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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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B90.14.5.ANC.Air.27.92
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / B90.14.5.ANC.Air.27
B1990.014.5.AKNative.43.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.30.9
[bulldozers and heavy equipment in cleared area, buildings in distance, Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.People.14.49
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1979.002.4951
"8/22/1919 Dr C.C.G [Charles C. Georgeson] mixing with farmers" [sleeve 88; two men standing in grain field; agriculture, straw stack. Fairbanks vicinity; similar to .4688]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.54.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2024.003.200
[ARR 4320 at Nenana depot and industrial yard, Nenana Bridge in background. Likely 2004]
Keywords: Trainspotters, Alaska Railroad, ARR 4320, Nenana, Nenana depot, Depot, Industrial yard, Nenana Bridge, Tanana River, Machinery and equipment, Cranes
Collection: B2024.003 James T. Wilson Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.152.004
50-2 Basha against log on Pennock Is. Ketchikan in background; yellow filter [likely summer 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1984.077.22.001
[Depot? antlers,two men in midground, buildings in background, tower.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.NewtonAL.1
(Newton AL Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2015.008.1020
Our barns & snow-shoe track [view across snowy field to barns in distance, snowshoe
trail across field]
Keywords: farm, vermont
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.023.239
[group shot of men and women, reflection, man holding lamp in back]
Collection: B2017.023
B1987.071.028
[from verso] "cannieries" [caption is likely in Norwegian sending a greeting that the ship Alameda visited last Sunday, references "x" in upper left of building; steamship docked near cannery likely in Southeast Alaska]
Collection: B1987.071 Arnold Nelsen Collection
B1989.016.1960.1
(Bear Skins and hunters)[two men standing amongst a variety of furs and moose antlers with rifle]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.029.1997
[woman wearing Yup’ik headdress dancing with fans in gymnasium; print date Feb 77]
Collection: B2017.029
B1990.014.004.18026
Print Date Feb. 24, 1979 18026
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.2018.1.220.002
69-2; Cross Mt. from the "Castle" [view across water, likely Crescent Bay; near Sitka; August 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.50
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.079.1
Drum Mt. from Copper River near Happy's camp. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.8234
[Fishing boats Glacier Bear, Arctic Wolf, Miss Unalakleet, Big Kyak]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1979.002.4904
"711/1919, Oats on new clearing, wheat in background" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 35; agriculture, field, fence, trees in distance]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC