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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.
B1998.003.030
831(Valdez Telegraph Office)[three men and a dog standing outside telegraph office in Valdez]
Keywords: telegraph, communication
Collection: B1998.003
B1984.077.6.010
[railroad tracks, rail cars, buildings, telegraph poles? Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2000.014.263
(263)(Birches Telegraph Station as seen from the steamer Sarah, July 3 1914)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1984.077.2.030
[portable boiler? man in foliage, survey marker or telegraph tripod? neg. is detriorated]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.3.018
(outdoor scene, surveyor or telegraph poles? buildings in middle ground, mountain in background]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.4.024
[two-story cabin, external staircase, telegraph poles? small caings in background]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.5.032
Deluxe rooms [street scene, bulidings, car, dirt road, telegraph poles?]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.4.028
Nenana ice pool $85,000 [cabin, porch, wash tub, fence, telegraph poles? in distance]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.5.008
Fairbanks [depot, railroad tracks, bridge in distance, rail cars in right foreground, telegraph? poles]
Collection: B1984.077
B1964.001.634
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Green, Broad Pass.[Mr. and Mrs. William Greene standing in front of telegraph office at Broad Pass. Mrs. Greene was the only female telegraph operator in Alaska at the time. Photo was taken just after President Harding's death (note the flag at half mast). Signson building read: "American Railway Express" and "Telegraph -Telephone." 1923.]
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B1984.077.5.001
Fairbanks [street scene, Thrifty Market, pedestrian talking with person in pickup truck, person crossing street, telegraph? lines]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.5.002
Fairbanks [street scene, telegraph pole? market, pickup truck in lower left corner, man in street, buildings in distance]
Collection: B1984.077
B1983.146.152
[pedestrians walking up rise on dirt road leading from Ship Creek area, telegraph poles, large wooden building in distance]
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B1979.002.1456
[Anchorage. Federal jail, Telegraph & Telephone building & post office. Circa 1918] 8 x 10 nitrate negative
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1962.001A.131
Chestochena Rail station, Valdez-Eagle Trail. P.S. Hunt, E120 [Chistochina; Telegraph Office] [Ahtna Territory, Tsiis Tl'edze' Caegge (Chistochina]
Keywords: Ahtna, Territory, Tsiis Tl'edze' Caegge, Chistochina, Indigenous, BIPOC, P.S. Hunt, Alaska, Alaskan, Chestochena, Rail station, Railroad, Veldez Eagle, Trail, Clearing, Log building, Building, Cabin, Mountain, Man
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1998.003.026
(555 Camp Comfort near Keystone Telegraph Office 1902)[9 men on and off horseback gathered around a log cabin with two women greeting two men]
Keywords: cabin, horse, dogs
Collection: B1998.003
B1989.016.1068
Signal Corps, Palmer. P-264, Hewitt's Photo Shop [walled tent with sign Alaska Telegraph System, Signal Corps, U.S. Army, Telegrams Accepted]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album1.62
Rock filled breakwater. Eugene Underwood [logs and rocks stacked along shoreline, telegraph lines and utility pole behind, mountains in background, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, communication
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2004.011.Hoffman.jail
[Anchorage, circa 1916, men laying wooden sidewalk or boardwalk outside U.S. Marshal's Office and federal jail on Third Avenue, Telephone & Telegraph building at left]
Collection: B2004.011 Bagoy
B1994.009.997
Neklasson Lake 11/56. Antenna erection, assembling the structural stell support for 60 FPTs antenna. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., photog. R & M copy 3291.
Keywords: Cold War, communications
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B1989.016.2143.7
14. Matanuska R.R. Depot. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [passengers and luggage cart on platform at Alaska Railroad station in Palmer, with sign for "Telegraph and Telephone." emulsion missing in lower right corner]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.003.stoddard.22a
Dayton W. Stoddard in front of City Hall where he held office as City Clerk from 1925 to 1933 [man standing next to snowbanks in front of Telephone and Telegraph building on Third Avenue, Anchorage. From Legends & Legacies by Bagoy]
Collection: B2000.003
B1972.046.186
[bird’s eye view of railroad station, several passengers standing on snowy platform, train at right, possibly snowplow on tracks in distance, sign at left for W.P. & Y. Telegraph Office, White Pass & Yukon Route]
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B1989.016.2143.36
76. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Alaska [man loading supplies into wagon being pulled by horse team, woman and child sitting in wagon, another man looking on, outside building with sign for The Alaska Telegraph System, Signal Corps U.S. Army]
Keywords: communications, transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.3.1839
No. 79. Mrs. Wm. Greene, Broad Pass (only woman telegraph operator in Alaska). Original depot. Picture taken in 1923 just after Harding's death, note flag at half mast. Worked at Broad Pass 11/1921 to 8/1925. Worked on ARR 4/11/21 to 4/30/41, rehired 1/4/43 to 3/22/44. Retired as Agent at Healy, 4/30/41. 5 x 7 neg
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1967.013.44
5 1/4" x 3 1/4" post card entitled Flat City Alaska showing a frontier town
Keywords: telegraph poles, pedestrians, horses, wagons, boardwalk, frontier, tarps, american flag, store fronts, log cabin
Collection: B1967.013 CIHS Sundberg