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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.004.00495
On the bleak Arctic tundra, wind has sculpted snow into unusual configurations. Photographer's number: 00495. CH6363
Keywords: snow, winter, weather
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2017.024.2124
King Island, copyright 1986 [men tighten leather straps in umiak as boys look on; beach; structures in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.080.7
Louise's dog, cream-colored. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.8945.jpg
Camp fire, Iditarod Trail. Slide printed April 1972
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B1990.014.5.AKNative.25.25
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1772.12
(Anchorage at night) [bird's eye view, probably from Government Hill overlooking Alaska Railroad yards and downtown beyond]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1918.10
Alaska, Merry Christmas [Christmas card mat with sketch of log cache and person tending fire, with photograph of glacier ice]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1472
S47 Parade on Anchorage's Fourth Ave. (1951) [scene looking northwest across intersection of 4th Avenue and F Street; soldiers marching in formation; spectators; people on rooftops and looking from windows; banners, flags; City Hall, The Gitchell; Smart Shop Ladies' Apparel; automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.063a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “61” [caption] “Collection of nuggets of Nome, Alaska” [gold nuggets arranged in display, some in frames listing possibly locations and dates; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.96.28
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B2009.017.1989.06.07
A scene we'd like to see: the exxon excutive washroom
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, cartoons, comics, political, exxon valdez, evos
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.265
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.14.12
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [men setting up fish traps on ice, dog team in foreground, mountains in distance]
Keywords: transportation, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B2006.023.2456.jpg
Twenty miles outside Nome.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B90.14.5.ARR.1.202
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B90.14.5.AncAir.22.7.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 22
B1986.096.sewer01
Sewer utility. Aug. 6, 1966. End of project 402-66-02. Possible slide rule error. Suggest we specify "gap water" in the future. L.B. [Polaroid]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1990.014.5.ANC.2.201
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / ANC_2
B1998.014.1.1272
O76 Alaska Hiway - different country - same road (Alaska Highway entrance sign) ["Entering Alaska, leaving Yukon Territory" sign along highway; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley