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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.
B2022.005.245
[a white man in military uniform and an Indigenous woman in western clothes standing with a crowd of people behind them]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, military, Alaska
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2015.012.209
Gertrude Smith & Moses [studio portrait of Alaska Native man. Copy neg]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.012
B1994.022.393Z.1
(Airplanes)[airplane on snow field preparing to take off]
Keywords: airplane
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1985.027.2396
Originally in B8 F154. Wien Eskimos. Dancing. 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1985.027.2437
[from verso] Eskimos - hunting; Wien Air Alaska photo by Frank Whaley [two children stand in shallow water holding what is likely a dead seal; shore ice and sea ice in background; one child wears a construction helmet]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1985.027.1576
Mrs. V. Johnson, Cook at Platinum R. H. 1450.90.13 [Possible Ward Wells Stock Number]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B2017.024.2623
Nome People, July 1983 [interior scene of man on telephone; papers, styrofoam cup on desk]
Collection: B2017.024
B2006.023.2861.jpg
Iditarod Trail Championship Race Starting Line.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B1998.014.1.1095
N6 Anchorage, Alaska (CIty Hall; 1946 postcard) [winter scene, snow, Christmas lights, tree, hoarfrost "Keep off grass" sign]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.2450.jpg
Happiness is [finish line] Front Street, Nome, AK.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B1998.014.1.1692
T56 church at Unalaska [copy neg, view of Holy Ascension Russian Orthodox Church, graveyard, cemetary, structures, domicles, road, fences, shorline, Iliuliuk Bay, automobile]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.3344
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [Savoonga; spring breakup scene; children on boardwalk; structures; people near umiak in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3313
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [metal sledge parked on tracks left in grass by continuous track vehicle; mining operation structures in distance; dragline; tailings]; mountains and snow in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2006.023.3908.jpg
Ice and gravel on the south fork of the Kuskokwim.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B1998.014.1.1828
(T127 Fairbanks 2nd Ave) [street scene; people on sidewalk at right; automobiles, flag hanging over street; businesses: Pioneer Cab, Coca-Cola billboard, Monsey's Pantorium Cleaners, Circle Hot Springs billboard, Daily News Miner, Lucille's Apparel, Peerless Coffee Shop]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1825
(T125 Fairbanks, Downtown) [street scene, similar tp .1824]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.735.1
Aviation Field, Anchorage, Alaska [first flight Anchorage - Fairbanks, July 1924. Airplane "Anchorage" with tail number T4656. Man standing on airplane is Bill Yunker. Man on left against wing is Noel Wien. Cf. B1965.002.13]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.733.1
Chris float job with sheep [Christensen Air Service float plane with Dall sheep trophies on floats]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1957.007.9
(Russ Merrill's Travel Air 7000 (he was killed in this plane) on the right Noel Wien's Stinson Detroiter (Wien Alaska Airways), taken at Fairbanks) [Anchorage Air Transport plane with "Anchorage No. 1" painted on side, crowd standing in front of planes at Weeks Field]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1959.x_001 Government Hill Housing Projects / B1957_007 Russel Hyde Merrill Papers