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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.
B1962.x.015 CIHS US Army Engineer District.04
Collection: B1962.x_022 CIHS Morgan / B1962_x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District CIHS U_S_ Army Engineer District
B1990.014.4.MF.Sci28.5127
Alaska is a land of contrasts tourists find hard to believe. Photographer's number: 05127 [Miss Alaska Jane Haycraft and Linda Chavis, champion skier, with fireweed, near Portage Glacier]
Keywords: wildflowers
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / Medium Format
B2014.003.18
[docks and buildings as viewed from the water of an unidentified town in south east coastal alska][copy of print from a training manual high school slide]
Collection: B2014.003
B2017.023.152
[Street scene, Skagway, AK, Kirmse's Curios, buildings, mountains in background]
Collection: B2017.023
B1989.016.144.1
Sydney Laurence painting, Northern light.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.023.132
[interior, woman with back to camera; women and men in background, windows, open window]
Collection: B2017.023
B2014.003.15
Juneau, Alaska E Andrews [Bird's eye view of Juneau Alaska]
Keywords: city, capital, docks, buildings houses, mountains
Collection: B2014.003
B2017.023.138
[Yukon River, buildings, pilings, hills, likely Whitehorse, YT, Canada]
Collection: B2017.023
B1998.014.1.1267
O73 The totem with the "guilt" complex {Ketchikan guilty complex totem ([?] figure)} [Pointing Figure totem, Saxman Totem Park; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.335
(B68 Ketchikan Federal Bldg 3 negs) [automobiles, people in foreground; houses in distance; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1268
(O73 Ketchikan, Totem with the "guilt complex" [Pointing Figure totem in right foreground, Saxman Totem Park]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.336
(B68 Ketchikan Federal Bldg) [automobiles, people in foreground; houses in distance; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1964.001.088
(The Admiral Line Steamer Admiral Watson PSS.Co est. Date 1920)
Keywords: steamer, shipping, transportation
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B1998.014.1.334
(B67 Cordova Post Office) [street view, gravel street, buildings, automobiles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2012.030.2305
Siberian Eskimo dancers from Gambell, St. Lawrence Is., Anchorage, Alaska, 2/24/63
Collection: B2012.030
B2018.023.103a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print: “reflection on Lake Atlin, in Yukon Territory” hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1774
(T93 Dawson Creek, British Columbia whose prosperity is linked to the road) [street scene with buseinesses, automobiles: Dawson Creek Pharmacy; Children's wear; Dew Drop Inn Hotel; Mile 0 Alaska Hi-way signpost; Hertz; Yellow Cab; post office; Harper's Dry Goods, Footwear, Furs; church steeple]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1878
(T143 Girdwood) [summer street scene; boy walking near center of image; woman standing near open car door at right; bag on ground; The Little Dipper Inn, Post Office, Liquor Store, Hamms Beer sign, Cafe Hotel Cocktail Bar directional sign, structures, automobiles; structures, corrugated roof, gravel road, steel drums (containers) next to car at left, possibly with tap; mountains, glacier in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.103b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print: “reflection on Lake Atlin, in Yukon Territory” hand colored; verso of slide]
Collection: B2018.023
B2015.008.853
Russell, 1912 [Russell Glacier moraine in foreground, possibly White River in distance]
Keywords: glacier, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.2018.1.105.004
38-3 [Ketchikan; February 1940; boats near docks, pilings, Creek Street]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.105.004
38-3 [Ketchikan; February 1940; boats near docks, pilings, Creek Street]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1760
(T79 Ketchikan, Alaska; steamship "Alaska") [ship at dock, crates, log posts on dock; woman and man (possibly captian) stand on dock, gangplank, passengers, men, women; crane loading or unloading cargo in right background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley