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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.ConConv.16.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1990.014.5.AKNative.21.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2021.008.72
We’ll watch baby [Two dogs and one child on a beach with water in the background]
Keywords: Child, Dog, Beach
Collection: B2021.008 Myrtle Everett Bragaw
B1990.014.5.P.2.25D.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B90.14.5.ANC.5.109
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B1990.014.5.AKNative.39.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2015.008.314
Sheep in barnyard with feed racks [sheep in snowy yard in front of Beulah Farm barn]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.026.336
[unidentified woman throwing floral wreath into water from Solitude, memorial service? no date]
Collection: B2015.026
B1990.014.004.03325
A poke is an inflated seal skin used to float whales. Point Hope. Photographer's number: 03325. Stamp: 06 20 1968. Alaska Pro Pix
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1998.014.1.1807
(T113 Sitka, totem poles) Frank Morgan photo [copy neg; Lakich'inei pole in foreground, possibly Yaadaas Crest pole and Mosquito Legend pole in background; spruce trees, pathway]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1653.2
30. Healey River Coal Veins. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [man standing on coal veins at Healy River. Photo credit, probably Johnson & Tyler, scratched off negative]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1924.1
(Alaska Railroad Moose Gooser, Fur Rondy, 1952) [two men dressed as Keystone Kops, one man dressed as robber, and train engineer acting out scene next to the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, locomotive 1050, with onlookers, during Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage. Cf. 1881.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.265.003
82-4; [man reclining against driftwood logs on beach; August 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.32
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1982.052.024
Canneries. Petersburg cannery and village. Oct. '06 at entrance of Wrangell Narrows. 1906.
Collection: B1982.052 Robert Wheatley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.190
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1101.3
P-129. Hewitt's (Dormitory interior) [seating area with couches and armchairs in dormitory at Palmer School. 1936?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.019.45.58.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.35
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1990.014.5.Anc.18.56
11-14-70; Anchorage 50th anniversary; telephone display" [historic telephones displayed on mantle inside log structure]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.30.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1990.014.5.AKNative.21.6.34B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.Kjosen.1
(Kjosen Passport Photos 1934-35)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1989.016.GreenRC.1
[Green RC Passport Photos 1942]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2006.023.6152.jpg
[Chilkoot Trail]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2016.024.030
Totems, Ap. ’53 [Pointing Figure, Saxman Totem Park]
Keywords: Totems
Collection: B2016.024
B1998.014.1.1186
O42 Native graves, Nulato, Alaska; photo by E. Tetinek (1946 postcard) [copy neg, crosses, spirit houses, American flag]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.39.37
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative