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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.
B1995.014.94.9
[two surveyors at work, military installation at left, tall snow-capped mountain in distance, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.44.10
[men working in ditch next to above-ground pipeline, possibly for hydraulic mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Keywords: water
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.44.1
[view down ditch, possibly for hydraulic mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.75.14
[young child hiding behind mother seated on boardwalk outside log cabin, Alaska Native woman wearing plaid print parka with fur ruff and mukluks, Marshall. Same image as B2012.016.262]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.75.15
[drag line bucket dumping gravel at mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.43.9
[view down dirt road with Chatanika Trading Co. at left, houses and businesses at right, automobiles parked along road]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.25.11
F-E Co. 1942 [dredge at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B2019.003.091
River steamer at Nenana [view across Alaska Railroad dock to paddle steamer and barge, man sitting on dock in foreground]
Collection: B2019.003
B1995.014.105.1
[scenic of coastline, marsh in foreground, buildings on rise at left, mountains in distance, Adak?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.43.8
[view down dirt road with large buildings at left, automobiles parked along road, Chatanika?]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B2000.014.250
(250)(Louden further up criven than 249, July 2, 1914)[small frontier community on the banks of a large river]
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1995.014.2.3
Willow and people [aerial of mountain range and ocean, view out airplane window]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.94.8
[military installation in foreground, view across water to tall snow-capped mountain, Adak?]
Collection: B1995.014
B2005.013.119
Father Paul O’Connor, C.G. & Eskimo children, Mr. Weiss & Al in background, schoolhouse, Hooper Bay [Clarence standing foreground left, with priest and four Alaska Native girls, three men on schoolhouse porch in background, large pile of barrels at right]
Collection: B2005.013
B1995.014.10.11
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [men on ice next to holes, snowshoes at right, mountains in distance]
Keywords: ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B2005.013.117
Hooper Bay village, Catholic Church at left (backgr’d), 7-8-51 [young girl walking along tramway rails, handcar on tracks, with buildings, drying racks, laundry on clothesline at left]
Collection: B2005.013
B1991.011.598
"Newtok; Mar 60 dupe; Betty Ann Tom w/floats" [winter scene; woman wearing parka poses with two seal flats; child at right; structures in background; sled runners at lower left]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.539
"Newtok; 1957; sod igloo; making Eskimo boots (mukluks) Interior of sod igloo - wall lined with split paper cartons; husband (at time) hospitalized w/T.B" [woman sewing boots while toddler sits next to her on sofa or bed; identified in 2019 as Maryanne Hooper and David Moses]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1995.014.2.5
Willow and people. Mr. Tetinek [man wearing backpack and holding walking stick standing on mountainside overlooking valley]
Keywords: hiking, recreation, clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.Album1.234
Copper River rapids, Mile 52, C. R. & N. W. Ry. P. S. Hunt J1894 [view down Copper River & Northwestern Railway tracks, with river at right]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1991.011.539
"Newtok; 1957; sod igloo; making Eskimo boots (mukluks) Interior of sod igloo - wall lined with split paper cartons; husband (at time) hospitalized w/T.B" [woman sewing boots while toddler sits next to her on sofa or bed]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2013.059.022
Canneries. Bering Sea. [Diamond O or Diamond M cannery seen from water]
Collection: B2013.059
B2014.001.726
[ice chunks in lake or river, railroad bridge at left, Matanuska Valley or Kenai Peninsula; print date Jul 76]
Collection: B2014.001
B2017.024.3445
December 1981 [winter scene; two men inside corral with reindeer; northern Alaska]
Collection: B2017.024
B1985.027.1208
(Wein Destinations_Fort Yukon)(Box 4 Folder 84){visitors on the Yukon Valley tour purchase beadwork from native woman}
Keywords: tourism
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1991.011.541
"Newtok - summer fish camp Nelson Island, June, 1957" [view overlooking structures, canvas wall tents; bay and mountains in background; snow, pond, drying racks, boats; identified in 2019 as Nulullugaq fish camp near Tununak; identified at 2019 AFN as Nululluruk camp]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
b2011.014.223
Woman with mosquito net leaning on 1920s Ford automobile, canvas wall tents in background, and water ditch or railroad grade (?) in distant background. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
b2011.014.224
Woman with mosquito net, mining camp (?) in background. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B2019.003.027
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” The school in winter [distant view of buildings, people standing on depot platform in middle ground] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, Education, U.S. Government, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Waiting station, Eklutna Waiting Station, Alaska Railroad waiting station, Alaska Railroad depot, Alaska Railroad, Railroad depot, School, View of school, School grounds, School campus, Campus, Dorms, Dormitories, Winter
Collection: B2019.003
B2012.006.632
[man in military uniform next to bank of control panels inside electrical room at radar site, identified in 2014 as Unalakleet Air Force Station personnel with equipment in the background; no date]
Collection: B2012.006
B1995.010.5599
[girl standing on boardwalk holding Mac’s Foto balloon, children in front of church in background, Kaltag]
Collection: B1995.010