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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.
B1997.003.040
[two men posing in front of mining equipment; one with rifle over shoulder; barrels]
Collection: B1997.003
B1997.003.093
[two men at work site, one carrying a lunchbox; lumber and rocky slope in background]
Collection: B1997.003
B1984.077.7.035
Alaska Road Commission [sign, log cabin, two men at doorway, one possibly Lo Pinto?, metal triangle, dinner bell? mountains, trees in background.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1995.014.107.6
[baseball game underway on military base, with hangars and water tower, mountains in distance, Fort Richardson?]
Keywords: sports, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.13
Jim Douglas's grave, he died in 1947, alone, he was a miner [white picket fenced grave with marker for James A. Douglas]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.75.11
[dog harnessed to sled sitting on winter trail, dog wearing one booty]
Keywords: animals, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B2022.005.151
[People in uniforms (possibly Civil Air Patrol or US Air Force) milling around; USAF vehicle at left, buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, People, Uniform, Air Force, USAF, U.S.A.F., Bus, Vehicle, Transportation, Buildings, Civil Air Patrol, CAP, C.A.P.
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.2229
alaska black bear. Alaska Shop "Alaska black bear & Flynn" [man posing next to bear cub on chain standing on stump; man's gloved hand is in bear's jaw]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1240.10
Anchorage High School and Auditorium. Hewitt's, 111 [exterior, front, oblique]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.28.10
F-E Co. 1942 [crane scooping gravel at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1059
(M12 Dragline, PC; placer mining for gold in Alaska) [Bucyrus Monighan drgline]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.416
Bee hives, with exits kept clear, March 1923 [Dora standing behind rows of boxes in deep snow]
Collection: B2015.008
B2016.010.150
[window display in gift shop with teddy bears and totem poles, man with camera taking photograph visible in reflection, Sitka]
Keywords: tourism, photography
Collection: B2016.010
B1989.016.1060
#202. Knik Bridge. Hewitt's Photo Shop [bridge under construction]
Keywords: construction
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1061.1
P-300. A Colonist's home & garden. Hewitt's [cabbage patch in foreground, wood frame house behind, Palmer/Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1061.2
P-299. Hewitt's [homestead with garden, wood pile, wood frame house and outbuilding, Palmer/Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.116.006
41-5; nite scenes of University Way [street scene including Dresslar Hardware; furniture store; G.O. Guy Drugs; clock reading 10:35; automobiles; March 1-3, 1940; Seattle, Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.116.006
41-5; nite scenes of University Way [street scene including Dresslar Hardware; furniture store; G.O. Guy Drugs; clock reading 10:35; automobiles; March 1-3, 1940; Seattle, Washington]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.16.10
[portrait of dog lying on frozen river next to backpack, skis, and ski poles, mountains in distance]
Keywords: animals, transportation, sports
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.29.14
F-E Co. 1942 [crane scooping gravel at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.208.003
66-1; March 1941; Barnyard scene taken at old farm near Duvall [Washington; wood and wagon and steel wagon wheel on upturned cart (?) in front of wood structure; trees and fence at left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1997.003.253
[aerial view of buildings, small village along waterway, possibly river or bay]
Collection: B1997.003
B1998.014.1.2592
"Map of Mexico Guatimala [sic]" [1829 map; Guatemala]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2361
Kotzebue, June 1967 [woman wearing velvet parka holding what is likely a wooden net shuttle sits with net across her lap near an overturned umiak]
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.010.4941
[young woman wearing fancy parka standing with sled dog, two men on motorbike in background, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.531
[elephants in parade passing Columbia Lumber Company of Alaska on Fourth Avenue near K Street, automobiles parked in street in foreground, McKinley Apartments in distance, 1954. Cf. .431
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1311a
(O92 "Your sad story touched my heart") [man reclined in chair, boots, feet propped up, hand on Nawico bottle, calendar on wall, table, shelves]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.Album1.244
Break water dams at point below Twenty Mile Creek. P. S. Hunt J1852 [view down Alaska Northern Railway/Alaska Railroad tracks looking south, Turnagain Arm at right, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2141.8
D-8. A spring day north of Arctic Circle, Noatak, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [snow, dwellings, and drying racks, with mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.3355
June 1971 [likely Savoonga; spring breakup scene; men standing and sitting near doorway of structure; man carving tusk; children, snow, laundry on clothesline; snowmanchines; dog]
Collection: B2017.024
B1992.003.001
Ahtna men [wo men wearing suit jackets, vest, holding hats at their thighs, pose in front of small trees, possibly aspens]
Collection: B1992.003
B1997.003.101
[men at work; bulldozer, drag line, materials, building at center right]
Collection: B1997.003
B1997.003.102
[men at work; drag line lifting materials; men in center left of image]
Collection: B1997.003
B2017.024.2369
Kotzebue June 1967 [woman wearing parka with baby in hood sits in front of wood structure; metal drums; tools hanging on wall of structure; similar to .2272]
Collection: B2017.024