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The Anchorage Museum archives include historic photographs and print materials covering a broad range of topics related to Alaska and the Circumpolar North. Some materials are available online, while others are available for detailed research on site at the Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center.
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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B2014.003.11
(Skagway)[docks and a steamship in the harbor of Skagway]
Keywords: wharf, ships, fishing, transportation, port, southeast
Collection: B2014.003
b2012.006.470
Ball, Wm. Boorman [two men standing on shoreline in spring, village buildings in left background, Alaska Native man holding shovel; no date]
Collection: B2012.006
B1989.016.1656.23
(National Bank of Alaska Branches) [bank branch in winter. Similar to .1656.16-19]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.004.341
Harvesting whale blubber and baleen, Barrow, Alaska [people cutting whale on ice edge; print date Jun 81]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.5.EQ.18.45
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_18
B1990.014.5.EQ.21.1.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_21
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.9.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B2008.004.021
Bringing the body of a missionary home after burial. Eskimos had killed him [crewmen of the Thetis with a coffin]
Collection: B2008.004 Bjorkman Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.4.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1962.001A.138
Copper River [Indigenous people], Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E283 [verso:] Horse Creek Mary (father was Russian) [studio portrait of two Ahtna men and one woman.] [Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Ahtena, Indigenous, Man, Woman, Portrait, Studio, Copper River, Atna, BIPOC, Russian, Horse Creek Mary, P.S. Hunt
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.5.People.14.155
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1989.016.2246.7
(Parade, 1950) [spectators outside Hewitt's Drug Store in Bevers & Pfeil Building, Fourth Avenue and E Street, Anchorage]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1476.5
Sept. 1914 [Alaska Native man in fur parka smoking pipe and holding reins to reindeer, with Caucasian man in Western clothing and hat. black-and-white transparency. copy]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1962.001.689
[Bridges; Sleds; Transportation – Horses]
Keywords: Bridges, Sleds, Transportation, Freight and freighting, Horses, Animals, Livestock, Rivers
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B2014.012.72
[men on beach, more men on large canoe or umiak close in to shore. original image blurry]
Keywords: boats
Collection: B2014.012
B1970.073.043
48. Taking goods across Tazelina [on verso:] Tazlina [stereograph. Men lined up shoulder-to-shoulder on bank of Tazlina River]
Collection: B1970.073 Minnesota Historical Collection
B2022.005.88
[Indigenous Alaskan woman and man with reindeer in harnesses hooked up to sleds; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Man, Parka, Fur, Clothing, Outerwear, Reindeer, Caribou, Harness, Harnessed, Sled, Sleds, Building, Buildings, Community, Transportation, Outside, Snow, Winter, Landscape
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.91.59
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.19.002
5-3 old boat on beach [hull partially in water; barnacles; 1939?; likely Saxman]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1952.3
(Dog team, Cliff Brandt) [man with sled and dog team on winter trail]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.001.010
Mayfield Evans, Guam [Note on front: Forever Loving you Mayfield] [Studio portrait likely taken while serving in the U.S. Air Force.]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, African Americans, Alaskans, Guam, Travel, International, Studio portrait, Overseas, U.S. Air Force, US Air Force, Air Force, Inscription, Handwritten
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
