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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.
B2017.002.19
[children and adults sitting in auditorium waiting to watch a movie, man standing at film projector in background, Barrow, 1956-1957]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2017.002
B2013.075.162
Sand Point, 1966 [man standing on boardwalk running between houses]
Collection: B2013.075
B2017.029.1511
[Governor Wally Hickel and Ermalee riding in automobile on parade passing spectators in front of Peking Garden; print date July 27, 1993]
Collection: B2017.029
B1991.046.54
Savoonga, 7/52 (Lee’s) [Alaska Native woman standing on boardwalk holding infant, church in background]
Collection: B1991.046
B2017.029.1635
[man smoking cigarette sitting with three children outdoors, “North to the Future” patch on man’s denim shirt; print date Sep 76]
Collection: B2017.029
B2015.007.41
[group of six white children, probably siblings, posed outdoors in summer, wooden buildings in background]
Keywords: families
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.2141.65
D-84 [woman wearing fur parka with geometric decoration standing outdoors in winter]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.115.16
[fish drying racks, driftwood in foreground, building in background at right, Russian Mission]
Keywords: fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B1970.019.691
Old and new depot. Evidently from M.L. Sharp (1942). 2.5 x 3.5 negative.
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B2015.007.38
[young Alaska Native girl standing on boardwalk in front of building, wearing print dress, hair bow, and mukluks, holding ball]
Keywords: clothing, recreation, sports
Collection: B2015.007
b2015.027.133
The one on my right is the one I wrote about. The other is from St. George [compiler, wearing fedora hat, sitting with two women on automobile fender]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.027
B2016.004.82.71
Whitney-Fidalgo Cannery, Ship Creek, Anchorage, 1974 [workers relaxing on dock]
Collection: B2016.004
B1995.014.109.3
[log cabin under construction in wooded area]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.029.1615
[people playing basketball on outdoor court, buildings in background, Anaktuvuk Pass; print date Sep 76]
Collection: B2017.029
B2015.007.139
[young Alaska Native boy sitting on a small sled or toboggan outdoors, wash basin and drying rack at right]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.1870.3a
(Eskimo mother and two children) [woman and two children, all in fur-trimmed parkas, in interior of house. color neg]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.51.9
[four men wearing ranger hats seated around camp fire in wooded area, Willow?]
Keywords: hiking, military, camping
Collection: B1995.014
B2000.017.30
[women sitting on tundra near whale meat in foreground, others sitting behind plastic windbreak in background, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2014.019.388
#228. Dogs and kids, Ruby, Alaska. Northern Color Film Co., Robert A. Hall, Moose Pass [Alaska Native children and puppies posed on sled frame in winter, fish rack, cache, and log cabin in background]
Keywords: transportation, animals
Collection: B2014.019
B2017.024.3389
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play on and near window of structure; snowmachine; barrels in background; likely Savoonga]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.164.001
54-3; Pigeons in Indian Town [birds feeding from ground; Indiantown Ketchikan; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.164.002
54-3; Pigeons in Indian Town [birds feeding from ground; Indiantown Ketchikan; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.109.11
Russian Mission store [village scene in winter, drying rack in foreground, windmill at left, building with picket fence and lumber pile in center, hill with Russian Orthodox cross in background, Russian Mission]
Keywords: religion, residences, fishing, businesses
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.109.4
[soldiers standing on bank near birch trees with amphibious vehicle in water]
Keywords: military, transportation, boats
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.010.2389
[view of fishing boat under way from dock in winter, snow on mountain in background]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.007.125
[village as seen from water, tent on beach, buildings nad pine trees on low bluff]
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.1870.3b
(Eskimo mother and two children) [woman and two children, all in fur-trimmed parkas, in interior of house. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.029.1621
Anaktuvuk Pass native child [young girl wearing headscarf holding fingers up in vee sign; print date Sep 76]
Collection: B2017.029
B2013.075.508
1967-68 [Koliganek? man and two sons standing in doorway of log cabin]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B2013.075
B1995.010.2387
[scenic, with man standing on winter road along water in foreground]
Collection: B1995.010
B1991.046.105
Nuka Bay February 1952 Mr. & Mrs. "Herring Pete" Sather [Josephine Sather]
Collection: B1991.046
B2015.007.116
[young Alaska Native woman holding infant outside log cabin, second child just out of frame at right]
Keywords: children, mothers
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.18
[Alaska Native man and woman posed outdoors next to log cabin, man wearing fur parka with walrus-tusk gussets and geometric trim and lace-up boots, woman wearing reindeer fur parka with geometric trim and mukluks]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.36
[group posed outdoors next to building, with elder woman wearing fur parka and eyeglasses, two young women wearing squirrel fur parkas, and two young girls wearing cloth parkas, ladder against log building at left and another in background. Same as .14]
Collection: B2015.007
B2016.006.2859
Juneau-DNC-Wrangell-[Chuck?]-KTN-Annette-PSBG, Aug. 11-15, 1961 [aerial of site on coastline]
Collection: B2016.006
B2015.007.146
[young woman wearing dress and Mary Jane shoes posed next to wood-plank building in winter, icicles on eaves]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2014.013.25
At Knik, Aug. 07 [four people aboard gas launch Swan. Photographer O.G. Herning. cf. .24]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B2014.013
B1995.014.54.13
[soldiers pulling load over snow, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation, 1943-44]
Keywords: military, mountaineering, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1157
O28 Along an Alaskan Hiway (Paxson's Lodge, 1938; 1946 postcard) [log structures, antlers, screened porch, sign: "Good fishing; big game hunting" automobile tire, wheelbarrow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.046a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [woman wearing kuspuk and mukluks carries a baby on her back as she walks through sand; canvas wall tents, structures, clotheslines in background; possibly Nome; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.046b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: woman wearing kuspuk and mukluks carries a baby on her back as she walks through sand; canvas wall tents, structures, clotheslines in background; possibly Nome; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1979.002.4685
"Exp. Sta. Romanow Spr [spring] wheat 1918 [sleeve 21, Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, man wearing suitcoat, necktietie, straw hat, standing in field of wheat, barn, sign reading “U.S. Agricultural experiment station” at gate, man in distance to right of barn, fence]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC