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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1989.016.1956.1
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Ice Blocks, from Bootleggers Cove)[Cook Inlet, Sleeping Lady, as seen from Bootleggers Cove, Anchorage, AK.
Keywords: ice, mountains, inlet
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.005.141
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B1996.033.mccarty1
Jery McCarty, Fountain series, Rome, 1975. Cast concrete. 15 x 30 x 20. #2
Collection: B1996.033
B1990.014.5.P.2.28.8B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1998.014.1.1415
S20 Along an Alaskan Hiway (1946 postcard) [service men at river, possibly Matanuska River on Glenn Highway, cameras, tripod]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.004.20395
(Alyeska Oil Pipeline at the south fork koyukuk river It is 800 miles long 1.5 mill barrels)(20395)
Keywords: pipeline, brooks range, mountains
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B90.14.5.Logging.1.3.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.85
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2022.002.09
Reunion of Little Flower Academy Class of 1959, Left to right: Cal Williams, Hattie Fletcher, Patricia Lewis John, Lerner Rae Gordon, Corene Johnson, Darlene (Williams) Watson, Bernice Allen. [Cal Williams and high school classmates in yellow t-shirts with aqua lanyards. Handwritten note on back of photograph: School Reunion 2019, Class of 1959 Little Flower Academy]
Keywords: Cal Williams, Little Flower Academy, Hattie Fletcher, Patricia Lewis John, Lerner Rae Gordon, Corene Johnson, Darlene Watson, Bernice Allen
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1989.016.1813.1
4th Avenue, Anchorage. Hewitt's [bird's eye view, street scene of Fourth Avenue looking east to Chugach Mountains, with automobiles, pedestrians, and businesses including Crocker's, First National Bank, and federal building. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.P.2.25C.4B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1990.014.2018.1.258.001
80-1 May 1942 Pan X 12 min @ 68°; Barbara Enge [portrait in profile]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.221.006
69-3 view of Sitka and Mount Edgecumbe from [Mount] Verstovia; August 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1975.090.033
From verso: BuAer 78303 Aug 1943. Conference of US and Canadian Army and Navy Chiefs before the landing on Kiska.
Collection: B1975.090
B1995.014.94.4
Army drying fish for dogs [soldiers unloading carts full of processed fish and hanging them on drying rack]
Keywords: military, fishing, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.111
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.96
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.6.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 6
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.26
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.2106
Q13 Winter in Alaska; photo by Vern Brickley "(home)" [copy neg; same as .2105]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.25.12
F-E Co. 1942 [dredge at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1939.4
Spring Creek Lodge [roadhouse sign in foreground reads "Spring Creek Lodge Home Made Pies Short Orders Steak Sandwiches," log building in distance along curve in road. copy neg]
Keywords: roadhouses, roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection