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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.
B1989.016.2312.7
(Alaskan Merchandisers, exterior of warehouse, May 9, 1951) [railroad and equipment yard, Ship Creek area, Anchorage]
Keywords: businesses, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1997.003.141
[Man sitting in driver's seat of automobile; buildings in the background; could be same location as image .123]
Collection: B1997.003
B2012.027.015
Texaco trucks [smashed truck and beached boat, the Celtic, on shore at Seward, earthquake damage, 1964]
Collection: B2012.027
B1989.016.304.5
Transportation, Alaska R.R. [two men stand on dirt road next to cabins, possibly in McKinley Park]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2303
(Anchorage Grocery Meat Market, view of store window, March 19, 1946) [window display with Coca-Cola and 7-Up soda bottles]
Keywords: businesses, health, food
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1054.1
27. Headquarters A.R.R.C. Colonist Project Matanuska Valley. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [men outside four walled tents, two women walking, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1054.2
48. Headquarters and Offices Management A.R.R.C. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [walled tents and wood frame buildings along road, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2023.003.18
3928, 34, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [view of Alaska Railroad yard at Ship Creek with parked train cars and buildings facing southwest with downtown Anchorage and Knik Arm in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Anchorage, Ship Creek, Knik Arm, Cook Inlet, Alaska Railroad, Train, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
B1989.016.672
2. [Anchorage City Hall exterior at night in winter with Christmas decorations]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
b2011.014.34
Three women, two men in front of tar-paper building. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B2015.008.1124
On the Ebro near Lodosa. On the right side of the picture appear ruins of the Roman aqueduct [view from train paralleling river]
Collection: B2015.008
B2023.003.27
Alaska Railroad, RS1 #1000 Train #3, Portage, AK. 07/09/1956. 3968, 1, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad train with buildings to the left of tracks and at right in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Portage, Alaska Railroad, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
B2018.023.054a
[sidewalk scene; totem poles; structures; men, women, children walking on sidewalk; dog; bird motif painted on structure behind totem pole; trees in background; hand painted]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.054b
[verso of slide: sidewalk scene; totem poles; structures; men, women, children walking on sidewalk; dog; bird motif painted on structure behind totem pole; trees in background; hand painted]
Collection: B2018.023
B1981.020.022
The Dam, Ocean Falls, B.C. No. 2923 [hydro power dam erected by Bella Coola Pulp and Paper Company to power mill, town buildings in background]
Collection: B1981.020 Hotchkiss
B1989.016.2143.26
49. H'dqrs Medical Division, A.R.R.C., Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [utility poles and wood-frame building near dirt road in foreground, walled tents in background, flag pole at left, Matanuska Colony, Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation]
Keywords: medicine
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.97
[Indigenous Alaskan child in snowsuit holding food and standing next to dog outside midwinter]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Child, Boy, Snowsuit, Outerwear, Clothing, Food, Dog, Winter, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.98
[Four Indigenous Alaskan girls posed together, two holding tin cups. The three younger girls are wearing western-style athletic shoes (possibly Converse). Village in background. Possibly Inupiaq territory.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girls, Young woman, Child, Children, Parka, Fur, Reindeer, Clothing, Outerwear, Western clothing, Footwear, Athletic shoes, Shoes, Sneakers, Converse, Tin cup, Village, Buildings, Houses, Structures, Inupiaq, Inupiat, Territory
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
b2011.014.33
Three women, two men in front of tar-paper building. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B1990.014.5.People.18.8A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 18