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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1979.002.Album1.25
R32-3. Headquarters Office [two- and one-story buildings, man sitting on stump in foreground, tent at far left, Ship Creek? railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1995.014.40.12
[climbers setting up base camp, snowmachine at left, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: transportation, camping, mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B90.14.5.ARR.2.131
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1990.014.5.P.28.7.28.9.18
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P28
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.30.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1989.016.1263.1
18. Mountain sheep, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
AEC.G1882
AEC G1882 (start of Hurricane Bridge Construction)
Keywords: train, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1974.040.009
Unloading off Army cargo at Seward, 1940, Alaska RR dock [automobile being hoisted off Alaska Steamship Co. ship, soldiers in uniform on decks]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection
B1990.014.5.P.27.61.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P27
B2018.023.059b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: winter scene of two people with sledge, ski poles, supplies, flag, snowshoes; mountains and valley in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2015.019.49
[Sarah and Jimmy Albert posed with two young Alaska Native men, standing on dirt road in front of house; print date Sep 78]
Collection: B2015.019
B1998.014.1.397
B110 New Hospital, Palmer, Alaska [view of entrance, foliage in foreground, mountain in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.002.013
Margaret Fleming, 27 years old, with son Greg, 3 years old, Fairbanks, 1957.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Margaret Fleming, Fairbanks, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1989.016.364.6
Seeder at work. Matanuska Project. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5503
[Alaska Marine Highway ferry, possibly Taku, at dock, Russian Orthodox cross in cemetery in foreground; print date Dec 75]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.007.177
[six Alaska Native boys posed outdoors next to wooded-sided building. In manuscript on verso: “[illegible] Anagrok [illegible] gave it to [illegible] picture are [illegible] boys, Unalakleet, Alaska, Nov. 28, 1[cropped]”]
Keywords: clothing, education
Collection: B2015.007
B1983.091.S4501.307
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 4/67 [woman making mask, child sleeping on bed]
Keywords: art
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B90.14.5.ANC.Air.27.25
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / B90.14.5.ANC.Air.27
B1998.014.1.1739
Main Street, Cordova, Alaska (T71) [street scene, similar to .1738; automobile driving on street, boy crossing street, women on boardwalk at right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.GandofoML.1
[Gandofo ML Passport Photos 1942]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2018.023.095a
[label] “5” [scenic view of mountains; lake in foreground; black and white]
Collection: B2018.023
B90.14.5.ARR.2.5.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1985.027.1688
Originally in B5 F118. Wien Destimations. Selby Lake. 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.19.16.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_19
B2015.008.644
173.3. Passing Alaska-Yukon boundary post 30 m. below head of White River, 6.14
[view across low brush in flat, horses standing at right near wooden marker. Print cropped,
with loss of caption]
Keywords: horses
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.ConConv.15.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1957.005.181
Eagle River bridge mile 127 1/2. A.E.C. R[ailwa]y. AEC H56 HGK. Verso: WWI 1917-1918 [looking across bridge, with man wearing mosquito netting on bridge, workmen below]
Keywords: AEC, A.E.C., Alaskan Engineering Commission, Alaska Railroad, Railroad, Railway, Eagle River, River, Bridge, Mile 127, WWI, Man, Mosquito net, Workmen, Workers, Crew
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd