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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.
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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1997.003.255
[five Native children standing outside wooden building; more structures in distance]
Collection: B1997.003
B1989.016.1968.4
(Christmas Cards, Greetings from Alaska (mountain and trees) (copy)[Christmas card with winter scene of mountains and trees]
Keywords: winter, mountains, trees
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1984.077.10.009
[Bear on chain, walking, debris in midground, utility pole on horizon]
Collection: B1984.077
B2001.036.778
Kipnuk, AK, 11-82 [field with barrels, fish drying rack, and town in the distance]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B1989.016.1270
Post Office, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's 127 (Jan. 14, 1942) [interior]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.5.46
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2009.017.1989.07.019
Ancient Myth Modern Myth
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, cartoons, comics, political, exxon valdez, evos
Collection: B2009.017
B2015.025.810
[stacks of pipe (metal, concrete, and plastic), crane in background right, Port of Anchorage?]
Collection: B2015.025
B1990.014.2018.1.198.002
64-2 Seagulls on trip south [birds in flight; structure at right; March 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2024.001.322
“Eklutna Bridge Jan 71” [Idluytnu (Eklutna River) bridge in the fall, one youth jumps on rocks in the river. Dena’ina territory, January 1971]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Idluytnu, Eklutna River, Brdige, Fall, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2015.008.126
2468(92514)(noon)(Cascade and Barry Glaciers from Near Point)
Keywords: Glaciers, Tide water glacier, College Fiord, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2015.008
B2019.019.IB7-22
Mt. Alyeska Area, 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Alyeska, Mountains
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B2016.004.14.25
Barrow, 89884, May 1980 [caribou leg furs on drying rack]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B2016.004
B1995.014.4.3
Mike Kleeskock [Alaska Native man wearing Red Ball denim bib overalls and driving cap]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1984.077.8.025
[Bear at trash barrel, stove, trash on ground. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2017.029.2986
[Alaska Native women wearing atigluks, mittens, and mukluks dancing at Anchorage Museum; print date Feb 81]
Collection: B2017.029
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.2.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.127
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.30.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1990.014.2018.1.109.002
40-4 Mr & Mrs H.H. Bacon [Feb 21-March 1, 1940; likely Seattle, Washington; couple posing]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.90.004
33-1 Dec. 1939 Agfa Superpan Supreme - 50-32; Dev in DK20-15 min @ 69°; Portrait of Dorothy Strong [woman wearing sweater with buttons at shoulder; light switches at upper left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.989
M-32. A Matanuska Valley colonists home. Hewitt's Photo Shop [home and barn with mountains in background, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
