ARCHIVES

PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
The Anchorage Museum preserves a collection of more than 500,000 photographs covering a broad range of topics in Alaska's history. About 10,000 of these images can be viewed online in Alaska’s Digital Archive here

MAJOR PHOTO COLLECTIONS INCLUDE:

STEVE MCCUTCHEON COLLECTION (140,000 images) Includes McCutcheon’s professional photographs taken throughout Alaska, from 1940 to the mid-1980s, and his stock color slide files. His collection of historical images include glass lantern slides and gold rush images.

WARD W. WELLS COLLECTION (120,000 images) Comprised of Wells’ stock and commercial work, 1945-1982, and studio portraits 1972-82. Includes 2,000 images of Anaktuvuk Pass, taken 1962-1973.

ALASKA RAILROAD AND ALASKA ENGINEERING COMMISSION (12,000 images) Includes construction photos dating from 1914.

VERN BRICKLEY COLLECTION (12,000 images) From the Katmai eruption in 1912 to the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, Brickley shot photos and purchased others for his photo postcard business, with a large selection of World War II-era views.

REDINGTON FAMILY COLLECTION (10,000 images) Joe Redington Sr.’s slides taken 1948-1995. Includes history of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and dog mushing in Alaska; his 1979 summit of Mt. McKinley; homesteading on Flat Horn Lake; and rescue and reclamation work for the U.S. Army.

LU LISTON COLLECTION (8,000 images) Contains the Hewitt’s Drug Store postcard negatives. Includes images of Southcentral Alaska in the 1930s and 1940s, and portraits taken in the 1930s-60s.

MARTIN FAMILY COLLECTION (2,500 images, drawings, and letters) Stereoviews of the Yup’ik village of Kwigillingok, 1925-1935, taken or collected by teacher and Moravian missionary Augustus Martin.

LOUIS ODSATHER COLLECTION (1,000 images) The official photo albums commissioned by the federal government to document the 1935 establishment of the Matanuska Colony in Palmer.

ETTA JONES COLLECTION (240 images and 2 linear feet of manuscripts) Photographs, letters, and government records pertaining to WWII Japanese prisoner-of-war Etta Jones and her husband, Charles Foster Jones, who were BIA teachers in the Aleutians.

LIST OF COLLECTIONS

B1956.004 - A.C. Mercer Legislature Photograph Album

B1957.002 - CIHS Coghill

B1957.006 - Rufus A. While Lantern Slide Collection

B1957.007 - Russel Hyde Merrill Papers

B1957.008 - CIHS Raleigh

B1959.x.001 - Government Hill Housing Projects

B1961.005 - CIHS Collection

B1962.001 - Crary-Henderson Collection

B1962.006 - CIHS Fairbanks

B1962.007 - CIHS Bowman

B1962.x.011 - Anchorage All American City

B1962.x.013 - Knudsen Aerial Photograph

B1962.x.015 - CIHS U.S. Army Engineer District

B1962.x.022 - CIHS Morgan

B1962.x.023 - Knudsen

B1963.006 - CIHS Clifton-Orah Dee Clark

B1963.016 - Marie Silverman Collection

B1963.018 - Porter Anchorage Photograph

B1963.019 - CIHS Barnet Collection

B1963.021 - CIHS Saindon and Loomis

B1963.025 - Ziegmann Collection

B1963.026 - CIHS Griffin

B1963.028 - CIHS Smith

B1963.029 - Wickersham at Nome

B1963.031 - C.H. Darby Collection

B1963.x.007 - CIHS Scott

B1963.x.011 - CIHS Reeve

B1963.x.014 - CIHS Cremer Collection

B1963.x.015 - CIHS Gastrock

B1964.001 - John Urban Collection

B1964.017 - Herning Potter

B1964.x.002 - Anna M. Crutcher Collection

B1964.x.003 - CIHS Neilsen

B1964.x.006 - CIHS McCutcheon

B1965.002 - CIHS Bowden-Liston

B1965.003 - Wood Cook Inlet Photographs

B1965.004 - Whittington Photographs

B1965.009 - Hermann Collection

B1965.010 - CIHS Reeve

B1965.011 - CIHS Henton

B1965.015 - CIHS Pratt

B1965.018 - Fred Henton Collection

B1965.019 - Passerine

B1966.006 - CIHS Michaelsen

B1966.007 - CIHS Griffin

B1966.010 - CIHS Anderson

B1966.011 - CIHS Parzail

B1966.012 - CIHS Traylor

B1966.017 - CIHS Marston

B1966.019 - CIHS Herr

B1966.020 - CIHS Tovsen

B1967.001 - O.G. Herning Collection

B1967.007 - CIHS McCrady

B1967.013 - CIHS Sundberg

B1967.017 - CIHS Brazil

B1967.019 - CIHS Isaacs

B1967.023 - CIHS Butler

B1967.024 - CIHS Granger

B1967.029 - CIHS Kean

B1967.032 - CIHS Eide

B1968.015 - CIHS Davis

B1968.023 - Rychetnik

B1969.007 - Lemmon

B1969.011 - AHFAM Earthquake Photographs

B1969.015 - Fred Winter Collection

B1969.019 - CIHS Howell

B1969.022 - Levi-Sellin Collection

B1969.026 - City of Anchorage

B1969.034 - CIHS Cole

B1970.009 - CIHS Henton

B1970.015 - Betty Bannon Collection

B1970.016 - Harris Postcards

B1970.022 - Fridley Collection

B1970.027 - Merchant Photographs

B1970.028 - Eide Collection

B1970.031 - Bowden Photograph

B1970.035 - Aleen Fowler Collection

B1970.037 - Virgil Knight Photograph Collection

B1970.039 - Robinson Photograph Collection

B1970.040 - Sgt. William B. Shaffer Collection

B1970.041 - AHFAM McDade

B1970.042 - Schultz / Fellers

B1970.060 - Jane Pender Photograph Collection

B1970.061 - Robert Service Photograph

B1970.062 - Hugh Jones Collection

B1970.067 - Lola Homsher Collection

B1970.073 - Minnesota Historical Collection

B1970.079 - Alaska Command Collection

B1970.080 - ASL Copy Prints Collection

B1970.x.002 - Railroad Photograph Collection

B1971.011 - Ninilchik River, 1953

B1971.012 - Musk-ox Project Photographs

B1971.014 - CIHS Grube Collection

B1971.025 - Halverson Collection

B1971.026 - McBride Collection

B1971.032 - Henton Memorabilia

B1971.033 - Clark Postcards

B1971.034 - Swanson Collection

B1971.036 - Hoyt Photograph

B1971.043 - Laughlin Photograph

B1971.055 - Louis E. Boyen Photographs

B1971.056 - USARAL Photographs

B1971.062 - Eskimo Photographs

B1971.065 - Keathley Collection

B1971.x.005 - Postcards

B1972.008 - Seidl Postcard

B1972.025 - Eide Photographs

B1972.027 - Laurence Tyler Collection

B1972.032 - Dorothy L. Surgenor Collection

B1972.038 - Alice Swanson Collection

B1972.041 - AHFAM McDade

B1972.044 - Watson Collection

B1972.046 - Vernon Humble Collection

B1972.067 - Dorothy Stauter Collection

B1972.070 - Kenneth Metcalf Collection

B1972.080 - Crawford Photographs

B1972.081 - Eide Collection

B1972.088 - Muller Collection

B1973.057 - John Watson Webb

B1973.078 - Panorama

B1974.001 - Martin Collection

B1974.016 - Blote Collection

B1975.090 - Aleutian Campaign

B1975.103 - Bowra Collection

B1975.104 - Dorothy Zappa Collection

B1975.127 - Wrangell Collection

B1975.130 - Worklan Collection

B1975.134.178 - Daguerreotype Collection

B1975.175 - Ickes Collection

B1975.191 - Matanuska Susitna Valley Collection

B1976.031 - Alaska Historical Society collection

B1976.082 - Sidney Hamilton Photograph Collection

B1976.082 - Hamilton Historical Background

B1976.092 - Kern Collection

B1976.194 - Muybridge Photographs

B1977.098 - Ohly Collection

B1977.105 - AHFAM Lane

B1977.107 - AHFAM Roe

B1977.147 - ARR Sutton Collection

B1977.150 - Hilbey Photographs

B1977.155 - Kirschbaum Photographs

B1978.065 - AHFAM Phillips

B1978.075 - Carroll Collection

B1978.180 - Jesse Lee Home Album

B1980.026 - Eklutna Vocational School Collection

B1980.029 - Latouche Collection

B1980.050 - Roy Barron Collection

B1980.108 - Lockwood Collection

B1981.009 - Wolfe Collection

B1981.020 - Hotchkiss

B1981.164 - Cochran Collection

B1982.052 - Robert Wheatley Collection

B1983.103 - Grammer Roderick Collection

B1984.055 - George Sullivan photographs

B1985.027 - Wien Collection

B1986.004 - Odsather Collection

B1986.008 - Fred Dohrman

B1987.050 - Clarence Leroy Andrews Collection

B1987.072 - William Robert Mathewson Collection

B1988.012 - Morgan C. Edmunds Collection

B1988.057 - Territorial Legislature (Snodgrass)

B1989.016 - Lu Liston Collection

B1989.024 - Jasper Wyman Collection

B1989.031 - Sheppard and Donnelly Papers

B1989.031 - John V. Pulling Collection

B1990.003 - Alyce E. Anderson Photographs

B1990.014 - Steve McCutcheon Collection

B1991.025 - Burchett Collection

B1991.030 - Castner Collection

B1991.048 - Dr. H.E. Auringer Collection

B1992.003 - Earl Malcolm Hennen

B1992.008 - Clyde King Collection

B1992.032 - Nye-Rhodes Photograph Collection

B1993.017 - William Hoover Collection

B1993.018 - Lamp Collection v

B1993.019 - Liebel Collection

B1994.003 - Nellie Brown Collection

B1994.009 - Frances Ray Collection

B1994.018 - Scotty Allan Collection

B1994.022 - Hoyt Family Collection

B1995.006 - Faucett Collection

B1995.014 - Eugene Tetinek Collection

B1995.014 - Eugene Tetinek Collection Finding Aid

B1995.018 - Joseph & Margaret Lingo Collection

B1995.019 - John D. (Jack) Urban Collection

B1995.024 - Bruce Dunkle Collection

B1995.025 - Jessie Noble Collection

B1995.027 - Anchorage Times Iditarod Collection

B1996.008 - Paul Roseland Collection

B1996.009 - McBride Collection

B1996.011 - Dr. Edward A. Dunlap Collection

B1996.029 - Pioneers of Alaska

B1997.017 - Bernadine L. Prince Collection

B1997.022 - August Cohn Collection

B1997.032 - Henry B. Collins

B1998.003 - Adolphus Greely

B1998.009 - Patricia McDonald Collection

B1998.017 - Carl C. (Dick) Tousley

B1998.022 - Reich Collection

B1998.024 - John Clymer Collection

B1998.025 - Candace Waugaman Collection

B1999.014 - Hilscher Collection

B2000.012 - Hazel M. Davies Collection

B2001.012 - Carter Collection

B2001.014 - Fireoved Collection

B2001.022 - Walter Meyers Collection

B2001.023 - Eklutna Vocational School Northern Lights

B2001.034 - Cecile K. Richter Collection

B2001.035 - M/V Health Collection

B2001.038 - Nathan L. Smith Photographs

B2001.041 - O.D. Goetze Collection

B2001.042 - Hammers Collection

B2002.004 - Glenn Expedition Photographs

B2002.011 - Tisdel White Mountain Government School Collection

B2002.016 - Albert G. Miller Photographs

B2002.020 - Henrietta "Pen" Lee Collection

B2003.021 - Neilson Collection

B2003.022 - Von Der Heydt Collection

B2004.009 - Lido Hotel and Café Ledger

B2004.014 - Dorothy Tigner Collection

B2004.018 - Nobel Webb Collection

B2004.020 - John Ransum Photographs

B2005.006 - Richard Huff Photographs

B2005.010 - Kenneth Hillman Photograph Collection

B2005.017 - Joan C. Ray Collection

B2005.018 - Nielsen Collection

B2005.023 - Lloyd E. Brewer Photographs

B2005.027 - Victoria Gill Photographs

B2005.032 - Allan Rennie Collection

B2005.041 - Norman Campbell Photographs

B2005.042 - Edward Shanley Addison Photographs

B2006.001 - Mary Jane Sausser Collection

B2006.007 - McClanahan Stereoviews

B2006.012 - Henry G. Bryant Album

B2007.005 - Martin Family Collection

B2007.008 - Dewey and Delena Hardy Collection

B2007.016 - Christenson Slide Collection

B2008.004 - Bjorkman Collection

B2008.008 - William M. Svensson Collection

B2008.014 - Abbie Morgan Madenwald Collection

B2008.015 - Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher Papers

B2008.022 - Jimmy H. Long Collection

B2008.028 - Nome Photograph Collection

B2008.037 - Parisi Collection

B2010.020 - Johnny Sartor Collection

B2011.001 - S.R. Nettleton Collection

B2011.002 - Langford-Ose Photograph Collection

B2011.003 - Alaska Twins Portrait Photograph

B2011.004 - Arthur Watrous Photograph

B2011.005 - Norman Kozberg Photograph Album

B2011.006 - Charley Crowley Alaska Territorial Guard certificate

B2011.007 - Etta Jones Collection

B2011.009 - William Zeddies, Sr., Slides

B2011.012 - John Rupp Collection

B2011.013 - Percy Wetherbee Photographs

BL79.2 and BL04.1 - Alaska Railroad

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