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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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B1985.027.1870
Originally in B6 F136. Wien Historic. Noel Wien [copy neg - poor quality- no reproductions].
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1962.001A.138
Copper River [Indigenous people], Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E283 [verso:] Horse Creek Mary (father was Russian) [studio portrait of two Ahtna men and one woman.] [Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Ahtena, Indigenous, Man, Woman, Portrait, Studio, Copper River, Atna, BIPOC, Russian, Horse Creek Mary, P.S. Hunt
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.136
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2035.10
(Monument, Anchorage-Palmer Highway) [five women standing next to stone marker, with American flag, Alaska flag, and Daughters of the American Revolution flag. Women identified on envelope as Mrs. Edmonds, Mrs. Romig, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. McCrosky, Mrs. Olson]
Keywords: roads, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.111
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2009.017.1985.07.21
“Campbell Creek Classic. New Formula” ©1985 Sunday July 21, 1985 [man holding soda can, ‘Now With Coliform’]
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.18.2
Aerial view of 4th Ave Earthquake damage showing the C St slump
Keywords: aerial, anchorage, buildings, cars, destruction
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B2016.004.82.18
Whitney-Fidalgo Cannery, Ship Creek, Anchorage, 1974 [workers inside cannery]
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.247.10B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.8258
[Fishing boats Glacier Bear, Arctic Wolf, Miss Unalakleet, Big Kyak]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2021.002.033
Right to left, Larry, Greg Fleming, Larry's son, Larry's wife, Fairbanks, 1957 [cooking some hot dogs on an open fire.]
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, Gregory Fleming, Fairbanks, African American Families, African Americans 1950-1990
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2015.008.1073
709. Near Esmerelda Inn, North Carolina. D.K., 2 Sept. ’98 [view down dirt road,
wooden fence and building at left]
Keywords: Esmerlda Inn, North Carolina
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2370
[Aviation, Pacific Alaska Airways]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1983.091.C10172.42
(Oct 10 / 10 /1979)(Stack Steel Poly Creek)(conservator #077_15_06_00)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1990.014.5.P.25.138c
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P25
B1995.014.50.16
[two men camping, with large tent and hunting blind, Willow area?]
Collection: B1995.014