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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.
B1967.019.23L
Baseball Teams - Anchorage Millikere, May Beattie (MayQuinn Dehohn), Fanny Wilison, Louise Dixon, Flo Loas-name is this picture has Ramsey, Newton, Oca Spillman Biaori, Church, Peters, Anchorage 1915 (Spelling of names may be wrong, handwriting is hard to read.)
Collection: B1967.019 CIHS Isaacs
B1989.016.870.2
P-24. Hewitt's [horse team hitched to wagon, Matanuska Valley?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2270.5
(Road construction) [loading trucks with gravel]
Keywords: roads, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1997.019.06full
The old walrus hide is removed from the canoe, a new one put on, the crew bid.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B2015.008.377
Midsummer. Maples planted 50 years before [view from yard to house amid trees]
Collection: B2015.008
B1996.009.01afull
At the base of Cape Prince of Wales, the most westerly point on the American continent, there is Kingegan, an Eskimo village. During the month of May only each year, the more daring of the male population chase the bowhead whale through Bering Straits.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B1998.014.1.2510
"Construction site & men" [man wearing winter cap with ear flaps and neck flap]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2019.003.049
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Pie eating contest [onlookers including teachers watching students eating pie off plates without using hands, Fourth of July at Eklutna] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet (Eklutna)]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, School, Education, U.S. Government, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Pie, Pie eating contest, Contest, Competition, Girls, Boys, Children, Schoolchildren, Students, Indigenous, 4th of July, Fourth of July, Independence Day, Summer, Holiday, Teacher
Collection: B2019.003
B1998.014.1.1291
(O85 Anchorage Circus, July 8, 1954) [Cristiani Bros. Circus; elephants, performers, springboard, man jumping over elephant, net, cannon, trapeze, D & D Lounge; McAllister Signs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1285
O84 Oldest church in central Alaska at Eklutna [Old Saint Nicholas Church, exterior view of Russian Orthodox church, log strcture; bell tower, table near structure]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley