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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.Science.8.00630
Sub Arctic swamp often due to permafrosts.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.5.Science.13.29
Meat in ice cellar. Permafrost. 8 1974.
Keywords: food, ethnotechnology, cold
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Science
B2019.019.IB10-13
Ice Cellar (80' [feet] deep permafrost), 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Ice Cellars
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B1990.014.004.permafrost.jun70p4.32
[thawing permafrost. print date Jun 70 P4 no. 32]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.11570
Cabin settled 4ft in 8 years due to thawing of underlying permafrost.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.5.Science.13.32
Ice cellar at Wainwright. Permafrost. 8 1974 [man in bottom of hole]
Keywords: food, ethnotechnology, cold
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Science
B1990.014.004.14375
Acicular ice has formed a dome somewhat similar to a pingo. Foot Atigun Pass, so. 6-75. Photographer's number 14375
Keywords: permafrost
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.14821
Ice shown in wall of pipe ditch dug in fractured rock. Photographer's number 14821
Keywords: permafrost
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.42559
Thermal reduction of permafrost, hydraulic pressure has forced meltwater and silt to surface. Photographer's number 42559
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.08326
Eskimos dig rooms down into permafrost to make natural cold storage vaults. Photographer's number 08326
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.20168
Ice barely below tundra in some permafrost areas of arctic & subarctic Alaska. Photographer's number 20168
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.permafrosttunnel.large
A permafrost tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska. Cold weather engineers study ice lenses.[medium format slide]
Keywords: science, research
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1983.091.S4077.168a
1963, Anuaktuvuk Pass (cold storage in permafrost?) [Robert Paneak, ice cellar, probably cleaning up for the spring]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4077.169a
1963, Anuaktuvuk Pass (cold storage in permafrost?) [Robert Paneak, ice cellar, probably cleaning up for the spring]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.004.13768
Kobuk River makes cut into permafrost: peat solid frozen with many ice lens. Photographer's number 13768
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.17842
Communication damaged by frost action in permafrost area. Photographer's number: 17842. [print date Feb 79 P3]
Keywords: snow, communications, winter
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.4.Science.22.VU38592
Black spruce: Pice mariana, grows mostly in swampy or permafrost areas, Alaska. Visuals Unlimited number: 38592
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2016.007.1345
Entrance to a permafrost ice storage (a whole caribou deep inside), Herschel Island, Y.T., 8 August 1986 [entrance to subterranean cache]
Collection: B2016.007
B1990.014.3.103
Special insulation on pipe in transitional areas from above to below ground, especially in permafrost areas. This several miles south of Pump 1 at Prudhoe. [Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.3