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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.2018.1.54.006
22-1 Aug. 1939; Super x - 32-20; Dev in DK 20-28 min @ 65 degrees; Pat Thomas [woman standing on roadway wearing trousers, jacket, headscarf; low wall and trees in background; likely near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.97.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1990.014.2018.1.42.002
17-3 Ketchikan Spruce Mill fire, June 27th [1939, men and boy gathered outside structure; lumber; sailors; men on stairway; smoke]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2028.2
(Mt McKinley) (copy)[Denali and the upper Muldrow Glacier as seen from the north side]
Keywords: mountains, glacier
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.3539.jpg
10 Alkines Knik Lake 1973
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B1998.014.1.653
F2 Drying salmon, Copper River [similar to .652, but with flipped view, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.068
Scn 10669, CPS; Linda Chavis at Portage Glacier; 20 July 1968; glacier. [woman posed sitting on rock in lake, waving, icebergs, glacier]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.2141.23
D-25 [village in winter, with low scrub brush and view to unbroken horizon]
Keywords: villages
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.21
E-38 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.032b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [label] “74” [verso of slide: child wearing fur parka, mukluks with left hand reaching toward face stands near structure; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2017.011.132
Alaska ’47 – Juneau, salmon sport fishing craft out of Auke Bay, Hebert Glacier background [two men fishing from boat]
Collection: B2017.011
B1979.002.4926a
"8/8/1919 Erickson wheat fields. 35 bushels per acre" [sleeve 62; man standing in wheat field, log structure at left, agriculture, trees in background, Fairbanks area]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1995.014.19.3
[portrait of dog in harness lying on snow next to pack, skis, and ski poles, mountains in distance]
Keywords: sports, transportation, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1748
T74 City Park, Ketchikan, Alaska [scenic view of park, rock wall, pond, fountain, trees, paths]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.36
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2015.008.1283.dk232.3crop
232.3. Brunonian Glacier. 9.12.14 [climber standing near crevasses, roped up to second
climber, just out of frame at right]
Keywords: mountain, mountaineering, glacier, climbing, crevasse
Collection: B2015.008
TV.202.5.9a
(Eskimo hunters of Wainewright have just brought in two walruses local kids play on the beached walruses)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1991.011.457a
Fish fence across the Willidulli Slough, Kasigluk [view of skiffs on water]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection