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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1989.016.2055.42
42 (July 4, 1938, parade) [automobile with sign "Fun Fellowship & Service" on roof and wings with "8/40" on front hood, American flags and streamers]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.26.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.19.1
(timber)(July 1966)(KP. Co. Thorne Bay Yarder's Log Spar)(good)(np)
Keywords: forestry, lumber, logging
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1962.001.2774
Valdez Bay-Cliff Mine Home of Ray Millard. Left-Louise Millard; 2. ?; 3. Nan Crary [Crary-Henderson, Nan]
Keywords: Valdez Bay, Cliff Mine, Mines and mining, Homes, Houses, Buildings, Ray Millard, Louise Millard, Nan Crary, Nan Crary-Henderson, Children
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.30.3A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B90.14.5.ARR.1.216
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1990.014.2018.1.98.005
37-1 Jan. 1940; Plus X 40-24; Dev 15 mins in DK 20 @65°; interiors at 1055 Stedman St. [living room furnished with chair; magazine rack table; drapes; tea kettle; possibly electric space heater; view into kitche with cabinets; sink; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.TorkelsonOsmund.1
(Tokelson Osmund Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1989.016.158
Eustace Ziegler painting. Horse in stream. Z-44.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.14
Mrs. K. F. Waldhelm. Nome, Alaska. [Young Indigenous boy outdoors in fur parka holding dead bird at side, midwinter. Inupiaq Territory, Sitŋasuaq (Nome). Image signed by Kathinka Waldhelm, wife of George Waldhelm, miner and proprietor of George's Gold Nugget Shoppe.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Boy, Child, Fur, Parka, Reindeer, Hide, Skin, Clothing, Outerwear, Mukluks, Footwear, Bird, Dead bird, Harvest, Subsistence, Winter, Snow, Mrs. K. F. Waldhelm, Mrs. Waldhelm, Kathinka Waldhelm, Sitŋasuaq, Sitnasuaq, Nome, Inupiaq Territory, Inupiat
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.65
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B2017.011.192
Alaska ’48 – Kodiak, Shillikof Strait’s rare beauty [scenic of Shelikof Strait. Removed from broken mount]
Collection: B2017.011
B2015.008.958
[map of upper Gulf of Alaska region from Latouche and Columbia Glacier on west to
Yakutat and Kluane Lake on east]
Keywords: map
Collection: B2015.008
B2006.023.4795.jpg
[Wedding of Joe Jr. and Thela Redington?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1990.014.5.EQ.20.100
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_20
B2015.008.292
Original part at left [side view of brick house showing wood-sided addition]
Collection: B2015.008
B2022.005.102
[Group of Indigenous Alaskans in skin boat; seal float at right near aft]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, People, Boat, Skin boat, Watercraft, Transportation, Parka, Clothing, Outerwear, Water, Travel, Seal, Seal float, Float, Group
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2024.001.395
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). An elderly Indigenous individual in a fur parka sits on a wheeled dog sled and waves to the crowds. The sled appears to be pulled by something off camera. Another individual stands behind the sled wearing a cap and winter coat. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B1990.014.5.ConConv.28.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1989.016.1543
[street scene of Fourth Avenue and F Street in Anchorage, with automobiles parked outside Fire Station, with businesses including Hewitt's Drug Store, Rexall Drugs, J. Vic Brown, and Baldwin Grocery visible]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2077.10
43 (Fur Rendezvous, Last Day of Big Races, 1954) [young boy driving three-dog team down Fourth Avenue past spectators in front of City Hall]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1560.1
Wiley Post and Will Rogers plane at Fairbanks, Alaska [float plane docked on Chena Slough at Fairbanks, August 1935. Airplane is Lockheed Orion/Explorer on J5300 EDO floats, tail number NR12283]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection