1.27.004
9-3; View from Federal Building; 1/30 c 12.5 red [Thomas Basin boat harbor, docks, piers, structures, boats; Tongass Narrows, Pannock Island in distance; Ketchikan, 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.7.75
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.454.6
Providence Hospital, interior. [woman seated in waiting area, beneath Sydney Laurence painting]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.21.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_21