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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.2018.1.132.004
44-3 Bear in Doug Hager's home [taxidermied bear; likely March 1940; Seattle]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2016.005.068
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B1996.035.2.1088to1089
.1088—Inspection at hangar. Lt. Carmen in front. 3/29/47 [dog wandering in front of troops in formation] .1089—During quarantine [five servicemen on sofa, one holding pinup against wall]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_2_B6_F2_Kirby_Album
B1989.016.2294.17
(Elks' Lodge, Anchorage, interior of lounge with jukebox, August 1950)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.9063.jpg
[Joe Redington at podium with three other men; Kuskokwim 300 ceremony]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 9000-9999
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.9.18
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 9
B2016.019.1.06b.05617.16
Faith Baptist Church exteriors [Chruches - General], 2007
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Churches, Faith Baptist Church
Collection: B2016.019
B1998.014.1.280
B52 Paxson's Lodge and A.R.C. Camp, Richardson Hiway (1948) [cabins, hillside, road, gasoline pump]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.80
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2217
(Surf Cache) [photograph of a Sydney Laurence painting of a man at a camp fire with boat on shore, cache above, and surf on beach. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.ANC.5.118
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B1989.016.2209.3
#3. Hockey team, 1937. Hewitt's Photo Shop [portrait of Anchorage Aces team in uniforms, striped leggings and sweaters with pair of aces logo, posed on ice at outdoor rink, Anchorage]
Keywords: winter sports
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.78
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.77.005
28-5 totem [Pointing Figure totem; Saxman; September 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.052
Scn 18841; Air, Portage Glacier area showing Inn also; 12 October 1957; 5 12 July 1967. [aerial view of Portage Lake, icebergs near river outflow, valley in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.EQ.7.3.7
Earthquake follow up. men work Cordova repair of ruptured beam. Mac at Campbell Lake after dam broke. Edited May 20, 1975
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_7
B2006.023.7784
[Burled arch on Front Street in Nome, with banner: 12th Annual Iditarod Trail Race Anchorage to Nome 1,049 Miles, Olympia]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1995.014.80.6
[beaver cut tree stumps by small lake in wooded area]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1995.014
B2006.023.4425
Seafoods of Alaska Cash Buyer. Carousel labeled: Buying fish Pitkas Point. Joe Sr. fish buying.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1989.016.BrayfordMrsCecil.1
Brayford, Mrs. Cecil, Passport Photos, 1933
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1983.091.S0156.R23
Comm. Salmon Inds & Bristol Bay Salmon Fleet (Unloading fish, & inside cannery, Neg. R.56) No Date
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2017.011.154
Alaska ’47 – Sleitmut, air view of trading post and river tow [aerial of Sleetmute]
Collection: B2017.011