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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1985.027.1209
(Wein Destinations_Fort Yukon)(Visitors on the Yukon Valley tour get to see a demonstration on how moose hides are tanned and prepared for beadwork)
Keywords: native woman, ulu
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.9.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.056
Scn 23862; Air; Portage Glacier to the lake; 14 August 1974, Glacier [view over glacier and lake with Portage Valley, Turnagain Arm, and Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1998.014.1.1288
Circus comes to Anchorage (O85 July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus, aerialists, trapeze performers, ladders, equipment in foreground; musicians performing in background; spectators looking over fence at McAllister Signs, D & D Lounge, Liquor Store in left bakcground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.98.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1983.091.S1470.1
4th Ave Theater night shot (from across street, "South Sea Woman" with Bert Lancaster playing) [automobiles parked at meters on curb, Fourth Avenue]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.26
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.183.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1989.016.1945.2
(Seward Highway, winter) [scenery with snow, trees, mountains]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1320
P2 Part of a winter's catch - north of the Arctic Circle (A story of Alaska) [copy neg; same as .1319]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.4793.jpg
[Wedding of Joe Jr. and Thela Redington?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1998.014.1.2254
"Mink on racks, 1942 (cache)" [similar to .2253; automobles at left]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.17.12
(timber)(July 1966)(Log trucks loaded en route)(NP)
Keywords: forestry, logging, lumber, tree, truck, natural resources, clear cut, transportation
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1989.016.1967.24
(Lu Liston, Dog Races Fur Rondy, Feb 21, 1953 (Saturday) Musher #1) [Fur Rondy Musher #1 races by spectators on fourth avenue]
Keywords: dogs, dog sled, mushing, people
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1984.077.18.019
Ketchikan Packing Co. [waterfront view from porch?, buildings, water, island, boat.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2015.008.868
Tents, Baldwin’s Camp [arrow]. Baldwin, shoulder St. Elias, 1913. Eaton [distant view of
tents set up on side of mountain at right, probably Asa C. Baldwin on boundary survey]
Keywords: glacier, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.170
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.1.82
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 1
B1991.048.202
[man, child, dog, and two horses plowing field, buildings in background]
Collection: B1991.048 Dr_ H_E_ Auringer Collection
B2013.007.020
[Photographic postcard] Stampeders – off for Ruby. Lomen [passengers and cargo in flat-bottomed riverboat, flume visible emptying into river on opposite bank]
Collection: B2013.007
B2015.008.022
235_8 (9_17_14)(10:35am)(Getting water for lunch)
Keywords: Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008