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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.
B2009.037.041
[same scarf woman as .39, standing on top of lumber]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B2009.037.047
[woman in polka-dot shirt standing in park]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B2009.037.042
[same woman as .41, now seated on top of wooden pilings]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B2009.037.037
[woman wearing kerchief is posed in front of trees, autumn scene]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B2009.037.035
.35 – [woman adjusting her shoe in front of building]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B2009.037.046
[same woman with scarf posing against a building]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.89.006
32-2; portrait of K.C. [Kenneth] Britt [man wearing suit poses with ciagarette and polka-dot toy elephant on staircase; Thanksgiving; November 23, 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.89.006
32-2; portrait of K.C. [Kenneth] Britt [man wearing suit poses with ciagarette and polka-dot toy elephant on staircase; Thanksgiving; November 23, 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.024.2069
King Island, copyright 1986 [five men, hunters, with guns, binoculars; walruses in foreground; water, snow, ice in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.8.001
Frances Jones [woman wearing corsage standing at ship's rail; shore in distance; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.8.001
Frances Jones [woman wearing corsage standing at ship's rail; shore in distance; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.024.2009
Kenai Peninsula, April 1969 [log cabin and cache; caribou antlers; supplies hanging under gable end; snowshoes; saw; fuel cans; spruce tree leaning aganist roof; weather reporting equipment (?) atop antenna tower; ladder; mountains in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2015.007.47
[Alaska Native woman wearing fur parka with geometric trim holding infant, standing outdoors in winter in front of house, church tower in background]
Keywords: residences, clothing, children
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.1502.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [McGee Airways Bellanca CH-300 airplane tail number NC874M on ground at Merrill Field in Anchorage in winter, with hangar and automobile in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.86.2
Truck going to Wonder Lake [soldiers riding in two military vehicles on road in winter, man crouched in snow at right taking photograph, Adak]
Keywords: photography, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.1121
Aug61P Barrow [State Trooper squats while interacting with children outside the Point Barrow Trading Post; furs hanging on line; parkas; structures; automobile in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Children, Alaska State Trooper, Point Barrow Trading Post
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.2260
"Mink on rack, 1942 (under cache)" [similar to .2257; snowshoes; note deterioration of negative in form of spots]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.047a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [men, women, children pose; summer; possibly Interior Alaska or Siberia; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.047b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: men, women, children pose; summer; possibly Interior Alaska or Siberia; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023