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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1989.016.1553.8
(Early Alaska Airplane Scenes) [Star Air Service pilot]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.13.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2006.023.8948.jpg
Bernie Turner. Slide printed April 1975.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B1989.016.2055.15
15 (July 4, 1938, parade) [flat bed truck festooned with crepe and flag, men at back arranging pine trees and foliage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.6915.jpg
Pana-Vue JH113G1. Eskimos of Alaska. Blanket toss.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1989.016.VarraGeorge.1
Varra, George Passport Photos, 1942
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.141
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd. This image is of the First Federal Savings and Loan Spenard Branch.
Keywords: building exterior, power lines
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.Anc.6.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC.6
B2014.023.025
(Nymph Nellie and the gang)[six people dressed in costume posed on a garden/ lawn]
Collection: B2014.023
B1990.014.004.animals.24.Jun91.026b
Reindeer calf negotiates the stream alone.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B1989.016.1593.2
Cook's Inlet [bird's eye view of residential area in northwest Anchorage with Ship Creek, Anchorage docks, ship in Cook Inlet in distance; Sackett's Harbor at dock?]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.003.bittner.4
Catherine, Harry, and Bill Bittner, Lake Spenard, 1919 [from Legends & Legacies by Bagoy]
Keywords: Anchorage, recreation
Collection: B2000.003
B1989.016.2148.20
#20B (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [bird's eye view of military color guard marching on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage passing businesses including The Gitchell, Sunfreeze Ice Cream Shop, Alaska Jewelry Co., H. Seidenverg Clothier, Ship Creek Meat Co.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.019.346
[Winter scene with dogsled team stopped on a trail; sled and musher in distance; approximately 1925]
Collection: B1995.019 John D_ (Jack) Urban Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.49
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1062.1
P-292. Hewitt's (Picking Berries, early Palmer) [boy with bucket picking berries in Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.017.035
[structure made of whalebones and driftwood, snowmachine and sled on tundra in background, people and structures in distance, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2008.013.20
The Sydney Laurence Co. [on verso:] Allan Horning (about 11-12), Jean Horning (about 4-5), photo taken about 1917-18 [studio portrait; Al Horning later became a bush pilot. Photographic postcard]
Collection: B2008.013
B1990.014.5.TV.094.331.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.694
B-54. Along the Inside Passage. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [village seen through trees]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.341
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative