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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.P.27.74.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P27
B1995.014.87.11
[two-story log cabin in wooded area, river or lake in background]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.80.006
29-4; sentinel [scenic view of mountains with weathered and twisted tree in foreground; above Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.96.3
[small trees after planting, surrounded by burlap for protection, Adak]
Keywords: military, agriculture
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.ConConv.12.30
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.TV.083.143.2.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.MacDonaldDon.1
(MacDonald Don Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2014.023.221
(low clouds on hillside rock outcropping below)
Keywords: landscape
Collection: B2014.023
B1995.014.50.10
Army fishing, food for dogs [soldier loading fish into wooden box from canoe, box part of slime line set up, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.008.1191
[commercial portrait of horse saddled for riding, wooden step for mounting set nearby, Transcaspian Oblast. With Russian caption]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2015
(City Hall Anchorage 1955)(8x10 print 3)
Keywords: building exterior
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1962.001A.238
[Lowe River]
Keywords: Lowe River, Rivers, Scenics, Landscapes
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.416.8
19. Rendezvous Queen Mary Margaret Abercrombie, 1939 [court on stage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1982.188.025
Agriculture - Alaska; Sheep - Afognak? [sheep stand in pasture wearing jackets after being sheared; structures in distance]
Collection: B1982.188 U_S_ Department of the Interior Photograph Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.lakeotis7507656
Lake Otis school, July 25, 1956. Photographer's number 7 5076 56
Keywords: school, education, anchorage
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
B2000.003.Sperstad.3
The homestead cabin south of International Airport Road 1928
Collection: B2000.003
B1989.016.2296.3
(Gold dredge, Ester Creek near Fairbanks, July 1945)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.031
Muir Glacier, Alaska, copyrighted 1905 by Winter & Pond Co. 115 [colored postcard "from Ruth Miller" written on front; from verso: "45 miles from Juneau" and "March 1973 from Mrs Ruth Miller" 132 High Street; Mount Clemens, Mich 48043"
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.5.20
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2016.005.022
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B2024.001.383
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). One indigenous individual wearing leather regalia and a feathered headdress rides and brown and white pinto horse. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Rider, Horse, Regalia, Spectators, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2019.019.IB9-12
Mt. McKinley [Denali] / Reflection Pool, 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Denali, Mountains, Reflection Pool, Water
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides