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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.
Anchorage Museum Archive Image Search
The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
on Alaska and the Circumpolar North, with 95,530 items scanned and searchable online.
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B2019.007.657
Togiak, 1991; photographer number 2-T21-15 [Grass harvesting; grass bundles hanging outside structure]
Collection: B2019.007
B2023.011.72
Yukon River [view of damn and Ųųg Han (Gwich’in) or Chu Nìikwän (Southern Tutchone) (Yukon River)]
Keywords: Alaska, Canada, Alcan Highway, Yukon River, BIPOC, Indigenous, Ųųg Han, Gwich'in, Chu Nìikwän, Southern Tutchone, River dam, Shoreline, Beach, Trees, 35mm, Film
Collection: B2023.011 Patricia A. Volkman
B2016.004.38.17
International Women's Year, 1977. At Camp Myer, Wasilla, #1 9-24-77 [group portrait]
Keywords: BIPOC, International Women's Year
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.18
Mac and Mac's Foto, Steve saying "we will survive".
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1990.014.5.AKNative.20.34
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2019.003.078
“Anvik, Christ Church Mission" Louis, half br. [young boy posed on building steps next to pile of fuel wood]
Collection: B2019.003
B1998.014.1.1934
(T179 Anchorage, Homes) [view looking southeast; roadway; subdivision above wetland, Anchor Park at Lake Otis and Maple; mountains in distance at left; Chester Creek in mid-ground, utility poles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
b2011.014.240
Man with fishing pole on stream bank. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B2015.025.463
[Ken Hinchey, gold mining at Willow, carrying load of logs on metal frame strapped to back]
Collection: B2015.025
B2006.023.2594.jpg
Redington's Knik Kennels truck.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.17.16
(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.PearsonAEMR.1
(Pearson AE MR Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.37.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.760
"L8 An Alaskan village, 1946 postcard" [Winter scene, log cabins, storage caches, sled dogs chained to kennels, dog houses, drying rack in center of image, spruce trees, possibly moose carcus handing from gable end beam of structure on left, animal laying on the ground in front of structure]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1952.10
(Dog team, Cliff Brandt) [man with sled and dog team on winter trail]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2058.31
Alaska, Season's Greetings (Christmas Cards 1939) [Christmas card mat with sketch of cache and holly leaves, with photograph of Providence Hospital. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.646
180.3. Leaving Dawson, 8.8.12 [view from ship of large crowd gathered on dock next to
building]
Keywords: Dawson, dock, transportation
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.1.23
Mr. Griffin, post master at Golovin and his clerk, Mr. MacCutcheon [probably H.H. McCutcheon, circa 1900-1908]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.1
b1969.015.1.21
Fred Winters (left) and Fred Beyer ran the mail between Nancy & Susitna Station. 2.5 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1969.015 Fred Winter
B2008.015.1.29.2
Anchorage Band and L.O.O. Moose, Labor Day parade, Sep. 3, '17, Anchorage, Alaska. A.E.C. G762, P.S. Hunt
Collection: B2008.015