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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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B1998.014.1.2308
"Caribou hunt" [winter scene with caribou, hides, antlers on snow, two hunters: one skinning caribou]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.5674
View of Approach-driveway to OceanDock Anchorage_p141{people and and early automobiles moving along the dock}
Keywords: railroad, vintage automobile, anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.2018.1.80.005
29-4; Ketchikan [bird's eye view overlooking Ketchikan, Tongass Narrows, Gravina Island; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.1071
#205. Palmer. Hewitt's Photo Shop [street scene with railroad tracks in foreground, parked automobiles and pedestrians, businesses including Bert's, Koslosky's, Sally's Cafe, Valley City Cafe]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.51
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1989.016.1847.2
(Husky pup given away to newsboy) [studio portrait of dog]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.1207
Point Hope, 1946 [woman and girl sit on driftwood log]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1989.016.760
Holy Cross, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [bird's eye view of village]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.ConConv.09.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.ConConv.02.28
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
b2012.006.427
[view along shoreline, boat in foreground, church in distance; print date Sep 58]
Collection: B2012.006
B1989.016.2297.1
(Harry and cabbage) [man in cultivated field looking at large cabbage, Matanuska Valley?]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.SchackleC.1
(Schackle C Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1995.014.49.16
[bird's eye view of military installation with Quonset huts and other buildings in winter, men gathered in yard at right, mountains in distance, Adak]
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.2092
W6 Alaskan winter sport "1946 postcard (skiing & ski jump)" [people with skis gathered near ski jump as one person begins sking the run; wooden structures for ski jumping]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.8980.jpg
Iditarod vet check, 1976
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B2015.008.1183
St. Petersburg, The Islands = Kammenoi Ostrov. D.K. Aug. ’99 [Kamenny Ostrov and other islands as seen from water]
Collection: B2015.008
B1997.019.20full
The captain puts on his pendant made of pieces of whale meat sewed in pieces of seal skin, the whole village hurries to the
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.75
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B90.14.5.EQ.6.2
Earthquake-Anchorage Sand and Gravel September 10, 1964 Anchorage Sand and Gravel
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_6
B1990.014.5.EQ.14.24
Phyllis at home using auxilary power. Campbell Lake 3363 Lake side Dr. Utilities knocked out by quake of 27 March 1964. Phylllis McCutcheon.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_14
B1990.014.5.P.2.21.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2