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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.
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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1989.016.2364
"A Denali Ram," Joseph S. Dixon 1926
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B90.14.5.ARR.1.49
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1989.016.375.5
General Fish docks, Anchorage [actually bluff along Cook Inlet with houses; Bootleggers Cove? Turnagain?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.002.26
[children playing next to drying rack, buildings in background, 1956-57]
Collection: B2017.002
B2021.010.212
[1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection
B1998.014.1.2024
T240 5th Ave., Anchorage, Alaska [Street scene; people crossing street at stoplight; automobiles; 5th Avenue Hotel, L and J Pianos Organs Music; Bigler's; May's Cafeteria; Hoyt Motor Co.; 5&10; Echmann's Furniture; C. James Hopper; likely the First Presbyterian Church (5th & F)]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.2.50
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.29.18
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.076
A30 moose in water, McKinley National Park [possible beaver pond, dam]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.136
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1989.016.2078.7
8 (Fur Rendezvous Parade, 2-22-58) [military unit marching down Fourth Avenue passing spectators and businesses including Rexall Drugs, Hewitt's Drugs, Zenith Radio, Cheechako Tavern]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.66
[Indigenous girl without coat outdoors midwinter]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girl, Child, Braids, Hairstyle, Winter, Snow, Ice, Landscape, Mountain, Range
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.143
Scn 8257; Portage Glacier & boss; 25 September 1958. [woman sitting on boulder at lake edge photographing, icebergs, lake, glacer, mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1993.020.1154
(Anchorage, AK)(1957)(JAck Goodman Derby)(Soap box derby){variety of kids and their soap box race cars}
Keywords: soap box, derby
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B2006.023.5538.jpg
[Ice and gravel on the south fork of the Kuskokwim River. Cf. #3908]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2022.001.150
Letter to Mayfield Evans from Gary Miller, November 23, 1996
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Letter, Gary Miller, Gary and Susan Miller, Award, Awards Ceremony, National Philanthropy Day, Luncheon, Community
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection