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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.People.14.308
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1994.022.393Z.2
(Airplanes)[airplane on tundra preparing to take off]
Keywords: airplane
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B2000.014.524
(524)(Mrs Cristo and her two boys Mitchell and Michael, Ruby August 16, 1915)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1989.016.LeafGeorge.1
(Leaf George Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1962.001A.60
P.S. Hunt, K118 [identified as Wheat baby, per B1962.001.766; People; Valdez]
Keywords: Studio portraits, Wheat, Wheat baby, Babies, Infants, Children, People, Valdez
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1990.14.5.Animals.19.014
"Animals: Bears AIR, 2 Polar Bear, not very sharp, 9013, May 24, 1969 5"
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Animals
B1994.022.553
(Road Construction-Richardson Highway)
Keywords: winter
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.235.002
72-4 [Sitka, August 1941; boy sitting on bottom step of wood stairs; structures]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1979.002.Album1.160
R18-12. F. Mears, Mike Sullivan, Portage Glacier [Lt. Frederick Mears and Mike Sullivan walking across glacier, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.057
(91814)(Noon)(Pushing through iceberg jam)
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, Glaciers, icebergs
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.2018.1.239.003
73-3 [Sitka September 1941; view of laundry hanging on clothesline above pier; boat in foreground; wood structures, boats in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.21.6.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.ConConv.04.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.TV.083.73.12.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1989.016.1599.2
P-317. Hewitt's (Gill netters) [two fishermen pulling net into boat]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.8.1.ANC.8.14a
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC.8
B2016.024.113
Juneau airport, Dec. ’52 [Pan American Airways airplane in front of terminal building]
Keywords: Juneau, Juneau International Airport, airplanes
Collection: B2016.024
B1990.014.5.AKNative.17.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.42.26
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.108.001
40-2 Suspension bridge [Tacoma, Washington; Feb. 21 - March 1, 1940; view of underside of bridge under construction, possibly the Tacoma Narrows bridge; people standing near base of support]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.812
L42 Mt. McKinley, highest mountain in the world - from its base (1946 postcard) [Denali, mountains, possibly road in lower right of image, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2022.001.111
Contractor Performance Evaluation, MacDill Air Force Base, signed by Darnell E. Folks, July 31, 2003
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, E&S Diversified Services, Business, Company, Contractor, Contract, Performance Evaluation, Performance, Evaluation, MacDill Air Force Base, MacDill, Air Force, USAF, Air Force Base, AFB, Excellent, Excellence, Darnell E. Folks, Darnell Folks
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1983.091.S3017.002
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [butchering walrus; Four people, including at one child, snow, parka, mukluks, two seals visible in boat, rope]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.PowellGeorge.1
(Powell George Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2017.024.2089
King Island, copyright 1986 [wooden umiaks loaded with walrus; tusks; hunters; women, children, supplies; sea ice, open water]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.1411.2
Anchorage winter vista. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [view over Cook Inlet with snowy trees in foreground, ice on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.P.23.76.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P23
B2006.023.6152.jpg
[Chilkoot Trail]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999