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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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B2015.008.468
Fortifications, P.R. [commercial postcard, with Dora’s typed caption: “San Juan Harbor, Porto Rico, Jan. 1928”]
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.014.57.6
[villagers meeting Consolidated Fleetster airplane on skis, tail number NC705Y, dog team with sled at right, Yukon River, possibly Marshall?]
Keywords: postal services, aviation, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.004.animals.24.36479
Reindeer: rangifer taranous[four reindeer, tundra, snow]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B1990.014.5.AKNative.4.64
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.39.18
[debris at site of airplane crash, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: aviation, aircraft accidents
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.029.2586
Tokosha Mt. Lodge [man sitting on Ski-Doo snowmachine on frozen lake; print date Apr 85]
Collection: B2017.029
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.1.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1989.016.VarraGeorge.1
Varra, George Passport Photos, 1942
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.87
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B2015.008.1003a
1922 [distant view of two men in field of flowering bean plants. Cf. .419. 2 copies]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.EQ.11.16.1
Night time scene of a house burning.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_11
B1990.014.5.AKNative.38.68.10B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.2.94
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.51.17
[military ships in harbor, boat docked at right, mountains in distance, Adak]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.61.14
[two soldiers using log ladder to cross crevasses]
Keywords: hiking, mountaineering, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.Album1.68
Oil house, A.N. Ry., 24' x 15'. Eugene Underwood [Alaska Northern Railway buildings next to curving track, sign reading Duke's Mixture Smoking Tobacco, mountains in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2021.004.95
Military portraits and photographs, and ephemera. Caption on verso: "Edward Patroling [sic] The Gate of Fort Greely" [Ed Wesley, Military Police, Anchorage]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Military, Police, Soldier, Patrol, Fort Greely, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1998.014.1.991
Aleutian volcanos [sic] L129 Aleutian scenery; Aleutian volcanoes aerial) [mountains, snow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.011.127
Alaska ’48 – Pilgrim River, warmth in the arctic drizzle [man and two women smoking cigarettes standing around camp fire, probably Binks and Hazel Siefert with Edie Cole]
Collection: B2017.011
B1990.014.004.animals.24.36479
Reindeer: rangifer taranous[four reindeer, tundra, snow]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B2017.024.3556
April 1968 [winter scene of two hunters wearing parkas, carrying guns; likely near Savoonga] slide #6170
Collection: B2017.024