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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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B1998.014.1.2408
"Bread - slices with holes; doll in hole (2 taped negs)" [composite image; same as .2406]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
TV.202.12.7
21 Aug 1970 Eskimo village of Wainwright (8 negs)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.2074.11
5. 5 (Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954) [musher with bib #9 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Crocker's, Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon, Pacific Northern Airlines. double numbered]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.017
2238 (9_17_14)(10am)(Bryn Mawr Glacier from camp){boat floating in fiord as seen from camp with mountains in background}
Keywords: Prince William Sound, Glaciers, College Fiord, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.014.17.10
[portrait of dog next to Russian Orthodox cross grave marker, ice filled river in background, possibly Yukon River]
Keywords: religion, animals, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.014
B2006.023.6482.jpg
Joe Redington Sr.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2019.003.028
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Near the school [scenic] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, Education, U.S. Government, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Mountain, Mountains, Mountain range, Scenic view, Near school
Collection: B2019.003
B2012.006.631
[men in military uniform inside electrical room at radar site, identified in 2014 as Unalakleet Air Force Station personnel with equipment in the background; no date]
Collection: B2012.006
B2015.008.905c
[bird’s eye view of town along railroad, tracks in foreground, water tank and railroad
station at left, with wood-sided buildings, walled tents and log cabins, Chitina? 3 copies]
Keywords: railroad, cabins, mountain, town
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2266.5
(Air shots, Juneau to Anchorage, October 1, 1945) [scenery]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2047
V2 Alaska grown "Fairbanks cabbage/turnips 1st prize [copy neg; scale reading over 17 pounds]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.45.11
[winter view across frozen flat to storage tanks in distance, man carrying lumber near building at right, Adak?]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.StateBattle.2.2.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.StateBattle
B1995.014.39.5
[snowmachine pulling men and packs up slope, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: transportation, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.BrownVic.1
Brown, Vic, Passport Photos, 1933
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.4.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 4
B1983.091.S1450.47
NCL trip: Father Edward & Hooper Bay native children, 8/12/53 [posed on steps of church]
Keywords: religion
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
AEC.G659
A.E.C. G659 Baker and Co.'s Camp Station 9800
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1983.091.S1450.90.15
(NCL TRIP: (Goodnews Bay Mining Co. Series Baseball on the Tundra" Children at Platinum)(090-15 view of children at game)
(Stock 1450-090-15)(08/12/53)(158negs)[8 children playing baseball on the tundra with oil drums visibile in the background]
Keywords: children, baseball, games, tundra, recreation
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock