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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1990.014.004.09872
Schools in Alaska are for all races, colors or creed and always have been. Sep 71P2 09872
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.5.ConConv.03.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B2017.002.08
Pumping water at Point Barrow, summer time [two men standing on trailer with water tank, one man kneeling next to river with hose]
Collection: B2017.002
B2022.005.219
[Multigenerational Indigenous Alaskan group gathered outside building on steps; midwinter]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Multigenerational, Group, Elder, Elders, Men, Women, Parents, Mother, Father, Child, Children, Grandparent, Grandparents, Family, Community, Relationships, Community, Building, Steps, Winter, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B90.14.5.ARR.2.191
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1989.016.793
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [home, Anchorage, log cabin in winter with hoar frost on trees]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.212.4
Fairbanks ice carnival (Carnival series) [scenery]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1531.4
(Lucky Shot Mine, Hatcher Pass)
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2053.37
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [parade on Fourth Avenue, passing signs for businesses including The Gitchell, Seidenverg's, U. G. Crocker, Tent Factory, Gordon's Cantilever Shoes, and Alaska Game Commission [window at left]]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.5.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.1.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1989.016.2210.5
E-25 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [man and women in Eklutna exhibit booth with displays of Native arts and crafts including ivory carvings, mukluks, dolls, and clothing, sign for Flying Needles Club; Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1988.003.219
Canneries. Geo T. Myers & Co. Cannery. Sitkoh Bay, Alaska.
Collection: B1988.003 Ingalls Collection
B1995.014.52.11
[man snowshoeing in wooded area in winter]
Keywords: transportation, footwear
Collection: B1995.014
B2016.019.1.01f.10618.22
New Alaska Commercial store in Dutch Harbor, Alaska [Alaska Cities - Unalaska], 1994
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Cities, Unalaska, Dutch Harbor
Collection: B2016.019