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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.
B1990.014.4.SCN.21.17159
Copper River with the Chugach Mts. Behind.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2014.023.218
(pine trees in the foreground river valley in distance)[landscape]
Keywords: landscape, tree
Collection: B2014.023
B2015.008.370
George clearing the ice for the ice plow [George on frozen river, using wooden push blade, sled on runners in background. cf. .337-338]
Collection: B2015.008
B1973.079.161
[Mrs Cron and Alma standing on boardwalk with stroller]
Keywords: child, mother, woman, toddler
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.014.004.Slum.Block1984
Anchorage: This area was ultimately destroyed due to alchohol and STR people March 5 1984 Historic Slum Block
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2014.003.39
[colored lantern slide of the terminous of a tide water glacier with ice bergs floating in the foreground]
Collection: B2014.003
B2014.003.4
13805 (Victor Animatograph Co.)(dog and sled) [colored lantern slide showing dog team with musher and passenger in basket team stopped on trail ice flow and mountains in the background]
Keywords: mushing, dogs
Collection: B2014.003
B2014.003.40
Taku Glacier Alaska LaRoche[colored lantern slide of the Taku Glacier in Alaska]
Collection: B2014.003
B1989.016.2021.2
(Oblique of Fourth Avenue,1959)(8x10 cropped)(original 4x5 negative)(original 11x14 filed in overzies photo box)[A view of downtown Anchorage looking down 4th Ave towards the Chugach Mountains]
Keywords: urban, streets, street lights, street signs, water tower, apartment building
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.381.4
Ice hockey team, Anchorage, 1939 [Fairbanks-Dawson]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1045
M8 gold mining in Alaska (hydraulic shots) [similar to .1041]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.612
{panoramic photo of Mt Blackburn and surrounding peaks and glaciers}{copy of image B2015_008_610}
Keywords: glacier, Mt Blackburn, mountains, panoramic
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.004.33496
A photographer worries about a rising storm on the ice of the Arctic seas. Photographer's number: 33496. Print date Nov 86.
Keywords: winter, weather, clothing, photography
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.4.SCN.21.17280
The Copper River near the confluence of the Big Tonsina River.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1998.014.1.2550
"Army Corps of Engineers" [man standing within scaffold or tower structure that is covered in ice. Adjoining building with door]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.147
[Mr and Mrs Cron along with two other women and an unidentified officer]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.014.4.MF.AkNative.22.18477
Eskimo children. Photographers' number 18477 [print date Jun 64]
Keywords: children, clothing
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / Medium Format
B1989.016.1311
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Railroad Yards) [bird's eye view of buildings, railroad tracks, utility poles, possibly Fairbanks? One building painted "Pacific Grocery Co Wholesale." smoke or storm clouds on horizon]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.184
(93014)(1010am)(Treees seen in 25310)(Columbia Glacier)
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.023.244
[Six people posing on steps, sidewalk,snow, sailor, W. Wellenstein standing behind sailor, girl, man, two women.]
Collection: B2017.023
B2015.008.369
Our turkeys [turkeys in yard in winter, wheeled cart next to outbuilding in background]
Collection: B2015.008
B2018.023.078a
[steamships the Dawson and the White Horse docked on a river, likely the Yukon River; people on decks and moving freight; stern wheelers; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.2018.2
Romig Hill, Spenard, Alaska Hewitt's Drug Photo(L St Apts from Romig Hill, Anchorage 1955)(copy 8x10 print)
Keywords: cars, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.256.2
The Tanana River clearing of ice at Nenana after the 1940 break-up. Photo by Charles Wilson.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.002.22
[woman wearing fancy parka holding Christmas stocking filled with fruit and candy, 1956-57]
Collection: B2017.002
B2015.008.008
(Mile 18){dog walking along railroad tracks}
Keywords: pets, railroad
Collection: B2015.008
B1973.079.162
[unidentified group of people dressed in winter clothes in front of Russian blockhouse, St Michael]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.014.4.MF.Sci28.5127
Alaska is a land of contrasts tourists find hard to believe. Photographer's number: 05127 [Miss Alaska Jane Haycraft and Linda Chavis, champion skier, with fireweed, near Portage Glacier]
Keywords: wildflowers
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / Medium Format
B2007.005.6.B12
[man standing by three large poles submerged in the ice]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2014.023.430
[Jeanne Laurence standing in front of lodge, moose and caribou antlers mounted on roofline, parrot sitting in antlers over doorway, neon sign for Grain Belt beer at left, mountains in background. Print date Aug. 67]
Collection: B2014.023
B2019.003.103
Anvik River during breakup [scenic of water filled with ice chunks]
Collection: B2019.003
B1990.014.4.M13.17754
Drift net fisher in Cook Inlet Print Date Jul 1972
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2006.8
(Russian Aleut graves , Eklutna 1955)
Keywords: graves, church
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2009.2
(Alaskan Sawmill, Goat Creek, 1955)
Keywords: lumber mill, resource extraction, lumber, wood
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection