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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.
B1995.014.9.15
Helicopters landing in Marshall after World War II taking geologists to look for oil. There were no helicopters in Marshall until after the war. [Alaska Airlines helicopter on beach near lumber]
Keywords: aviation, petroleum industry
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.9.16
Helicopters landing in Marshall after World War II taking geologists to look for oil. There were no helicopters in Marshall until after the war. [helicopter flying low over river]
Keywords: aviation, petroleum industry
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.9.17
Helicopters landing in Marshall after World War II taking geologists to look for oil. There were no helicopters in Marshall until after the war. [helicopter flying low over river]
Keywords: aviation, petroleum industry
Collection: B1995.014
B1997.003.071
[two men wearing hats walking on wooden bridge, gloves, buildings in background, water at far left]
Collection: B1997.003
B1997.003.193
[view of piers, buildings; ship deck in foreground; cargo, including potatoes]
Collection: B1997.003
B2014.023.222
(glacier terminus, ice floes)[tidewater glacier]
Keywords: landscape, ice
Collection: B2014.023
B1983.091.S4176.32
Turnagain Subdivision. showing cracks in ground and houses that have slipped off of foundations.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1984.077.15.001
[timber, logs, floating, buildings, waterfront; mountains, clouds in distance. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.17.026
[Anchorage, overlooking Ship Creek, Government Hill, locomotive in distance, foundation? in foreground.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.21.007
[railroad tracks, river, bridge, mountain. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.104.2
Mt. Susitna, winter, taken from railroad tracks. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.048.197
[close up of woman, probably atop Empire State Building circa 1934]
Collection: B1991.048 Dr_ H_E_ Auringer Collection
B1995.014.113.12
[man pulling sled loaded with supplies]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.70.3
[scenic of broad river valley, trees in foreground, mountains in distance, probably Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.71.5
[soldier in rain coat and broad-brimmed hat posed outside large tent, Eugene Tetinek?]
Keywords: military, camping
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.82.15
[soldiers riding amphibious vehicle in winter, mountains in background]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.83.15
[scenic with tracks through snow in wooded area, mountain peak in distance]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.85.14
[soldier wearing snowshoes posed with snow gauge on snowy tundra, mountains in distance, Adak]
Collection: B1995.014
B1997.003.007
[man standing on platform of Bucyrus Erie mining equipment, shovel, watch on fob, building in distance]
Collection: B1997.003
B1997.003.023
[relocating building using continuous track vehicle, bulldozer, steel barrels, men in mid-ground, steam shovel]
Collection: B1997.003
B1997.003.058
[buildings and airplane in distance; tall grasses in foreground]
Collection: B1997.003
B1989.016.1853.1
[homestead in winter, with house, fence, tracks in snow, hoar frost on trees. cf. .1332.1]
Keywords: residences, houses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1853.2
[homestead in winter, with house, fence, tracks in snow, hoar frost on trees. same homestead as 1853.1, with more tracks on road]
Keywords: residences, houses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1855.2
(Mountains from new Seward Highway) [field in foreground, water in middle distance? snow-capped mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.43.11
Mail plane, Russian Mission [airplane on floats near river bank, pilot wading out to it, mountains across river in distance]
Keywords: aviation, postal services
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.43.12
[partially obscured view of man in ditch in wooded area with shovels, possibly digging drainage or water control ditch]
Collection: B1995.014
B1984.077.14.036
FBX [Street scene, Fairbanks, Chena River in right background, buildings]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.17.003
[Anchorage street scene; two men walk in alley, Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B1984.077