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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
on Alaska and the Circumpolar North, with 95,683 items scanned and searchable online.
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B1993.020.564b
Rainbow, 31st & Dawson St. looking east, 1968 [street scene, Anchorage]
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1998.014.1.2074
V9 Vegetable display at Ninilchik Fair [sliced cabbages and other vegetables on table in classroom; school desks in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.788
T16 [view down fjord with icebergs and several tidewater glaciers, probably College
Fjord]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1996.033.mccarty27
Jerry McCarty, Cluster series, 1987. Untitled, Cadena. 31 x 18. Ink and charcoal. #16
Collection: B1996.033
B1990.014.5.AKNative.5.52
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2016.024.033
Ketchikan, Apr. ’53 [Eagle totem and human figure on post]
Keywords: Totems, Ketchikan
Collection: B2016.024
B2018.023.022b
Alaska SS Co. [verso of slide: Alaska Steamship Company; two men, wearing parkas, gloves pose with walrus heads; one uses a knife; skin boat in background; snow; ice; water; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.6.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 6
B2015.008.311
After the potato digger, Sept. 1917. All to be picked up by hand, that night [potatoes lying in rows in field]
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.331.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.1933
Eastchester's Business Section, 15th to 13th St. on Gambell. T 178 [North Star Motel]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.953
A winter outing in Alaska. 3A396, LHP [photographic postcard. Dog team on winter trail,
two women and child in sled basket, musher on runners, photographer’s shadow in
foreground]
Keywords: winter, dogs, mushing
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2184.1
12. (Dog races, 1955) [Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, female musher with bib #2 leading seven-dog team down Fourth Avenue at E Street past spectators, police car in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.3523.jpg
Copyright J. Schultz.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B1989.016.2093.2
Alaska, Greetings from the Northland [Christmas card mat with sketch of winter cache and photograph of husky dog]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.91
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.P.4.37.12
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P4
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.98
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1601.8
123. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [women hanging wash on clotheslines between walled tents, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1962.001A.7
P.S. Hunt, E54. McKinley Street, Valdez, from Keystone Ave., 1900 [Houses and buildings. Plate damaged]
Keywords: McKinley Street, Valdez, Keystone Avenue, Street scenes, Houses, Buildings, Communities, Businesses, Pedestrians
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1994.003.028
Landing sheep, Afognak. Laurence [men transporting sheep in three small boats]
Collection: B1994.003
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.117.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1990.014.2018.1.285.005
88-1; Feb 1943; Plus X; snow scene [bird's-eye view of downtown Ketchikan with Thomas Basin boat harbor in lower left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1972.041.13
P.S. Hunt The "Opera House" (Saloon) at Copper Center Nov. 28-[18]98.
Collection: B1972.041 AHFAM McDade