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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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B1989.016.2079.27
[aerial of oil tanks at storage facility]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.200
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1991.011.1207
Point Hope, 1946 [woman and girl sit on driftwood log]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.83.001
30-1, Sept. Pan X; Dev in DK 20-30 min @ 65°F; repacking scenes; intensified [two men handling fish filets in warehouse; likely 1939; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.People.14.221.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.2018.1.91.002
34-1; Dec. 1939; Plus X - 40-24; Dev in DK 20-14 min @ 70°F; Trees & clouds [rooftop and chimney at center bottom; likely near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
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
B2006.023.8168
[Building with signs: Iditarod Joe's camp and The City of Unalakleet, Alaska, salutes the Iditarod Trail Race]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1998.014.1.1486
S56 Army Scouts in the Alaska Range [service men, backpacks, winter gear, ropes, backpacks, pickaxe mountains; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.124.3
Willow Creek, 1946 [close-up of dredge at mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.ColwellMrs.1
[Colwell,Mrs Passport Photos,1942]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.70.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.39.5.46B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.104
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.616
Sunset on Mt. McKinley. #11, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.18.002
5-2; Totem [pointing figure totem inside wood structure; 1939? likely Ketchikan area]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1027.3
G-Z 243 (Scenes in Golden Zone) [Golden Zone main camp looking west across Bryn Mawr Creek; large bunkhouse buildings in foreground; next left building without windows is water storage; far left is assay building]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.029.1840
[three children, one holding toy badge, one holding money; print date Mar 79]
Collection: B2017.029
B1989.016.1161.2
P-344B. 8/7/36. Hewitt's (Farms and Gardens, Palmer) [Matanuska Colony homestead with barn, silo, houses, Pioneer Peak in background, fields in foreground]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.089.120.3.1A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1965.004.37
Anchorage 1919 Float in Anchorage Labor Day parade Lathrop Building
Collection: B1965.004 Whittington
B1989.016.443.7
7. Remorse. Glass and Hewitt. [moose fight. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection