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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.
Anchorage Museum Archive Image Search
The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
on Alaska and the Circumpolar North, with 94,942 items scanned and searchable online.
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B1998.014.1.125
A50 Reindeer, 1946 "Alaskan reindeer photo by E. Tetinek"
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
TV.202.11.4
08 21 70 Bringing ice to the schoolhouse which will be melted for drinking water. At village of Wainwright, Alaska
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1995.014.105.11
Rex Beach cabin, Yukon River, 1934 [log cabins along river]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.19.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.5882.jpg
[Sunrise or sunset]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B1989.016.2281.3.12
(Alyeska Olympic National Ski event, April 5, 1963. Section 4)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1595
(T14 Fairbanks, Alaska, waterfront) [Railroad depot, Railway Express Agency, "To Seward 470 M, Elevation 440 Ft" Garden Island Liqhor Store, bicycle, automobile in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.7821.jpg
[Start/Finish Jr. Iditarod Trail Race]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 7000-7999
B1989.016.679.6
[Star Airways airplane and men loading reindeer at Naknek, Alaska]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1112.3
P-97. Hewitt's (Palmer Buildings from Air) [construction site in foreground, Palmer School in middle ground, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1018.4
GZ-181 (Scenes in the Golden Zone) [hydroelectric supply ditch, valley, and West Fork of Chulitna, near area shown in .1018.3]
Keywords: mining, power generation, electricity
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B98.2.6
June 25th 1955, Panoramic Photograph of Fort Richardson Alaska
Keywords: 1955, Panoramic photograph; Fort Richardson, National Photo and News Service
Collection: B1998.002
B1983.146.119
Early Morning in the yards The S. L. Co.
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1979.002.Album1.23
M-45. Ice in Susitna. W. F. Milliken [small chunks of ice floating in Susitna River, mountains in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1995.014.42.4
[two hikers placing logs to cross crevasse]
Keywords: hiking, mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.96.004
35-3 McMillan children [girl posing for portrait; January 1940; likely Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1983.146.002
[Alberta Pyatt in fur parka posed in studio holding snowshoe] negative, print, postcard
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1975.090.3
U.S. Occupation of Amchitka, Aleutian Island, Alaska. A U.S. Navy Catalina (PBY A) raises a veritable cloud of mud as it comes to rest on the muddy landing field at Amchitka. [No date] 4 x 5 negative
Collection: B1975.090
B1989.016.1521.4
[reindeer tied to fence with rope, building visible in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1214.3
Midnight sun, Yukon River. Hewitt's Photo Shop [copy neg, same image as .1214.2]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.8425
(River Boat Nenana 10-1-1949)
Keywords: shipping, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.26.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B2001.002.53
Whittier and Edna Williams, ca. 1930. Quaker missionaries. See: Tomorrow is growing old, pg. 314. Copy negative, 4 x 5
Collection: B2001.002 FIC
B1979.002.Album1.273
R18-14 Alaska turnips [man standing in front of log structure with wheelbarrow filled with turnips; Ship Creek, circa 1914. cf. 296]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1995.014.49.13
[four men carrying poles or surveying equipment walking down beach in winter, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.45.38.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative