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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.
B2009.017.1987.10.01
Oil! We found Oil!!! You idiot..This is groundwater... News item: 70% of known groundwater contamination in Alaska caused by petroleum products Thursday Oct 1, 1987
Keywords: Anchorage Daily News, comics, cartoons, political
Collection: B2009.017
B2009.017.1984.05.26
“Our energy policy? Burn petroleum byproducts” ©1984 Sat. May 26, 1984 [people shoving Oil Revenue money into Hydro Bail-Outs, Susitna Studies, and Rate Equalization Subsidy furnaces. Pencil study on verso]
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.004.00047
Union/Marathon Trading Bay, oil exploration and production. Photographer's number: 00047 [print date Jul 65]
Keywords: petroleum industry
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.00470
Begin Pan Am platform, Shell in back, Cook Inlet oil expl. Photographer's number 00470. [print date Jun 65]
Keywords: petroleum industry
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.4.MF.P.14.18907
Looking north Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline about 75 miles north of Fairbanks. Photographer's number 18907. Date stamp: Sep 10 1979
Keywords: oil, petroleum industry, TAPS
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / Medium Format
B1990.014.004.14191
Continental Divide: Atigun Pass, Brooks Range, pipeline is buried, 130 miles from Prudhoe. Photographer's number 14191. Dated July 25 '77. Slide category TAPS summer views
Keywords: oil, petroleum industry
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.19724
Pump Sta 1 and pipeline headed for Valdez 786 miles south. Photographer's number 19724. Date stamp Sep 4 1979. Slide category TAPS Pump Station #1
Keywords: oil, petroleum industry
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.26671
Oil pipeline terminal at Valdez. Photographer's number 26671. Date stamp: Jul 12 1983. Slide category TAPS completed terminal
Keywords: oil, petroleum industry
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1995.014.18.10
[man standing near well drilling machinery, mountains in distance]
Keywords: water, petroleum industry
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.9.15
Helicopters landing in Marshall after World War II taking geologists to look for oil. There were no helicopters in Marshall until after the war. [Alaska Airlines helicopter on beach near lumber]
Keywords: aviation, petroleum industry
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.9.16
Helicopters landing in Marshall after World War II taking geologists to look for oil. There were no helicopters in Marshall until after the war. [helicopter flying low over river]
Keywords: aviation, petroleum industry
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.9.17
Helicopters landing in Marshall after World War II taking geologists to look for oil. There were no helicopters in Marshall until after the war. [helicopter flying low over river]
Keywords: aviation, petroleum industry
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.9.18
Helicopters landing in Marshall after World War II taking geologists to look for oil. There were no helicopters in Marshall until after the war. [Alaska Airlines helicopter landing on beach near lumber]
Keywords: aviation, petroleum industry
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.019.259
Oil well, Chickaloon, Alaska, 7-5-42 [wooden well frame in wooded area with fireweed] [similar to B2014.019.260]
Keywords: Petroleum, Chickaloon, Ahtna, Dr. Flora, Doctor Flora
Collection: B2014.019