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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B2016.019.6.29.02541.09
Matanuska Valley, taken September 1981, [Matanuska Glacier], 1981
Keywords: matanuska valley, matanuska, fall, autumn, southcentral, alaska, Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Matanuska Glacier
Collection: B2016.019
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.13.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B1990.014.5.AKNative.32.40
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2141.43
D-58 [portrait of woman in fur parka, same woman as .2141.42]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5772
[winter view from platform of rotary snowplow and other equipment at Tunnel. Has neg dated 5/27/46]
Collection: B1995.010
b2009.057.01
Government Dock, Anchorage Alaska. Pyatt. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative.
Collection: B2009.057 Pyatt
B1998.014.1.1546
S63 Snow removal on Alaskan air port (S99 Clearing Alaskan highways and air fields) [same as .1545, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.011.67
Alaska ’48 – Kulik, Tikchik, Jerry & Shorty at work [two men angling in lake, mountain in background]
Collection: B2017.011
B2017.024.1986.tagging02
Polar bear survey -- tagging team works on drugged bears - Chukchi.
Collection: B2017.024
B2015.026.735
6-5. Arctic Eskimo couple and trained deer. Native Alaska Set No. 6. Arctic Circle Enterprises, Anchorage [man and woman wearing fur parkas, man holding reindeer by reins]
Collection: B2015.026
B1989.016.2053.32
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [parade on Fourth Avenue, passing signs for businesses including The Gitchell, Seidenverg's, U. G. Crocker, Tent Factory, and Gordon's Cantilever Shoes]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1994.009.1409
A Western Electric photo. Photographed by A.T. Rife. AGEX, 6-27-57. 4 x 5 negative
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B1989.016.786.2
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [home, Anchorage, with winter hoar frost]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.91.13B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1973.079.127
[Lady with baby stroller on boardwalk at Ft. St. Michael with large snow berms on each side] [negative is in poor condition]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1989.016.746.2
Bridge [road bridge over river, with log construction on either end, dog standing on riverbank]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.54.006
22-1 Aug. 1939; Super x - 32-20; Dev in DK 20-28 min @ 65 degrees; Pat Thomas [woman standing on roadway wearing trousers, jacket, headscarf; low wall and trees in background; likely near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2012.006.630
[man in military uniform inside electrical room at radar site, identified in 2014 as Unalakleet Air Force Station personnel with equipment in the background; no date]
Collection: B2012.006
B2018.025.009
[Sydney Laurence painting of cache and figure at camp fire, name “Cameron” added to negative
Collection: B2018.025