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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.People.14.103
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B2015.008.932
[man standing in mine entrance in wooded area, shovels and picks propped against
earthen walls]
.931 – [two men standing in same mine entrance as in .930]
.932 – [similar to .931]
.933 – [similar to .931]
Keywords: mine, miners, mining
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.2018.1.45.003
18-6 man on dock [1939; man smoking pipe; structures across water]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1963.016.074
[Alaska Native woman with sled dog team, Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. Fourth Avenue street scene with businesses including J. Vic Brown & Sons Jewelers, Dr. L.W. Hines Optometrist, Food Center, Crocker’s Dept. Store, Lee’s Menswear. Gordon Henning, Anchorage Times, photographer]
Collection: B1963.016 Marie Silverman
B1990.014.5.AKNative.22.28.2A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.962
P-566. (Valley Farming, Strawberries) [man crouched in cultivated field, homestead buildings in background, Matanuska Valley]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.146.4
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Alaska [Christmas card with Sydney Laurence painting from .146.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.DickensRoy.1
[Dickens,Roy Passport Photos 1934-35]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.People.14.182
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.5.AKNative.38.70.9B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.2568
"Kenai Highway; Mi 15-17; creek & mts/6 negs" [likely Seward Harbor Resurrection Bay, rocky shoreline; neg has damage on emulsion to right and below tallest mountain peak]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1672.4
(Near Eklutna) [scenery with trees, mountains, log cabin just visible at left]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.133
[two soldiers at camp fire in winter, snowshoes and rifle in snow at left. copy neg and contact print only]
Keywords: military, camping, arms, footwear
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.391
B102 Old Russian Church at Kenai, Alaska [small church, trees, fence, road in foreground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.102
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B2006.023.5065.jpg
Fur Rendezvous sled dog races, Fourth Street, Anchorage.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.74
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B1989.016.JacobsonMrsJR.1
(Jacobson Mrs JR Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1995.014.51.8
[pig farm, man in field at right, unidentified location]
Keywords: animal husbandry
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.EQ.18.15.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_18
B1990.014.004.17504
River is freezing gradually solid in the cold of late November. Photographer's number: 17504
Keywords: winter, rivers
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.23
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.928.1
P-541. Palmer Day, Palmer, Alaska, 5/15/37. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [children dancing in yard, buildings and water tower in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.14.44
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative