Are you sure you want to delete image ?
To Search, simply enter a word or phrase in the search box and click on the Search button (or hit Enter).
In the search results, the search term is highlighted to indicate where the match was made.
Clicking on the thumbnail image opens a larger version of the image (zoomable), with that image being part of a slideshow of all of the images on the page.
The bookmark icon can be selected to flag the image to be included in a "bookmark" list.
The collection name is linked to a search of all of the images in that collection, and if a PDF finding aid for the collection exists, an icon is displayed that links to that file.
In the search results, the search term is highlighted to indicate where the match was made.
To view a list of collections click on the 
icon in the top-right of the screen:
You can search for a collection by entering text in the search field, or you can view a list of collections by year by clicking on item in the list:
Clicking on a collection name will display all of the images from that collection. The number of images in the collection is displayed in parentheses. Clicking on the 
icon will display the finding aid for the collection (if available):
To view a list of collections click on the 
icon in the top-right of the screen:
You can search for a collection by entering text in the search field, or you can view a list of collections by year by clicking on item in the list:
Images may be bookmarked to simplify finding them at a later time. To bookmark an image, click on the 
icon located next to the image number:
The bookmark icon will change to black to indicate that the image has been bookmarked, and the bookmark icon in the top-right of the screen will turn white, with the number of bookmarked images indicated to the left:
To view your bookmarked images, click on the white bookmark icon in the top-right of the screen with the number next to it.
The Anchorage Museum library includes books, maps, and print resources focused on Alaska and the Circumpolar North. The public is welcome to access the collection and conduct research on-site during open hours, or by appointment.
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.
B1989.016.2234
[young woman with headscarf, pierced nose, and beaded labret]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.004.30.11
AFN, Wainwright, dancing, 8010251 [dancer wearing beaded headband]
Collection: B2016.004
B1989.016.2331
[painting of Alaska Native man in parka with beaded ties. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.046.49
Savoonga (Lee’s) [portrait of Alaska Native girl with beads in braided hair]
Collection: B1991.046
B2017.029.2351
[boy wearing headdress and beaded vest drumming; print date Oct 81]
Collection: B2017.029
B1989.016.2041.1
[text of advertisement, "Da-Lite Beaded Screens for movies slides $995 30x40 on stand"]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2041.2
[text of advertisement, "Da-Lite Beaded Screens for movies slides $995 30x40 on stand"]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2235
[Alaska Native woman with headdress, beaded necklaces, parka with fur ruff. cf. .1455.3]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.029.2197
Haines [young boy wearing beaded tunic and headband; print date Jun 84]
Collection: B2017.029
B2017.029.2349
[young man wearing headdress and beaded vest drumming; print date Oct 81]
Collection: B2017.029
B2017.029.2350
[young man wearing headdress and beaded vest dancing with fans; print date Oct 81]
Collection: B2017.029
B2024.001.400
“Anchorage Ind. Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). A line of automobiles in the parade route. In the front automobile, two Indigenous individuals sit on the hood. The individual on the right wears a feathered and beaded headdress with fur tassels, beaded gauntlets and beaded leather pants and vest. On the left, the individual wears a beaded, woven, and tasseled dress and beaded jewelry. In the second automobile, the individual on the left wears a feathered headdress and the two individuals on the right wear feathered headbands. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2017.029.2198
[woman wearing beaded headband and tunic, holding button blanket, Haines; print date Jun 84]
Collection: B2017.029
B2024.001.392
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). Three Indigenous individuals ride inside a black automobile. The individual on the passenger side front seat wears a beaded crown-shaped headband and beaded jewelry. The individual in the backseat also wears beaded jewelry. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2017.029.1910
[young girl wearing beaded mukluks and fur trimmed coveralls standing outdoors; print date Jun 90]
Collection: B2017.029
B1989.016.1455.1
43. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [Alaska Native woman with beaded headdress, lip and nose piercings. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.029.2969
Margaret, Savoonga [portrait of woman wearing beaded decoration in braided hair, Native Spirit Festival; print date Jun 84]
Collection: B2017.029
B2017.029.2969
Margaret, Savoonga [portrait of woman wearing beaded decoration in braided hair, Native Spirit Festival; print date Jun 84]
Collection: B2017.029
B2024.001.399
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). An individual walks or dances in the street wearing a black beaded raven hat and a black embroidered and beaded black parka. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Dancer, Regalia, Spectators, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B1989.016.1455.2
43. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [Alaska Native woman with fur and bead headdress, lip and nose piercings. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1455.2.edit
43. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [Alaska Native woman with fur and bead headdress, lip and nose piercings. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2151.3
Copyright 1904 by B.B. Dobbs, 192 (Nome) [portrait of Eskimo youth with braided hair, chin tattooing, beaded necklace and fur parka]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.543
No. 86. Eskimo bead workers. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [caption printed on negative backwards, or, printed correctly on emulsion side]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.007.46
[two Alaska Native women wearing print parkas and Athapascan style beaded mittens posed next to wood-shingle and tarpaper building]
Keywords: residences, clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2016.004.30.3
AFN, Wainwright, dancing, 8010251 [dancer wearing beaded headband. At AFN 2022, dancer identified as possibly being from Kaltag or Nulato area]
Collection: B2016.004
B2022.005.40
[Indigenous Alaskan girl and young woman seated on either side of breastfeeding mother; fur parka likely reindeer; mother and girl wearing beaded jewelry]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Child, Girl, Young woman, Woman, Mother, Toddler, Family, Breastfeeding, Parka, Reindeer, Fur, Hide, Mukluks, Seated, Clothing, Footwear, Jewelry, Beadwork, Beads, Necklace, Bracelet
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2261.1
[group portrait of Southeast Alaskan Natives in ceremonial dress, including Chilkat robes, headdresses, masks and beaded tunics, probably Tlingit. positive transparency. copy]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2261.2
[group portrait of Southeast Alaskan Natives in ceremonial dress, including Chilkat robes, headdresses, masks and beaded tunics, probably Tlingit. positive transparency. copy]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2261.3
[group portrait of Southeast Alaskan Natives in ceremonial dress, including Chilkat robes, headdresses, masks and beaded tunics, probably Tlingit. positive transparency. copy]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.009.659
Tanana Indian Chief, c. Geo. L. Johnson [man wearing beaded jacket, moccasins poses holding a bow(?) while standing atop an animal hide]
Collection: B2009.009
B2019.007.642
Togiak, 1991; photographer number 2-T22-13 [Grass harvesting; person arranging dried grass in bundles o plywood floor; beaded bracelets]
Collection: B2019.007
B2024.001.401
“Anchorage Ind. Parade AK. Day Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). Two youths sit on the roof of a automobile wearing beaded and woven headbands and clothing. They wave feather batons and wear beaded hair ties in their pigtails. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B1980.050.29
The Merrill Studio, Sitka, Alaska [Sitka Potlatch 1904 (Dec). Tlingit men in regalia, including Raven crest hats, speaker's staff, and beaded moccasin-pants.]
Collection: B1980.050 Roy Barron
B1989.016.1455.3
44. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [three Alaska Native women in regalia, with fur and bead headdress, two with lip and nose piercings. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2261.4
[group portrait of four Southeast Alaskan Native men in ceremonial dress, including Chilkat robes, headdresses, and beaded tunics, probably Tlingit. positive transparency. copy]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.007.21
[Alaska Native woman and two children posed outdoors, woman wearing parka and Athapascan style beaded mittens, young girl wearing Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B2022.002.34
Cal Williams speaking with Alaska Public Media [Cal Williams wearing kente cloth hat and wooden beads, doing interview on local public television station]
Keywords: Cal Williams, Alaska Public Media, Television, Interviews
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2014.013.15
[man with mustache wearing vest, jacket, beaded moccasins, and brimmed hat standing next to plate of potatoes set on wooden crate, log cabins in background, Knik? Cf. .14]
Keywords: clothing, agriculture, residences
Collection: B2014.013
B2018.023.145a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [woman wearing buckskin dress, beaded headband and necklaces poses on a rock looking at the water; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.146a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [woman and man wearing buckskin clothing, headdresses of beads and feathers, necklaces, belts pose for portrait; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.2046.6
Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska (Early Alaska Pilots, McGee and Star Airways) [man in fur hat, caribou fur parka and Athabascan beaded mittens standing in front of airplane in winter]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.145b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: woman wearing buckskin dress, beaded headband and necklaces poses on a rock looking at the water; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1995.014.116.6
[Alaska Native man wearing coveralls and beaded moccasins standing on ladder to fish drying rack, two women wearing headscarves seated on platform inside drying rack cleaning salmon, Russian Mission]
Keywords: clothing, fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.54.11
Bill O'Brien, trapper, Fort Yukon, 1934 [portrait of man wearing broad-brimmed hat and suspenders, standing outside at town auction next to woman wearing Athabascan-style beaded baby belt]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B2018.023.146b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: woman and man wearing buckskin clothing, headdresses of beads and feathers, necklaces, belts pose for portrait; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1995.014.54.12
Auction sale after a town member's death, Fort Yukon, 1934 [white and Athabascan men and women standing outdoors, trapper Bill O'Brien at right, woman in center wearing Athabascan-style beaded baby belt, Yukon River in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.54.17
Auction sale after a town member's death, Fort Yukon, 1934 [Athabascan men, women, and children standing outdoors, girl in center eating apple, woman at right wearing Athabascan-style beaded baby belt, Yukon River in background]
Keywords: clothing, food
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.007.12
[group portrait of Alaska Native family, with father, mother, and two children posed outdoors next to log cabin, woman wearing Athapascan style beaded mittens and parka, children wearing parkas, man wearing Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.112
[two Alaska Native men posed outdoors, one man wearing Western style clothing and driving cap and holding camera case, one man wearing fur pants and suit coat and holding Athapascan style beaded mittens, buildings in background]
Keywords: clothing, cameras, photography
Collection: B2015.007
B2024.001.382
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). One Indigenous individual in white regalia, beaded gauntlets, and a feathered headdress rides a black horse. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Rider, Horse, Regalia, Spectators, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs