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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.
B1989.016.356.1
Glover's Service Station [1930? Standard Gasoline, Alemite Service]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album.Coal.Chute.Nenana
Coal Chute at Nenana (Transferring from Standard to Narrow Gauge) Dec. 11, 1921
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1965.018.697
The Oil Town of Kanatak, AK: Asso. Oil & Standard oil freight yards
Collection: B1965.018 Fred Henton
B1979.002.5013
Baggage and Freaight Chute at Nenana transferring from Standard to Narrow Guage Dec 4th 1921
Keywords: railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.1633
(Standard Oil Tanks, Anchorage) [Anchorage port area, with tank farm overlooking Cook Inlet]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.P.1.9
(Coastal for Standard [drill site with mobile home trailer, structures, fuel tanks, snow, chimney in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P1
B1979.002.5012
Coal chute at Nenana transferring from standard to Narrow guage_Dec 11 1921 (Nenana AK 12-11-21)
Keywords: railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.356.6
Glover's Service Station [1932? Standard Gasoline, Alemite Service, Monark Batteries, Wells, Storage, 1933 Oldsmobile]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.356.7
Glover's Service Station [1932? Standard Gasoline, Alemite Service, Monark Batteries, Wells, Storage, 1933 Oldsmobile. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.1750
Clarissa on deck of ship at dock, looking down on passengers and automobiles, gas canisters at left, Standard Oil of California warehouse in center]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1894
T155 Seward, Alaska (depot & train) [copy neg, automobiles, structures, "Standard of California" siign in distance; mountains in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.1798
[Alaska Steamship Co. steamship Denali approaching dock, sign for Standard Oil in center, small boats at anchor at left, mountains in background, Sitka?]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.025.1090
[aerial of icebreaker Knik Bay at dock, Port of Anchorage, Miller-Dalton Co. Standard Oil Products building at right, storage tanks in background]
Keywords: Icebreaker, Boat, Equipment, Knik Bay, Dock, Docked, Anchorage, Port, Miller-Dalton Co., Miller-Dalton Company, Standard Oil Products, Oil, Business, Building, Storage, Tanks, Aerial, View
Collection: B2015.025
B1990.014.2018.1.17.005
5-1; April 1939; Panatonic x 40-24; woman with dog [woman with leashed dog on boardwalk, unleashed dog on road; Standard Oil Company of California on right; storage tanks; structures on left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.17.005
5-1; April 1939; Panatonic x 40-24; woman with dog [woman with leashed dog on boardwalk, unleashed dog on road; Standard Oil Company of California on right; storage tanks; structures on left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.58.9
[portrait of Native family outside store, man, woman, and children in Western and traditional dress next to log building with Hills Bros. Coffee thermometer and can of Standard Gasoline, woman wearing kuspuk, mukluks, and baby belt]
Keywords: clothing, food, footwear
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.1509.10
(Fourth Avenue between E & D Streets, south side) [Anchorage street scene with pedestrians and automobile parked outside businesses including KFQD, [?] Produce, Standard Plumbing W'ks, and Kennedy's. circa 1930-1940]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.030a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [winter scene of child wearing fur parka stands behind or in a wooden Standard Oil Company Pearl Oil box; possible fence and animal in background; hand painted]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.030b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: winter scene of child wearing fur parka stands behind or in a wooden Standard Oil Company Pearl Oil box; possible fence and animal in background; hand painted]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.625
E44 An Alaskan family "at Fort Yukon" [man, woman wearing kuspuk, mukluks, with child on her back, two children standing, outside log structure, possibly a store, window, HIlls Bros. Coffee sign; Standard Gasoline can, wood crate to left, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.101.004
37-4 Exteriors at 1055 Stedman St [Ketchikan; January 1940; street view looking toward road leading to Standard Oil Company of California and water; fuel tank and tree stumps at right; ship in midground behind fuel tank; Pannock Island in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.101.004
37-4 Exteriors at 1055 Stedman St [Ketchikan; January 1940; street view looking toward road leading to Standard Oil Company of California and water; fuel tank and tree stumps at right; ship in midground behind fuel tank; Pannock Island in distance]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1845
T132 (T130 Valdez) [street scene on gravel surface; automobiles, semi truck; men near semi; structures; wooden wheeled wagons at left; steel drums (containers) at left; businesses: Valdez Transfer Co, Sherwin Williams Paint; Rooms; Café, Smith’s Liquor Store, Golden North Hotel, Hamms Beer, Alaska (?) Standard; mountains in background; birds on roof at left, possibly pigeons]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley