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The Anchorage Museum archives include historic photographs and print materials covering a broad range of topics related to Alaska and the Circumpolar North. Some materials are available online, while others are available for detailed research on site at the Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center.
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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.40.70.43A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2016.024.013
CG living area, Annette, Apr. ’53 [on print:] Note oil barrels: our source of fuel [bird’s eye view of housing in trees, woman standing next to truck in right foreground, metal barrels stacked on rack in center background]
Keywords: Annette Island
Collection: B2016.024
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.10.15
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B1990.014.5.EQ.18.16.14
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_18
B1990.014.5.AKNative.16.63
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2210.25
E-42 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, female dancers holding sticks, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.022.859
(Presbyterian Church Anchorage)
Keywords: worship
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.42.35
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2008.013.85
[buses parked outside of Timberline Lodge, sign reading "Saddle Horses", mountains in background]
Collection: B2008.013
B1989.016.2079.13
[aerial with Merrill Field in foreground, Anchorage buildings in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2021.010.179
[1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection
B1989.016.1708
(Native dancers from Nome. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ellanna in Anchorage for Fur Rendezvous, Feb. 24, 1950) [studio portrait of man and woman in fur parkas]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.762
L9 Ranger's cabin, McKinley National Park "cache" [same as .762, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1979
T207 Soldotna, Alaska " Main Street, 1954" [street scene; with Roger's Garage, Bear En (or Bear End?); gravel road; structures; automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.002.102
Slides with images of Fleming family members and friends.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B1990.014.5.People.14.254.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1989.016.820.2
P-338B. 8-7-36. Hewitt's (Store in Palmer, Folio 26) [interior of store with produce display]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.People.14.336
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.5.P.28.7.23
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P28
B1990.014.2018.1.68.006
25-3; loading tierces on Northsea [casks being loaded onto ship; sailor in left background; likely Ketchikan, 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.122.13
[three spldiers carrying backpacks walking across flat in fog]
Keywords: military, hiking
Collection: B1995.014
B90.14.5.AncAir.16.150
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 16
B1990.014.5.P.2.28.4B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B2009.049.32
Gambell Centennial workers are framing a summerhouse as part of their Centennial program.
Collection: B2009.049
B1983.091.S4176.50
Earthquake damaged two storied house in the Central Business District.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock