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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.AKNative.44.183
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2016.019.1.05f.08520.11
Sea lions on rocks, The Needle, Prince William Sound, AK [Animals - Marine Life - Sea Lions], 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Animals, Marine Life, Sea Lions
Collection: B2016.019
B1989.016.555.4
A-30. The McKinley Park Route. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska. [view from Alaska Railroad]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.10.004
3-2 Brad Hall at work [man sitting on stool working at desk, possibly a drafing table; lamp; telephone; typewriter on desk at right; pencil sharpener at right; Seattle Glove Co. calendar on wall at left; windows; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.2590
Fairbanks High School basketball team - 1937.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1998.014.1.144
A56 Ft. Richardson Duck Hunters Elmendorf duck hunters +Bill Oakley in center, Sep 1, 1944
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2312.5
(Alaskan Merchandisers, exterior of office, May 9, 1951) [business with loading dock area, truck parked in bay]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1006
(L140 Seward Highway) [neg removed due to deterioration - channeling and bubbling; scenic view of paved roadway, trees, water, mountains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.960
[map of Columbia Glacier, Prince William Sound, Alaska (1910)]
Keywords: map
Collection: B2015.008
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.3.43
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.18.19
(timber)(July 1966)(KP. Co. Thorne Bay. Portable Steel SPAR)(N.P.)(very good)
Keywords: forestry, logging, lumber
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B2009.017.1988.06.11
“An elephant’s memory is nothing compared to its imagination” ©1988 Sat. June 11, 1988 [John Wood saying ‘The recall is a Faiks, Halford, and ARCO scheme to keep me out of Juneau!’, Jan Faiks and Rick Halford countering ‘he’s just a part of the nkworth plot to steal the Senate from us’. Print]
Collection: B2009.017
B2014.002.736
[Tlingit dancers, singer, and drummer, Romig Junior High gymnasium; print date Nov 70]
Collection: B2014.002
B1990.014.5.EQ.7.3.1
Earthquake follow up. men work Cordova repair of ruptured beam. Mac at Campbell Lake after dam broke. Edited May 20, 1975
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_7
B1989.016.2259.3
(Lions Club members with brooms, April 28, 1953) [group portrait of men standing in street next to street sweeper, one man handing another a dollar bill, Anchorage]
Keywords: maintenance, Municipality, roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.125
A50 Reindeer, 1946 "Alaskan reindeer photo by E. Tetinek"
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.6426.jpg
Iditarod Race checker, Art Mortvedt, in Rohn.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1990.014.5.P.2.22.27
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1995.010.5841
[distant view of wooden trestle bridge over small creek in winter. No print. Cf. .5757]
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.2018.1.25.001
9-1; May 1939; Plus X 64-40 Dev in DK 20-20 min c 70 Far; Dad [man reading Life Magazine; lamp; curtains; framed photograph on windowsill at left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.161.009
52-4 Mrs. Ohasi [sic: Ohashi] & Hope in native dress [Homatsu Ohashi poses in profile wearing kimono; Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.268.032
83; Sept. 4, 1942 Aerial views of HIdden Inlet fire [viewfrom off shore of structures, one on fire; possibly HIdden Inlet, or Stewart, BC, or Hyder]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.10.20
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 10
B1998.014.1.1064
(M12 dragline PC; placer mining for gold in Alaska) [similar to .1063]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley