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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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B1989.016.2146.4
#4 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [parade floats passing Richmond's Restaurant on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.39
Earthquake-Aiport, June 12,1964
Anchorage-some earthquake ARR Rehab after EQ 64 Edited May 20.1975
NP
Keywords: grocery store interior, checkout with customers buying products
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
b2015.027.84
[white man standing inside wooden structure divided into several kennels for dogs]
Keywords: animals, transportation
Collection: B2015.027
B1990.014.5.P.28.4.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P28
B2014.012.57
[well-dressed people roaming over hillside with flowers, snowy mountain peak in distance, Southcentral?]
Collection: B2014.012
B1989.016.1146.11
(Building Federal Building, Sept. 20, 1939) [walls going up at new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.93.10
[cemetery with Christian crosses, road at right, mountain in distance, Adak?]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2146.16
#16 (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by D.C. Hewitt) [spectators gathered outside of federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1195.3
Providence Hospital, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's 42 [exterior, front]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.288.18
Tonsina Lodge, Mile 80 Richardson Highway [roadhouse exterior with automobiles]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.3343
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [Savoonga; spring breakup scene; children on boardwalk and rooftops; snowmachines; structures, church in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.5.ConConv.27.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.5.40
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 5
B1990.014.5.P.28.7.21
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P28
B90.14.5.ARR.1.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1989.016.LinkkonenJohn.1
(Linkkonen John Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.18.8
(timber)(July 1966)(KP. Co. Thorne Bay. Portable Steel SPAR)(N.P.)(very good)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1