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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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B1990.014.2018.1.42.004
17-3 Ketchikan Spruce Mill fire, June 27th [1939, men gathered outside structure; men operating fire hose from rooftop; observers and lumber in foreground]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.99.108
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1979.002.Album1.302
D. L. Reaburn's camp. D. L. Reaburn [bird's eye view of white tents in a valley, termination dust on mountains in distance, railroad exploration party, Kenai Peninsula or Matanuska Valley, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.294.6
Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 18. Hewitt's. Cement pouring at 10 degrees.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.107.9
[two-story log cabin and outbuilding in winter, shoulder of road in foreground]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B2018.023.090a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “90” “Arctic Owls; A-340 [?]” [three owls on perches, likely taxidermy with fabric background; black and white]
Collection: B2018.023
B1979.002.Album1.112
R22-8. Jim Ryan [written on back: "Jim Ryan, Controller Bay." man and dog on wooden dock, hills in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2006.023.6409
[Vi Redington and children with crib on beach. Flat Horn Lake?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1983.091.S3178.041
Unalakleet, fish racks, 7-18-60 [fish drying on wood racks; structures in background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2006.023.5311
[Groundbreaking for Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.54
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.BesserWilliam
Besser, William, Passport Photos, 1942
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1998.014.1.1076
M16 Gold dredge near Nome, Alaska [copy neg; water, tailings, rocks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.001.035
Mayfield Evans with granddaughter, Jamila Evans Reynolds, November 1988. [Note on back: Grandaddy & Jamila, Nov 88]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Jamila Evans Reynolds, Granddaughter, Infant, Baby, Girl, Family, Grandpa, Grandfather, Family, House, Home, Interior, Room
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2011.007.8.78
Tanana River ice break-up, Tanana, 1920s.
Collection: B2011.007 Mary Breu Etta Jones Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.309.004
91-1 April 1943; Pan X; Nome [woman with one child on back and two other children poses on street; snow in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.640
E56 Eskimo 'Wolf Dance,' at Anchorage, Alaska [dancers in wolf head masks, gloves, crouch; people sit on table behind wof dancers, some in fur parkas; possible leader sits facing dancers; auditorium, stage, backdrop of sea and sea ice; label is taped to neg, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.17.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1517
#224. Russian Church, Sitka. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [side view of St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.393P
(Aeronautics_Disasters)(Zenith Z-6)
Keywords: airplane
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2016.04.640
Picking seal meat off the killing fields, Pribilof Is., AK [men with plastic buckets bending over carcasses, trucks in background; print date Jul 84]
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2018.023.096b
[verso of slide: scenic view of river, possibly Miles Canyon, Yukon River in Yukon Territory; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.331
(B67 Cordova Post Office) [street view, buildings, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.People.14.371
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1989.016.1499.2
(Star Airways, skis, 1936) [airplane ski set on wooden horse outside hangar or workshop in winter]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection