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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.
B1985.027.1588
Eskimo lady pegging out large seal skins ro dry at Point Hope where we have our Trail Blazer tour. [stamp] Wien Air Alaska, Photo by Frank Whaley, Fairbanks, Alaska
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1989.016.477.7
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1997.012.012
Canneries. S.E. Alaska Naha Bay. [?] of lake and cannery at Naha Bay. 1885.
Collection: B1997.012 Christian Rohlfing Collection
B2000.017.038
[log building in Arctic Village, possibly church]
Keywords: education, school, religion
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2000.017.17
[five men standing on tundra, man wearing blue parka with embroidered design holding camera, two men at right smoking cigarettes, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2000.017.19
[three elder women wearing print parkas and young girl sitting next to low tent, whalebones and umiaks in background, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2000.017.310
541 [commercial slide. Woman wearing headscarf and print parka with fur trim standing indoors holding two dead birds; no date]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2016.019.1.01a.13692.27
Flowers and Statue, Chena Park, Fairbanks, Alaska [Alaska Cities - Fairbanks], c. 1999
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Alaska Cities, Fairbanks, Chena Park, Statues, Flowers
Collection: B2016.019
B1989.016.477.6
Christensen Air Service, WACO on Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage [float plane NC2335 landing on mud flats]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2001.036.1215
Nelda Kinneeveauk & brother Charlie, picnic on beach. Point Hope, 6-81
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B1991.011.1166
Point Hope, 1946, sod igloos and terrain; Mary Louise & Esk[imo] children; old sod & whalebone house (igloo) [adults and children wearing parkas, mukluks pose in snow in front of structure]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2017.021.9
Pacific Stereopticon Co. [Alaska Native men dancing and drumming, with large group of spectators, in front of building. Tinted. Tint flaking]
Collection: B2017.021
B1989.016.564.1
A-56 B. Seldovia, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.004.permafrost.jul74p5.9
Frost thawing surcharged the soils to semi liquidity when the flowing occurred. Monkmeyer Press [print date Jul 74 P5]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2013.066.116
13. Whaling feast at Point Hope, Alaska. Distribution of meat by successful whaling captain
Keywords: hunting, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2013.066
B1991.011.120
"Eek 1949; 'Cache'" [winter scene with caches, fishing nets, barrels, possbly upturned boats]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2015.007.141
[two women and young girl outdoors in winter in sparsely wooded area, one woman wearing fur parka with geometric decoration, woman with back to camera and young girl wearing print parkas with fur trim]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B1990.014.004.02518
ARR depot and Mt. Susitna, mid March 1954. Photographer's number 2518
Keywords: Anchorage, night
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.05617
Cutting way through the broken ice so Eskimos can get their skin boat to sea. Point Hope. Photographer's number: 05617. Stamp: 06 20 1968. Pro Pix.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1991.011.1190
Point Hope, 1957; Myra Lisbourne & child; the clinic [woman holding boy]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.1202
Point Hope, 1946 [men and woman pose; one man and woman wear parkas; all wear mukluks]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2021.004.187
Ed Wesley and others with M. Ashley Dickerson [Ed Wesley at podium with Rosa Parks to his left. NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson, Rosa Parks, NAACP, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Black is Brilliant, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1990.014.2018.1.15.004
4-2; Portraits - Sylvia Olsen [1939?; portrait of woman with shoulders exposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.15.004
4-2; Portraits - Sylvia Olsen [1939?; portrait of woman with shoulders exposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.15.005
4-2; Portraits - Sylvia Olsen [1939?; portrait of woman sitting on bench wearing robe with shoulders exposed; backlit with lamp]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.15.005
4-2; Portraits - Sylvia Olsen [1939?; portrait of woman sitting on bench wearing robe with shoulders exposed; backlit with lamp]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.160.001
52-3 Mrs. Ohasi [sic: Ohashi] & Hope in native dress [two women, Hope and Homatsu Ohashi, pose wearing kimonos and obis; Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.160.002
52-3 Mrs. Ohasi [sic: Ohashi] & Hope in native dress [two women, Hope and Homatsu Ohashi, pose wearing kimonos and obis; Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.160.003
52-3 Mrs. Ohasi [sic: Ohashi] & Hope in native dress [two women, Hope and Homatsu Ohashi, pose wearing kimonos and obis; Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1989.016.242
D-73. Eskimo sewing class. [George Dale? White Mountain?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.004.35188
4th Ave from west of K Str late evening March 1947 Photographer's number: 35188 [Fourth Avenue street scene, night, winter, 4th Avenue Theater, Chugach Mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4