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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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B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.98.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1989.016.207.2
Fairbanks, Alaska. Hewitt's 11. [Carnival series]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.1.97
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1998.014.1.1062
(M12 dragline PC; placer mining for gold in Alaska) [mining scene; Bacyrus-Monighan dragline, bucket]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B90.14.5.ANC.Air.27.32
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / B90.14.5.ANC.Air.27
B2015.007.158
[close-up of child sucking thumb or pacifier. Original image blurry and dark. Same as .3]
Collection: B2015.007
B1995.014.87.16
[tractor with tracks and skis hauling load near river in winter, mountain in background]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.017.120
[woman from .115 and young woman operating print or copy machine, Nondalton]
Collection: B2017.017
B2013.063.2.8
Dinah Marie, Nenana [Dinah's confirmation, dogs are Tex and Sparky]
Collection: B2013.063
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.1.91
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1989.016.2055.5
5 (July 4, 1938, parade) [baby in carriage decorated with foliage and banner reading Mistress Mary, clown on bicycle near wooden stands filled with spectators]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.60.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.Logging.2.6
(Ketchikan Pulp Company Thorne Bay)(4882)(July 1966)(men wait to go to work Thorne Bay KPCo)
Keywords: forestry, logging, lumber, timber
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 2
B1990.014.2018.1.12.002
3-4 Brad & Nancy [interior scene with man and child; overexposed; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.TV.095.126.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1998.014.1.1059
(M12 Dragline, PC; placer mining for gold in Alaska) [Bucyrus Monighan drgline]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1560.10
(The Salvage of the Winnie Mae) [men posed on nose of wrecked airplane]
Keywords: aviation, aircraft accidents
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.7640
Historical (Misc.) Lawn Party at Fairbanks 1913
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1962.x.015.017
U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska Corps of Engineers Late in September, 1942, this truck was driven up the Alcan from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse--the first truck to make the entire trip. [1942-1943]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1989.016.1603.2
104. Building material at Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [lumber in piles along Alaska Railroad tracks, with dirt road and walled tents at left, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2007.005.6.A7
[unknown native woman standing outside infront of entrance to an underground house ]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.1.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1998.014.1.1205
O50 an Alaskan totem; photo by Frank Morgan (1948 postcard) [copy neg; same as .1203]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley