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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.
B2007.005.6.A7
[unknown native woman standing outside infront of entrance to an underground house ]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1973.079.154
[Three Native Alaskans and several reindeer standing by sled in the snow]
Keywords: winter, reindeer, native, eskimo, central yupik natives, parkas
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.62
[Valdez 1906 street scene, with the signage for "Alaska Prospector"]
Keywords: frontier, town
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1989.016.1459.3
(Native handicraft) [young girl on wooden bench in large room sewing parka, other women sitting along the wall. Nulato orphanage, 1937]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.56
[Indigenous Alaskan mother carrying infant on back midwinter; woman wearing elaborately decorated parka]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Mother, Child, Infant, Baby, Woman, Family, Carrying, Baby wearing, Winter, Snow, Parka, Geometric design, Pattermed, Fur, Decorative, Elaborate, Mukluks, Clothing, Outerwear, Footwear
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1973.079.141
[unknown mountainous and rocky coastline as seen from the rail of a vessel sailing offshore][negative cracked]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.87
[sled dogs pulling a sled with several men standing around]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B2022.005.31
[Indigenous Alaskan Elder woman standing outside midwinter; animal hides on wooden rail at left.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Elder, Woman, Outside, Winter, Snow, Parka, Mukluks, Animal, Hides, Skin, Fur, Pelt, Drying, Rail
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1973.079.57a
[Chilkoot Barracks at Fort Seward, Haines, Alaska 1906]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1973.079.63
[Valdez 1906 with tailoring and clothing shop in foreground and mountains in the background]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B2017.024.1049
Jan71P7 #16034 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing green, fur trimmed parka, white mukluks dances; hand of second dancer seen at left. At AFN 2022, individual identified as ? Kogak of Wainwright performing a Point Hope dance]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Point Hope, Dancing, Parka
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.010.4891
[group of boys gathered next to building, probably at start of race on Fourth of July, one boy wearing a sombrero, motorcycle at left, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B2022.005.265
[two Indigenous women possibly processing an animal on the ground]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.248
[an Indigenous man and woman standing in summer parkas and boots in front of a building]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, parka, boots
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2015.007.22
[young Alaska Native man posed outdoors next to large building in winter, wearing cloth parka and billed cap, child at left wearing fur parka with walrus-tusk gussets, young man wearing Western style clothing posed next to loaded sled in background, two other people leaning against building in background right]
Keywords: clothing, transportation
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.85
[Alaska Native family next to wood-plank building, all wearing cloth parkas with fur trim]
Keywords: clothing, residences
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.145.1
Sydney Laurence painting, S.S. Yukon at dock.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.552
D39 The popular Norris team at Anchorage "Natalie Norris and team (from Kodachrome) [copy neg, same as .551]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2019.003.075
“Anvik, Christ Church Mission" Former boys house, present infirmary [exterior of building in winter, platform in front. Original image blurry]
Collection: B2019.003
B2017.024.1053
Jan71P7 #16038 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing red fur trimmed parka, eyeglasses sings and gestures]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Singing
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.462
D3 Alaskan travel by dog team "Ed Holm's dog team" [possible copy neg; flipped version of .460, .461]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.148
[a family group in front of house on board walk with children in sled that is being pulled by dog]
Keywords: family, children, winter, sledding, dogs
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1991.011.456b
"Nelson Island: Umkumiut, E. Clements photographer, Dup" [same as .455]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1995.014.2.10
Willow and people [machinery parked in a field next to a small corrugated metal shed, low hills in distance, agriculture? mining?]
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.012.12
U.S. Jail, Nushagak, Alaska [man standing on porch of wood-plank building with bell tower]
Collection: B2014.012
B2015.007.52
[elder Alaska Native man and woman posed next to log cabin in winter, man wearing squirrel fur parka, woman wearing print parka with fur trim, icicles hanging from eaves]
Keywords: clothing, residences
Collection: B2015.007
B1998.014.1.443
B141 Anchorage Municipal Auditorium [corner building; automobiles, pickup truck, station wagaon with boat on roof, pulling camper trailer]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2186.4
(Sid's Dog Racing, Feb. 28, 1967) [musher leading seven-dog team down Anchorage street past spectators, some people standing in trees along street, Fur Rendezvous sled dog races. Photo by Sidney Hamilton]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection