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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B2021.010.107
[1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.2.76.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B2024.001.573
“[Powerline Pass] Jul 68” [one individual, possibly identified as John Parker, on a motorized dirt bike driving through a shallow creek. Similar to .576-7. Powerline Pass area, Dena’ina territory, July 1968]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Powerline Pass, Motorcyle, Dirt bike, Creek, Water, Mountain, Snow, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2016.019.1.04d.03562.12
AK Experience Theatre [Anchorage - Signs and Neon], 1983
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Experience Theatre, Anchorage, Signs and Neon
Collection: B2016.019
B1995.010.3382
[Clarissa and Phyllis McCutcheon walking in village past houses]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.ThayneSidney.1
(Thayne Sidney Passport Photos 1933)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2024.001.889
“Feb 78” [large dog sled team enters a tunnel at Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, February 1978]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, Rondy, Mushing, Musher, Sled dogs, Husky, Races, Dog sled, Winter, Snow, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2016.005.113
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B1989.016.1308
On the ice hummocks of Bering Sea, opposite Nome, Alaska, May Day, 1910. Lomen Bros. 45. May Day, Nome, Alaska. / May Day, Nome, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [Men and women pose on the ice with dog team, sled, snow shoes, and skis. double caption. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1056a
Camp sports [man standing on back of horse, Mount Rainier in background]
Keywords: mountains, Mt Rainer, horse
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2239.2
(Fourth of July 1934) [soldier in uniform riding Caterpillar tractor, passing spectators and houses, Anchorage]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.1460
[Railroad buildings.] 8 x 10 nitrate negative
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.1852.2
(Christmas Card neg) [hoar frost on trees]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.010.029
[1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection
B1989.016.480
Providence Hospital, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's 14.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.25.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_25
B1962.001.0696
[Athabaskan, Indigenous woman holding child outside tent.] [At camp, likely Ahtna]
Keywords: Athabaskan, Indigenous, BIPOC, Camp, Tent, Ahtna, Woman, Child, Infant
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.2053.28
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [flat bed truck festooned with banners, one reading "Signing of the Declaration of Independence," man dressed as Uncle Sam and woman dressed as Statue of Liberty on running boards, group in powdered wigs with table on back of truck]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.18.51
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_18
B1990.014.5.People.14.43 (2)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14