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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B90.14.5.AncAir.21.125.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.68B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.967
(L115 Alaska Highway; Teslin Lake, mi 804, Yukon Territory & Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission church) [structures, church, ladder, tall grass in foreground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1918.7
From Anchorage, Alaska, comes a hearty Merry Christmas [Christmas card mat with sketch of Cook Inlet and photograph of Fourth Avenue looking east, with 4th Avenue Theater]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1984.077.7.025
[Log structure, partially built, canvas, trees in background.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2006.023.1772.jpg
Start Iditarod 1975 Anchorage to Nome Atlantic Richfield Company.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 1001-2000
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.87.46
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.685.2
Native woman working with furs [student at Eklutna Vocational School]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.28.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.Pol.12.85.6B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Pol
B2016.004.38.30
International Women's Year, 1977. At Camp Myer, Wasilla, #1 9-24-77 [group portrait]
Collection: B2016.004
B1990.014.2018.1.225.002
70-3 Main St of Sitka [Street scene including signs for Rainier Beer, Dentist, Montgomery Ward Order Office, Sitka Inn boarding house, Tilson Liquor Store front view of St. Michael Cathedral, Russian Orthodox church; people on sidewalks; boy with bicycle at left; automobiles; August 1941; Sitka]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.63
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2018.023.015a
[scenic view of Eldred Rock Lighthouse; structures; Lynn Canal; reflection; mountains; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.2554.1
[Off to the potlatch, by Sydney Laurence]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1995.014.37.13
[scenic of creek through grasses and pine trees in mountainous area]
Collection: B1995.014
B2005.013.137
Joe & Margaret, King Cove, May ’52 [man and woman standing on boardwalk along waterfront, other men seated at left, buildings in background]
Collection: B2005.013
B2006.023.4007
Ice and gravel on the south fork of the Kuskokwim. Same as #3908
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1998.014.1.459
D2 Siberian sled dog [positive image, writing is in reverse, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.P.2.15.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1990.014.5.AKNative.4.102
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.930
P-543. Children's races, Palmer Day, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [children in yard, next to school building? 1937]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection