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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B90.14.5.Anc.Air.1.40
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 1
B1989.016.1271.3
Alaskan moose. Hewitt's [same as .1271.1. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2059.6
(All-America City Award, 1965, at Sydney Laurence Auditorium) [conferring of award at podium]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.019.58
Misha & Tony [Alaska Native man and young boy sitting on snowmachine, man wearing sunglasses and fur-lined hat with earflaps; print date May 79]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.019
AEC.G594
Steam shovel at mile 104. A.E.C. G594 P.S. Hunt
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1990.014.5.People.14.136.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1998.014.1.1657
T41 Fourth Avenue - Anchorage, Alaska [similar to .1648; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.ARR.1.229
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1990.014.2018.1.113.004
41-2 Ken & Fritzie [man with boy on lap reads from book "Simple Simon" March 1-3, 1940; Seattle, Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.010.6136b
[interior of bathroom, with sink, mirror, curtains on window, 1950s]
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.5.People.13.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 13
B1990.014.5.TV.083.76.5.3B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.2055.41
41 (July 4, 1938, parade) [Alaska Sawmill Corp. float, General Motors truck loaded with lumber, man standing on top]
Keywords: logging, industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.5316.jpg
[Groundbreaking for Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2014.003.50
[inside passage scenery photographed from a ship that is underway through a chain of islands]
Collection: B2014.003
B1989.016.836
P-391. 8/31/36. Hewitt's Photo Shop [homestead with hay field in foreground, Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.5523
Laurie & Lisa [with parade float, Iditarod the trail for all seasons]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2014.028.439
[large instrument on road shoulder, with gauges and hoses; print date Apr 73]
Collection: B2014.028
B1990.014.5.AKNative.6.21
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.BlackburnHT
Blackburn, H. T., Passport Photos, 1942
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1989.016.764.2
P-446. The Matanuska Valley Fair, 9/7/36. Hewitt's Photo, Anchorage [boy with calf covered with blanket reading Midnight Sun 4-H Club, Lily of the Valley, Palmer]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1971.014.005
[from verso] Berry pickers [three women sitting on ground laughing; one womar pointing; bucket; 1923 scrapbook or album; copy print]
Collection: B1971.014 CIHS Grube Collection
B1989.016.2298.19
(Chitina) [frame of abandoned building, wagon wheels in foreground]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection