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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.69.14B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2014.023.174
(military town)[large encampent situated in the mountains]
Keywords: military, housing, barracks
Collection: B2014.023
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.46
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.39.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.1.51
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 1
B1995.010.3156
[village scene, with Alaska Native boy pushing puppy dog in wheelbarrow, another dog at left, heavy equipment at right, cabins in background]
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.5.P.28.5.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P28
B2022.001.139
Letter to E&S Diversified Services at U. S. Coast Guard Base, Ketchikan, Alaska from U.S. Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard, signed by Michael L. Dorsey, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard Commanding Officer, Coast Guard Base Ketchikan, March 2, 1994, with letter from Commanding Office USCGC Naushon dated February 24, 1994
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Letter, E&S Diversified Services, U.S. Coast Guard, Base, Ketchikan, Alaska, U.S., DOT, Department of Transporation, Dept. of Transportation, Michael L. Dorsey, Michael Dorsey, Captain, Commandig Office, USCGC, Naushon
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1989.016.BrownsonJT.3
Brownson, J. T., Passport Photos, 1942
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.TV.094.240.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.2192
[photograph of receipt for six hundred dollars received by W.J. Rowe Transfer from Phil Holland for the two horse team lost in lagoon at Port Safety, Alaska, on October 28th, 1914]
Keywords: banking, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.171.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.19.4b
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.141.002
47-3 Basha's pictures - taken with Grace & Dorothy [two women standing in roadway; water and trees in background, likely May 1940, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.011.144
Alaska ’48 – Aniak, Rep. Len Hall of N.Y. with pike [Leonard W. Hall holding fish]
Collection: B2017.011
B1990.014.5.ConConv.02.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.34.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1973.079.91
[three women dressed in traditional fur winter parkas standing on boardwalk in front of house]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.244
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.184.006
60-6; Staps [January 1941; Ketchikan; woman walking up outdoor stairway; snow]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.People.20.19
(People Rondy McClain Rendezvous Queen Mclain-viewing Rollei Exhibit at YMCA)(Rollei Rolliflex camera and plates exhibit at Rondy)
Keywords: FurRondy
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People