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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.5.EQ.17.15
4th Ave Destruction in front of the D&D Bar and Sportsmans Club after EQ 27 March 1964
Keywords: construction, demolition, damaged buildings, streets, boxes, people
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.96
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.010.161
[bird’s eye view of locomotive and freight cars coming off wooden trestle bridge and into section house in winter, man standing next to building in foreground]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.72.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2047.3.6
(US Air Force airplane down in Cook Inlet, January 30, 1957) [Douglas C-124C Globemaster II in water. 35mm neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1962.001.0021
Camp on Chititu ’03. [Chititu Creek; Gold mines and mining – Nizina District; Camps and camping] [Chititu Creek south tributary of Nizina River]
Keywords: Camp, Camping, Chititu Creek, Chititu, Creek, Tributary, Gold mining, Mining, Nizina District, Nizina River, Forest, Woods, Mountain
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.6.24
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 6
B1990.014.5.AKNative.16.40.37
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.132.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B1990.014.2018.1.61.002
24-1 Aug 1939 Panatonic X - 32-20 Dev in DK20 - 20 min @ 70 degrees; Gus Olin [man wearing cap with street scene in background; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2006.023.5899.jpg
[Sunset, Mt. Susitna]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2022.005.207
[Five Indigenous Alaskan women with child outdoors midwinter] [AFN 2023, people identified as Mrs. Harold Ahmasuk (far left), May (second from left), Helen Senungetuk (possibly Simoneak, center), and Maggie Komonaseak (far right); location identified as Kiŋigin (Wales), possibly 1950s]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Family, Elder, Elders, Grandma, Grandmother, Woman, Women, Child, Toddler, Outside, Winter, Snow, House, Home, Building, Buildings, Community, Parka, Fur, Clothing, Outerwear, Kiŋigin, Kinigin, Wales, Inupiaq, Inupiat, Harold Ahmasuk, Amosak, Helen Senungetuk, Helen Simoneak, Maggie Komonaseak
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.1416
[SS Sackett's Harbor, ship docked at Anchorage port on Ship Creek in winter. Circa 1946. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.037.025
.25 – Men at Base, Flyers [similar tundra and hut scene as .23a and 23.b, one pilot stands in heavy flight pants outside huts, possibly Adak]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B1990.014.5.People.14.321.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1989.016.1989
Anchorage Alaska Hewitts Photo (Anchorage April 22, 1954 6mm lens)[aerial view of downtown Anchorage]
Keywords: aerial, streets, houses, urban, cars
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.3.25
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1989.016.2068.7
(Cub Scouts, 9/19/??) [woman standing with young boys in Cub Scout uniforms in front of man at microphone wearing Native American Indian-style dress, in large hall during ceremony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1962
T197 A June mid-night on Anchorage's 4th Avenue [same as .1961]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.790.t19
T19 [view across glacier to snow-covered mountain, probably Harvard Glacier. has
neg]
Keywords: mountains, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B90.14.5.ARR.1.75
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1990.014.5.AKNative.25.54
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative