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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.5.EQ.20.44
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1998.014.1.313
B62 Theater, at Elmendorf Field, Alaska. (Post theatre [sic] Chugach) men stnding outside theater, copy neg.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.87.49
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.317
Central Building, Anchorage, Alaska. [taken from lawn of Federal Building]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.P.4.37.19A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P4
B1989.016.1870.1a
(Eskimo man and seal, made from 35mm color slide) [man in hat with ear flaps, fur-trimmed parka and mukluks holding rope attached hook embedded in seal carcass, sled visible in foreground. color neg]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1533.1
117. Valley hay fields, Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [people working in field, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1988.003.11
Old Baranoff Castle Sitka, Alaska 1889 WH Case 28 (Sitka Alaska) [large house and accompanying structures situated on a rocky outcropping overlooking the water]
Keywords: house, castle, dwelling
Collection: B1988.003 Ingalls Collection
B2013.075.092
Tanana #2, Kaktovik [dwelling mostly buried in snow, anlers on roof, ladder, thermometer, pipe venting, 1966]
Collection: B2013.075
B1998.014.1.2226
"Rainbow trout 13-3/4 lb, 1939" [trout displayed with yardstick from Seward Hardware store]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.5.44
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2012.10
Panoramic Photograph of Downtown Anchorage 1948, including 4th Avenue Theatre, Masonic Temple, Old Federal Bldg, and Kimball's. National Photo and News Service image number 106482,
Keywords: Panoramic, 1948, Anchorage, Chugach, Mountains, 4th Avenue
Collection: B2012.010
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.149
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.10.7
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [sleds and dog teams on ice]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.283
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2013.059.029
Canneries. Bering Sea. [view from boat's pilothouse, photographer's shoe in foreground, two men in bow, view down river]
Collection: B2013.059
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.119
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.12
(Anchorage Schools Airports HTS School)(April 1969-12682)(Airport Hts school kids)
Keywords: school, education, anchorage
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B2000.003.kimura.18
Frank and George Kimura and delivery crew, 5th and C Street, 1940 [men outside Snow White Laundry in Anchorage. From Legends & Legacies by Bagoy]
Keywords: businesses, minorities, Asian Americans, Japanese Americans
Collection: B2000.003
B1990.014.5.TV.095.126.15
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV