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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.
Anchorage Museum Archive Image Search
The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1998.014.1.1143
(O22 Snow flowers; 1942-43 winter; 1946 postcard) [trees, spruce, birch, snow on branches]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.025.822
[International bucket truck, or cherry picker, suspended from crane, Port of Anchorage]
Collection: B2015.025
B2015.008.1008
Mineola, L.I., 1927. George & Mrs. Steger [George and woman standing next to
biplane tail number 1043. Cf. .975 et seq. Excised from photo album]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1851.1
(Dog Malchiska of Kenai, Lu's Dog, name means "Loving Little Boy," Feb. 24, 1952) [studio portrait of dog]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.ConConv.03.20
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.EQ.25.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_25
B90.14.5.ANC.4.37
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_40_5_ANC_4
B2000.014.859
(859)Kehoe farm John Kehoe Ed John Reilly Tanana Sep 6 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1998.014.1.316
B63 (Elmendorf Air Terminal) [terminal building, tarmac]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.60.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2018.023.046a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [woman wearing kuspuk and mukluks carries a baby on her back as she walks through sand; canvas wall tents, structures, clotheslines in background; possibly Nome; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
AEC.G481
AEC G481 P.S. Hunt AEC RY Power House Anchorage Terminal [Engineer standing next to large power generators within the power house terminal]
Keywords: energy
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.2
Guard at David home
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B1995.010.6063
5/27/46 [George posed with two dogs next to road, log house and other houses in background, photographer’s shadow in foreground, Anchorage Fairview neighborhood, 1940s]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1039
M5 Clearing ice from gold dredge pond (PC mask ends 1946 postcard) [winter scene; four men, steam, cutting ice, ice suspended from dragline, utility lines, strutures in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.5.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1984.077.16.006
[street scene, Anchorage, Third Avenue, Elks Lodge, houses, automobiles, Cook Inlet, Mount Susitna in distance]
Collection: B1984.077
B2016.007.599
75-608. Homer, Alaska, red baneberry, actea rubra, August 1975, Konica
Collection: B2016.007
B2015.008.1200
An “ekka”, the usual native conveyance “up country” in India. Law limits the capacity to six, which seems to be the usual number. Space really for only one. I had to ride to an out of the way palace at Jeypore in one yesterday. At Kapurthalla our 3 trunks and 4 bags went 7 m. in one for 50 cts. [three men riding in horse-drawn cart]
Collection: B2015.008
B90.14.5.AncAir.22.6.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 22
B1990.014.5.Scn.8.18.002
Hubbard Glacier; AIR; Veniaminof trip. Mt Veniaminof: caldera is full of ice yet a cinder cone shows on the glacier. Shot for National Park Service 1972. Hammond (later Governor) was pilot on this project. About August 1972 [not Hubbard Glacier; Alaska Peninsula, mountains, river valley]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2009.009.95
[girls posed with dahlias outside house, Mountain View, 1920-1930s]
Keywords: gardens
Collection: B2009.009
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.TV.089.120.3.3C
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.164
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B2017.023.185
[three men, service men, playing horseshoes, buildings in background]
Collection: B2017.023