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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.
B2008.029.11
[loading cargo onto Alaska Steamship Co. ship at dock]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2008.029
B1997.003.193
[view of piers, buildings; ship deck in foreground; cargo, including potatoes]
Collection: B1997.003
B1984.077.12.026
Cordova [Deck scene, trucks, people, rigging, cargo, water and mountains in distance.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.12.030
Cordova [Dock scene, man walking with camera (Mousseau?), cargo carts, worker.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1972.088.33
(boats and boating) {several barges beached with a horse drawn cart and 6 men moving_loading cargo}
Keywords: barge, Cook Inlet, ship creek, shipping, horses
Collection: B1972.088 Mueller
B1998.014.1.9856
Amchitka [soldiers loading cargo onto military airplane on runway, US Air Force airplane, after 1947]
Keywords: transportation, aviation, military
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1997.003.270
[People using a sled to move cargo to airplane; Alaska Air Express; beach, snow, trees in distance]
Collection: B1997.003
B2016.019.1.11e.10654.16
A N.A.C. Pilot in DC-6 cockpit, Anchorage, Alaska 7/94 [Planes and Airports - Northern Air Cargo], 1994
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Planes and Airports, Northern Air Cargo, NAC, People, Pilots
Collection: B2016.019
B1989.016.1449.4
#7. Transporting reindeer by plane, Naknek, Alaska [five reindeer lying in snow next to Star Airways airplane along with other cargo]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1598.2
[Merrill Field, with Pacific Airmotive hangar and numerous airplanes on the ground, including General Air Cargo NC41748 and airplane with tail number NC224]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.007.020
[Photographic postcard] Stampeders – off for Ruby. Lomen [passengers and cargo in flat-bottomed riverboat, flume visible emptying into river on opposite bank]
Collection: B2013.007
B1974.040.009
Unloading off Army cargo at Seward, 1940, Alaska RR dock [automobile being hoisted off Alaska Steamship Co. ship, soldiers in uniform on decks]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection
B1979.002.4892
(Cronin #25 )(Pete Smith vending water with steam boiler following day he picked up honey cans)( 1918){horse and carriage loaded with cargo}
Keywords: buisness, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2022.005.247
[one woman in a western style coat facing the camera. One man is looking at the camera from behind her. There are packs or cargo against the side of the building in the background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.1495
S65 Patroling Alaskan wilderness, Army Scouts [snow, service men in tracked vehicle, possibly armored M29 Weasel cargo carrier; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.084a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [winter scene; mushers with sled dog teams, sleds, cargo; snow; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.533
D31 Arctic Alaska "Eskimo dog team on Kotzebue Sound" [three people wearing parkas, sled with cargo, sastrugi, wind-blown snow, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.084b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: winter scene; mushers with sled dog teams, sleds, cargo; snow' hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.085a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [winter scene; mushers with sled dog teams, sleds, cargo; snow; men, women, children;hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1974.040.006
Unloading cargo from U.S. Army transports and Alaska SS vessels, Alaska Railroad dock at Seward, 1940. Robert Liese (later became CAA communicator) and Quartermaster Corps civilian cargo inspector, summer of 1940 [two men standing with wooden barrels and piled supplies in front of flatbed rail cars loaded with heavy equipment, ship visible in background left]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection
B1979.002.Album1.264
M-6. Leaving for Knik. W. F. Milliken [barge U.S. Cargo Lighter No. 22 loaded with supplies and men, on mudflats at mouth of Ship Creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.1761
(T79 Ketchikan, Alaska, steamship "Alaska") [ship at dock, people at gangplank "Alaska SS Co (Alaska Steamship Company," automobiles on dock and on ship deck; cargo gear; town, structures in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.085b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: winter scene; mushers with sled dog teams, sleds, cargo; snow; men, women, children; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
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
B2017.024.1120
Aug61P Barrow [exterior view of man holding briefcase talking with woman holding paper and wearing mukluks; fish or meat hanging on drying rack; structures in background; possibly a cargo sled and boat at left, toys on ground, shovel; steel drums (containers) lining road]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Fish, Meat, Drying racks
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.1759
(T79 Ketchikan, alaska, steamship "Alaska" at Ketchikan) [ship at dock; men wearing caps at rail near bow, automobiles on deck, cargo gear, waterfront structures including Hotel Ingersoll, Ketchikan cold Storage, men in foreground, likely on another ship; structures, including homes, in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.029a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print photograph:] “Ten years ago 1200 reindeer were imported to Alaska. These have reproduced until now the herds number 65,000. In 10 more years there will be several million reindeer in the territory and the industry will provide a living for 100,000 people in the coldest part of Alaska.” [winter scene: reindeer harnessed to sleds; cargo bag; people; parkas; trees; snow; mountains in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.029b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print photograph:] [verso of slide] “Ten years ago 1200 reindeer were imported to Alaska. These have reproduced until now the herds number 65,000. In 10 more years there will be several million reindeer in the territory and the industry will provide a living for 100,000 people in the coldest part of Alaska.” [winter scene: reindeer harnessed to sleds; cargo bag; people; parkas; trees; snow; mountains in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023