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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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B1990.014.5.Ind.9.126.4
(Hydro Const/Power; CEA-ARR power plant for M.K. Co. not used 1 May 1952) [construction site includes materials, crane, railroad tracks and cars to right; structures]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Ind
B2006.023.6304.jpg
Redington 1974 Iditarod, beaver house.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2000.014.790
(790)(Monica Mother Laura Royeln... Kokrives June 17 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.4.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 4
B1989.016.2128.6
(Bowden and Bowden and ?, Feb. 22, 1962) [studio portrait of performers, three men in vests and bowties holding bowler hats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album1.154
R19-1. Mts. Drum, Wrangell & Sandford [view across open area to mountains in distance, possibly taken from Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2006.023.6685.jpg
Susan Butcher plane crash
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1995.014.55.9
Ronald Johnson [two men in rowboat on river]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.Album1.219
Herb Davis, crossing a stream. P. S. Hunt J1856 [man walking along fallen tree, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1990.014.5.P.24.16.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P24
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.19
CF tractor nad trail on 8th Ave. after EQ
Keywords: buildings, damaged buildings, streets, power lines, trucks
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.26
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.51.16
[view across airfield at military base to mountain in distance, barricades in foreground, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1994.009a.donjekfuelstop
A refueling point at Donjek River Basin, one of the most beautiful spots on the Alaska Highway. Approved by Northwest Service Command, U.S. Army. NFB photo.
Collection: B1994.009 Ray / B1994_009a
B1990.014.2018.1.277.003
85-6; Bar in Officers' Club & Marcelino [bartender standing behind bar; Ketchikan; 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.174.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2016.007.259
75-270. Glacier Bay Nat. Mon., Lowell Thomas Sr. & Jr. aboard the Le Conte, 6 July 1975, Pentax 135mm
Keywords: tourism, transportation, aviation
Collection: B2016.007
B1998.014.1.535
D32 Dick Mitchell and his beautiful team of Siberians, Anchorage, Alaska, 1 print; 1 neg" [sled dog team, musher, snow, Chugach Mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.247.6A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.6609
Unloading supplies from the Nomad at Chestnuts homestead, Flat Horn Lake.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2017.023.073
United States Post Office and court House, Sitka, Alaska [building, automobiles, people, bicycle]
Collection: B2017.023
B1990.014.5.EQ.21.1.25
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_21
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.44
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative