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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.
B1962.001A.244
Packing the cable from the beach to the cable office, Valdez, Sept. 26, ’04. WAMCATS Telegraph Office on right. P.S. Hunt, G52 [Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System; Valdez Mercantile Co.]
Keywords: Cable office, Valdez, WAMCATS, Telegraphs, Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System, Valdez Mercantile Co., Buildings, Businesses, Communications
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1962.001.0775
[identified as early days at Kennicott, probably cables for tram in B62.1.774 by patron 6/79; Cables; People; Copper mines and mining-Kennicott] [Two people with large coils of cable. Likely Ahtna Territory]
Keywords: Ahtna Territory, Mines and mining, Copper mines and mining, Kennicott, Cables, Tram, Supplies, Equipment
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1962.001A.245
Hauling the end of the cable from the Burnside to the shore, Sept. 26, ’04. P.S. Hunt, G50 [Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System; Burnside (Ship)]
Keywords: Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System, WAMCATS, Telegraph cable, Communications, Burnside, Boats and boating
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.2039.3
[two men in military uniforms with cable or rope in wooded area in winter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.638
44. Cable crossing, Chickaloon. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [also has numbes 53 and 384]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
AEC.G1731
A.E.C. G1731 HG Kaiser Hurricane Gulch Showing Cable Tram Way. March 6 - 1921.
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1998.014.1.2258
"Mink on rack, 1942 (under cache)" [similar to .2257; snowshoes, rope or cable coiled atop snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1962.001A.447
Teikhell telegraph station. P.S. Hunt, G697 [Tiekel; WAMCATS Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System] [Ahtna Territory]
Keywords: Ahtna Territory, Tiekel, Telegraph stations, WAMCATS, Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System, Telecommunications, Communications, Winter, Forests, Log cabins, Log buildings
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.2018.1.100.003
37-3; Exterior at 1055 Stedman St. [Ketchikan, January 1940; domicile with porch, railing, steps, boardwalk; utility cables]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.100.003
37-3; Exterior at 1055 Stedman St. [Ketchikan, January 1940; domicile with porch, railing, steps, boardwalk; utility cables]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1979.002.4924
"8/8/1919M. Sabine. Oat field East Road" [sleeve 59 Fairbanks area agriculture, utility poles and cables, fence post in foreground]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1962.001.1416
Copper Center, U.S. Telegraph Station and Klutina River Bridges. P.S. Hunt G750 [WAMCATS Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System] [Ahtna territory, Tl'aticae'e (Copper Center)]
Keywords: Tl'aticae'e, Copper Center, U.S. Telegraph, US Telegraph, Telegraph, Stations, Klutina River, River, Bridge, WAMCATS, Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System, Winter, Midwinter, Snow, Snowy, View, Ahtna territory, Landscape
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.2018.1.38.005
15-3 Fish House vs. S.S. Oduna [June 20, 1939, 1:30 p.m.; Ketchikan; bird's eye view of dock, rooftop, cables or wires]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.38.005
15-3 Fish House vs. S.S. Oduna [June 20, 1939, 1:30 p.m.; Ketchikan; bird's eye view of dock, rooftop, cables or wires]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1994.008.299
[from verso:] Anchorage Times photograph, Jun 1968" [helicopter supporting steel electrical supply line structure with cable; men standing near base of structure in clearning]
Collection: B1994.008
B1962.001.0774
“Tram at Bonanza Mine” [identified as early days at Kennicott mine, by patron 6/79; Bonanza Mine; Railroads, Cable; Mountains; Copper mines and mining-Kennicott] [Likely Ahtna Territory]
Keywords: Ahtna Territory, Bonanza Mine, Mines and mining, Copper mines and mining, Kennicott, Railroads, Tram, Cables, Landscape, Mountains
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1998.014.1.2230
Alaska Shop - Alaska black bear "black bear & fence" [bear with collar and chain sitting on wood with paw around cable; structures and mouintain in distance likely in Seward]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.118a
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [label] “2” [Man sitting atop cage suspended by cable along a canyon wall; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.118b
W.C. Ives; 200 E. 23rd St; New York City [label] “2” [verso of slide: Man sitting atop cage suspended by cable along a canyon wall; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2014.028.866
10325B [workers and heavy equipment along right-of-way, pickup truck at right, flatbed truck with compressor at left, machine in center possibly laying cable or anode wire for corrosion prevention; print date Apr 76]
Collection: B2014.028
B2017.020.019
[men working on road construction on C Street, laying cable or structural support down lane, sign in right background for Alaska Territorial Employment Service, sign at left for Board Room Meals, Ship Creek in distance]
Collection: B2017.020
B1962.001A.074
Malamoot Kid’s dog team in front of cable office, Valdez, Alaska. P.S. Hunt P61 [Tondro, Frank L.; Sled dogs; People; Houses and buildings; Valdez Mercantile Co.; Wheat, E. B.; Telegraph Office]
Keywords: Malamoot Kid, Malamute Kid, Dog teams, Sleds, Dogs, Animals, Transportation, Cable office, Offices, Buildings, Businesses, Valdez, Frank L. Tondro, Frank Tondro, Valdez Mercantile Co., Mercantiles, E.B. Wheat, Telegraph office, Street scenes
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1962.001A.74
Malamoot Kid’s dog team in front of cable office, Valdez, Alaska. P.S. Hunt P61 [Tondro, Frank L.; Sled dogs; People; Houses and buildings; Valdez Mercantile Co.; Wheat, E. B.; Telegraph Office]
Keywords: Malamoot Kid, Malamute Kid, Dog teams, Sleds, Dogs, Animals, Transportation, Cable office, Offices, Buildings, Businesses, Valdez, Frank L. Tondro, Frank Tondro, Valdez Mercantile Co., Mercantiles, E.B. Wheat, Telegraph office, Street scenes
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1998.014.1.2231
Alaska Shop - Alaska black bear "black bear & fence" [bear with collar and chain standing on hind legs on wood with paws around cable; appears to be a small box atop the wood support; structures and mouintain in distance, likely in Seward]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.955
(Enlarge) Alaska is 1/5 the size of the U.S., but has only 65,000 pop., because its vast
resources cannot well be developed until railways are built, and this is too costly for private
capital [map of Alaska with passenger ship route, cable and wireless stations, inset of United
States. With stamp of Dora Keen]
Keywords: map
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.955a
(Enlarge) Alaska is 1/5 the size of the U.S., but has only 65,000 pop., because its vast
resources cannot well be developed until railways are built, and this is too costly for private
capital [map of Alaska with passenger ship route, cable and wireless stations, inset of United
States. With stamp of Dora Keen]
Keywords: map note
Collection: B2015.008
B1970.028.035
At Wainwright we met 2 dancing polar bears. They are trained by very pasiant (sic) Eskimo. Polar Bears skinds (sic) were used by the Eskimos in ansiant (sic) times as garments when hunting on the Polar ice. This was perfect camouflage. [Two polar bear cubs are held by cables while a man holds a piece of fish or meat out to then. Alaska Native women and a Caucasian man stand in the background]
Collection: B1970.028 Eide