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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B2017.024.2143
King Island, copyright 1986 [three people in umiak filled with supplies: one man reads the Nome Nugget; woman at right; man in background wears blue hat and holds gun; water; sea ice]
Collection: B2017.024
B2015.008.844a
[bird’s eye view of climbers descending ridge, two men at left, one climber further
down ridge, dogs waiting at right, glacier valley below]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountains, glacier, crevasse, climbing, climbers, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.70.7A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.23.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1989.016.525.1
Camp Eielson [Mt. McKinley National Park]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.1.108.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.6.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1998.014.1.2030
Spenard & Fireweed Lane Business Section. T246 [intersection of roads, with automobiles and signs for businesses including Tri-Corner Service and Parker's Department Store]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.6.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.1B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.773
Kenai moose [copy neg of painting by Robert Lindneux]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.3388
[George and Phyllis McCutcheon standing next to Steve McCutcheon setting up camera tripod in village, children in front of houses at left, square wooden frame next to river at right]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.2261.2
[group portrait of Southeast Alaskan Natives in ceremonial dress, including Chilkat robes, headdresses, masks and beaded tunics, probably Tlingit. positive transparency. copy]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.004.25.28
Pipeline Pump 12, Adele French in pipeline, Bob & Adele French [at] Copper River, Chitina, 1975 [mine entrance]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.97.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1995.014.4.5
Marshall, 1934 [portrait of Alaska Native woman standing outside wood-frame building]
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1193
8. The Matanuska Valley from the air. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [river bed and glacier]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ANC.4.60
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_40_5_ANC_4
B1990.014.5.EQ.23.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_23