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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.
Anchorage Museum Archive Image Search
The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
on Alaska and the Circumpolar North, with 94,879 items scanned and searchable online.
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B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.72.15A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.32.32
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.21.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1979.002.Album1.49
M-15. Cadwell, Miles, Kuney, Gaddes. W. F. Milliken [four seated men posed in wooded area, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1990.014.5.TV.094.327.32
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1624.6
9. (Dedicating the Aurora Train, Alaska Railroad) [two MPs standing on platform next to Boy Scout, with train in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.017.014
Point Hope, 1972 [same dwelling as in .13, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2006.023.8240
[Fishing boats Glacier Bear, Arctic Wolf, Miss Unalakleet, Big Kyak]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1989.016.1540.5
[aircraft accident, man standing next to damaged airplane in field]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.134.47
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B2021.002.118
Slides with images of Fleming family visits to other Alaska communities.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1990.014.5.ConConv.19.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1998.014.1.740
"K11 McKinley Park, Horseback riding, Savage Camp" [military servicemen on horseback in meadow, river, tents in center distance, mountains, road in background, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.Album1.244
Break water dams at point below Twenty Mile Creek. P. S. Hunt J1852 [view down Alaska Northern Railway/Alaska Railroad tracks looking south, Turnagain Arm at right, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B90.14.5.ANC.6.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC.6
B1995.014.54.4
[Russian Orthodox church and graveyard in winter, Russian Mission? cf. .13.5-.13.6]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1737
(T70 Cordova Park) [Nirvana Park Cordova, Alaska, three children play in water, creek; toddler in right background sitting near tree stumps; possibly clothing on ground; bridge, burled post in center background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.017.1983.08.30
Always look a gift horse in the mouth - It may need a trip to the dentist Kincaid Nike Site Tues Aug 30, 1983
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, cartoons, comics, political
Collection: B2009.017
B1989.016.Laughlin.1
(Laughlin Passport Photos 1935-36)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos