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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.
B2017.033.304
Whittier train at Campbell, engine 3007, 10-76 [locomotive 3007 with one passenger car and caboose proceeding past sign for Campbell; print date Nov 76]
Collection: B2017.033
B2017.033.305
Whittier train x-ing Arctic Blvd at Campbell, 10-76 [locomotive, passenger car, and caboose in bicentennial paint at road crossing; print date Nov 76]
Collection: B2017.033
B2016.004.565
[people gathered around large rock with memorial plaque next to building, Saint Paul; print date Nov 83]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.560
Russian Orthodox church, St. Paul Island, Alaska, Sts. Peter & Paul, 1983 [bird’s eye view of man lighting candles inside church]
Keywords: religion
Collection: B2016.004
B1997.003.079
[two men, one wearing fedora, one wearing a cap, standing on high point above dock, ship, building and dock on pilings, water. Image is blurry]
Collection: B1997.003
B2013.075.38
Copper Center, 1966 [woman standing outside house]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B2013.075
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.96
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.3923.jpg
Dick Mackey & Orville Lake in Nome, 1973.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999
B1990.014.004.12306
Just north of Nenana Bridge Spiker is Gov Dot Officer Jun 1973 12306 50th Ann Driving of Gold Spike ARR Mgr (L) W. Johnson, (Near) Sam Chamis old section boss
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2017.029.2000
[three men wearing Yup’ik headdresses and holding dance sticks performing on small stage in gymnasium; print date Feb 77]
Collection: B2017.029
B1994.009.1040
Equipment and laboratory [likely in Anchorage, 1957; White Alice]
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B2016.004.96.144
Valley Feature 4/18, 7904182-7904183, McKinley Farm, 4/22, 7904225-7904227 [157 b&w images. Photo essay “Pioneer Dentist” ran in Anchorage Daily News on April 24, 1979.Lee and Doris McKinley with patient in dental office]
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.011.147
Alaska ’47 – Bethel, Nunivak Eskimo demonstrating harpoon technique to Ray Petersen [Yupik man wearing driving cap hurling harpoon, Ray Petersen standing at right]
Collection: B2017.011
B2017.024.1184
May68P3 #01900 Bethel [child standing on boardwalk in front of log cabin wearing breakup boots; corrugated roof; fish on drying rack on neighboring rooftop; bicycles; red wagon; wash tubs; logs; ladder; note unusual shape for door in arctic entry of cabin]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.029.1996
[two tourists posed with Alaska Native woman wearing headscarf and fancy fur parka; print date Feb 77]
Collection: B2017.029
B2016.004.962
Cleaning the shoreline, Bethel, AK [excavator removing junk automobiles piled along shore, man sitting on bluff at right; print date Sep 84]
Keywords: erosion, climate change, debris
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.011.144
Alaska ’48 – Aniak, Rep. Len Hall of N.Y. with pike [Leonard W. Hall holding fish]
Collection: B2017.011
B2014.016.223
San Juan's "Viekoda" at trap [fishing boat at commercial fish trap, San Juan Cannery]
Keywords: canneries
Collection: B2014.016
B2017.024.1171
May68P3 #01886 Bethel [Yup'ikchild wearing red hooded parka and break-up boots holds slingshot; dirt road; snow; debris in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Yup'ik, Bethel, Mamterilleq
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1158
Alaska - Eskimo kids play in Barrow street in winter, 1986 [image likely taken between 1961-1971; actually, a group of Inupiat adults and children standing outside wearing parkas; one child holding back of a toy sled; structures in background; possible storage structure in foreground; snow]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Sled
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1176
May68P3 #01891 Bethel [two Yup'ik children wearing parkas stand in doorway to possible arctic entry; curtain draped in open position; one child carries paper bag; snow; snow fence; structures]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Yup'ik, Bethel, Mamterilleq
Collection: B2017.024
B2018.021.200
Piper PA 20 N7080K, Chickaloon duck flats, 50s [three men standing next to airplane, duck shack at right] [Ahtna, Nay’dini’aa Na’ Kayax]
Keywords: Nay’dini’aa Na’ Kayax, Chickaloon, Flats, Plane, Piper PA-20, Piper PA 20, N7080K, Bush, Flying, Duck, Hunt, Hunter, Hunting, Building, Shack, Wally Wellenstein, Wallace Wellenstein, Wallace J. Wellenstein, Wally J. Wellenstein, Wellenstein
Collection: B2018.021
B2016.004.878
Tim Osmar, Clam Gulch, AK [musher riding motorbike on beach with team harnessed to bike; print date Sep 84]
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.024.1156
Alaska - Eskimo kids play in Barrow street in summer, 1986 [1961?; five Inupiat children play and laugh while looking at camera; metal drums (containers) in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Children
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1157
Alaska - Eskimo kids play in Barrow street in summer, 1986 [1961?; two Inupiat children, one wearing torn parka; structure in distance]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Children
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.011.143
Alaska ’48 – Aniak, Sam’s store, mecca of rivermen [men and boys sitting on steps of Independent Trading Store]
Collection: B2017.011
B2017.011.145
Alaska ’47 – Nunapitchuk (Kuskokwim), Eskimo belles in fall parkas. Note red cheeks (probable t.b.) [[group of children standing next to tent and log cabin. Cf. B2013.006.2.371. At AFN 2016, boy third from left identified as Toopelook, boy fourth from left as Anders]
Collection: B2017.011
B1985.027.2716
Originally in B9 F177. Wien. [Group pulling small whale to shore.] 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B2017.024.1155
Alaska - Eskimo mother and child - Barrow in summer 1986 [1961?; Inupiaq woman wearing yellow and white scarf, coat with fur ruff, eyeglasses holds child; dogs at left; road in distance]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Woman, Children
Collection: B2017.024