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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1989.016.477.10
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.516
Juneau, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. 56
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.48
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.67.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2018.023.146b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: woman and man wearing buckskin clothing, headdresses of beads and feathers, necklaces, belts pose for portrait; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B90.14.5.ANC.4.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_40_5_ANC_4
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.1.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 1
B1990.014.3.734
North of 5 mile camp August 10, 1975 11978
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.3
B1990.014.5.P.2.15.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B2008.029.10
[loading automobile onto Alaska Steamship Co. ship at dock]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2008.029
B1998.014.1.2559
"Kenai Highway; Mi 29, Sep 1942" [scenic view of Kenai Lake, mountains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1962.001.1970
Chisna River [Chisana River] [Scenic landscape. Possibly Ahtna or Tanana Territory]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Ahtna, Territory, Tanana, Chisna River, Chisana River, River, Scenic, Landscape, Mountain, Range, Snowy, Peaks
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B2024.001.407
“Reindeer on 4th Ave. closeup 1965” [Reindeer with a red harness. Similar to .406. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, 1965]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Downtown, 4th Avenue, Reindeer, Harness, Halter, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2012.23.02
Tintype portrait of a woman. circa 1870-1890. 1 of two tintype portraits in the collection
Keywords: Tintype; portrait
Collection: B2012.023
B1990.014.5.AKNative.16.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2187.5
Copyright 1903. Lomen Bros. Nome #20 [studio portrait of Native man in fur parka, identified in other sources as being resident of Kotzebue. copy neg]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.S4501.274
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 4/67 [lunch on the trail]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1986.096.50thanniv01
Anchorage 50th anniversary, 1970. Photographer's number 17448
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B2014.009.1
Kotzebue 1957 [woman sitting outside walled tent, two young girls standing near]
Keywords: clothing, houses, residences
Collection: B2014.009
B1989.016.678
82. Alaska Winter Blossoms. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [hoar frost on trees]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1978.075.03
(Anchorage 1910 1919)(Moving the tent store The George Carrol building was ready and I believe this put in the back as a warehouse)( the original was a post card)
Keywords: horses, Anchorage
Collection: B1978.075 Carroll Collection
B1962.001.2959
Slate Creek Chistuchina flats [Chistochina River] [Ahtna Territory, Tsiis Tl'edze' Caegge (Chistochina)]
Keywords: Tsiis Tl'edze' Caegge, Chistochina, Flats, Slate Creek, Creek, River, Valley, Mountain, Range
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.535.5
#72. Hewitt's Photo. City Building, interior [Anchorage City Hall]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1081
M18 Dredging for Alaskan gold [water, mining, tailings]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.28.006
11-1; May 1939; Plus x 64-40 Dev in DK 20-26 min c 65 degree FAR; show [scene from movie depicting two men sitting drinking]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.39
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative