JP Goforth wrote, "Emmanuel, are you saying Pat Dougherty sent the paper's morgue to this Rogers outfit and that it was never digitized and sent back??"
Yes, JP, the photographic archives were sent out of state, by McClatchy, to be digitized and have not been returned to the paper.  I believe McClatchy was pursuing Rogers (or his company) but then the paper was sold to Rogoff.  I believe there was a settlement imposed by a judge, and there may have been storage fees for the archives that accumulated while the matter was in court that needed to be paid. To my knowledge the Anchorage Daily News Archive, which includes the Anchorage Times Archive (since the Times was acquired by ADN), has not been returned to Alaska.  I have tried to interest other news outlets in the story but they all backed down, I have complained to ADN and they don't want to talk about it.  It really is a shame because the ADN Archive is probably the single most comprehensive photographic history of post-war Alaska.