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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.004.38006
A small creek struggles to break the bonds of winter. Photographer's number: 38006 [print date Mar 92]
Keywords: ice, snow, rivers
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2006.003.41
E.A. Hegg [Native men in kayaks or umiaks pulled up alongside large ship]
Keywords: boats
Collection: B2006.003
B1995.010.4966
[woman sitting on bucket, ice fishing, tom cod on ice, two people standing at right; print date Sep 71]
Collection: B1995.010
B2022.001.145
Letter and enclosure to E&S Diversified Services from State of Alaska Department of Labor, Administrative Services Division, signed by Holly Stinson, Labor Economist, April 21, 1993
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Letter, Enclosure, E&S Diversified Services, State of Alaska, SOA< Department of Labor, DOL, Administrative Services Division, Holly Stinson
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2019.003.070
Loaded down with frost [scenic of hoarfrost on trees in winter]
Keywords: Winter, Frost, Frosty, Frosted, Hoarfrost, Tree, Trees, Scene, Scenic
Collection: B2019.003
B2009.009.674
Alaska black bear cub. Logemann Photo [bear on chain being fed out of can]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B2009.009
B1990.014.5.AKNative.45.45.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.014.11.14
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [men setting up traps on ice, man in foreground holding scoop, hills in background]
Keywords: ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.EQ.15.6
Last Denali Theater after 3/27/64 earthquake
Keywords: earthquake; cranes
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_15
B2016.005.021
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B1989.016.2148.10
#10B (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [bird's eye view, looking west, of floats and marchers on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, passing businesses including 1st National Bank, Bert's Drugs, Northern Commercial Co., U.G. Crocker Economical Shopping Center, Alaska Transfer Co., Richmond's Restaurant, Merchants Cafe, and The Club. Floats include Hoyt Motor Co.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.4929
"8/8/1919 F. Issacson; Gen view at head Issabelle Cr. [most likely Isabella Cr]" [man stanind in field, fence rail, garden in background, Fairbanks vicinity, agriculture"
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.1920
T168 Alaska's most important and longest street - famous 4th Ave at Anchorage. [winter street scene looking east on 4th Avenue near H Street; snow; automobiles, people walking on sidewalks; B&B Liquor Store; Anchorage Times; Paddock Furniture; Theatre; Alaskan Printing; The Rose Shop; Liquor; Sewing Machines; Piggly Wiggly Grocery; The Pioneer Club; palm tree (likely with neon lights on rooftop); McKinley Building in distance; Chugach Mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2000.014.858
(858)(Kehoe farm John Kehoe Ed John Reilly Tanana Sep 6 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1998.014.1.1005
L140 Seward - Anchorage Hiway (highway) [paved roadway with center striping, automobiles, elevated roadbed, wetland, bog or creek, trees]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.682.2
66. Platinum, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop [post office]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2294.5
(Elks' Lodge, Anchorage, interior of main hall, August 1950) [vignette]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.1.56
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 1
B2022.005.134
[Silhouette of woman near window]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Window, Silhouette
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.84.003
30-2; Repacking scene [stack of salmon filets]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.People.12.15
"4th of July 1947" [parade, float, spectators, Rutherford's Mens wear, boy on bicycle, boy pulled in wagon "Over the Alcan or bust!"]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People
B1998.014.1.2127
"Q22 Favorite winter sport, Anchorage" [copy neg; view of skiers on montain with skis and poles standing in snow in foreground; similar to .2125]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.EQ.3.1.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 3
B1989.016.1568.2
(Valley Crop - Tomatoes)
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.066.2
Matanuska Farm (winter). Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.033a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [Four girls with braided hair wearing pants made of hide; mukluks; parkas; bags hung around the neck and over the chest may be for gathering roots or tubers; tundra; hill in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023