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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.
B1995.014.98.14
[sunrise or sunset over Quonset hut partially bured in snow, Adak]
Keywords: military, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.98.15
[surveyors on military base in winter, buildings and mountains in background, Adak]
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.023.170
(military town)[large encampent situated in the mountains]
Keywords: military, tents
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.171
(military town)[very blurry photograph of a military encampemt situated in the mountains]
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.172
(military town)[large encampent situated in the mountains]
Keywords: military
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.173
(military town)[large encampent situated in the mountains]
Keywords: military, tents
Collection: B2014.023
B2014.023.174
(military town)[large encampent situated in the mountains]
Keywords: military, housing, barracks
Collection: B2014.023
B1995.014.47.13
[flock of birds flying over water, mountains in distance, Adak]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.5.15
[three young Alaska Native children standing outside near fish nets]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.94.5
Army drying fish for dogs [soldiers unloading carts full of processed fish and hanging them on drying rack, building at right, water in distance]
Keywords: fishing, military, animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.EQ.09.3
Anchorage, Oil pipes and earthquake damage dock behind.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_9
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
B1995.014.48.15
[two men surveying on rise overlooking military installation with Quonset huts, dog at right, Adak]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.53.5
Plane crash across Cook Inlet from Anchorage, 1940s [men looking at debris from military airplane crash on tundra]
Keywords: aircraft accidents, aviation
Collection: B1995.014
B2021.004.276
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition. Banner: "Freedome Ain't Free Let's Support The NAACP" [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Banner, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B1973.079.114
[two people dressed in winter parkas seated on boardwalk with snow all around]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.09.4
Anchorage Quake Damage, Dock Busted.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_9
B1995.014.115.9
Abby Stepanoff, Russian Mission [woman wearing headscarf seated inside drying rack cleaning salmon]
Keywords: ethnotechnology, fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.116.1
[five Alaska Native children wearing bib overalls posed on small dock on shore of Yukon River, Russian Mission]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.116.10
[soldiers under review at military base in front of Theater No. 1, one soldier demonstrating with pistol]
Keywords: arms, recreation
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.116.3
[two women wearing headscarves seated on platform inside drying rack cleaning salmon, Russian Mission]
Keywords: fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.116.4
Mrs. Belkoff, Russian Mission [woman wearing headscarf seated inside drying rack cleaning salmon]
Keywords: fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.116.5
[fish drying racks, three young children standing at right, Russian Mission]
Keywords: ethnotechnology, fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B2009.037.002
.2a – [copy negative, Japanese on Attu, man in military vehicle] .2b – [copy negative, Japanese on Attu, some type of artillery shell or other weapon]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B1995.014.31.10
F-E Co. 1942 [crane scooping gravel, Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.31.9
F-E Co. 1942 [wash plant, Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.103.10
[several men standing in sluice box with paddles, possibly cleaning riffles, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1995.014
B2022.005.249
[a group of people in western and Indigenous dress boarding a Wien Alaska Airlines airplane]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Wien Alaska Airlines, airplane
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.59
A/W helicopter Dalton wreckage
Keywords: helicopter, cars, damaged buildings, trucks, power lines, street lights
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.72
1st Fed Bank Penney Building showing EQ damage
Keywords: pedestrians, power lines, cars, collapsed buildings, streets, street signs
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.EQ.08.7
Tree split by cracked earth cause by earthquake.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_8
B1995.014.46.16
[sunrise or sunset over military installation on Adak, with razor wire in foreground]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.49.5
[self portrait of man wearing pajamas lying in bed, Eugene Tetinek?]
Keywords: clothing, photography
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.51.14
[three men carrying surveying equipment walking in snowy field towards military base, Adak]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.87.18
[partially obscured view of airplane on airstrip in winter, low hills in distance]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1995.014