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The Anchorage Museum library includes books, maps, and print resources focused on Alaska and the Circumpolar North. The public is welcome to access the collection and conduct research on-site during open hours, or by appointment.
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.
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The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
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B1995.014.3.7
[two men with surveying equipment standing outside next to lighthouse or tower on sea coast]
Keywords: navigation, mapping
Collection: B1995.014
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.5.55
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 5
B1990.014.2018.1.207.001
65-6; Taken from car at Duvall [street scene including businesses: Harris Garage, Texaco; grocery; Board & Room; Coca-Cola sign; Washington, March 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1983.091.S1564.B30
(Nunivak Island Trip native people children receiving candy)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2006.023.6270.jpg
Galena. Copyright Jeff Schultz
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1965.018.040
Circle City, Alaska, taken at midnight 1901 on Yukon River, June 21-01 [men, women, dogs outside Alaska Commercial Co, McQuesten & Co, Post office and drug store, log building, boardwalk]
Collection: B1965.018 Fred Henton
B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus.31.226
Anchorage -Business-Hotels-Capt. Cook Hotel 10-13-64 Capt Cook Hotel
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Bus
B1990.014.2018.1.84.001
30-2; Repacking scene [two men work with salmon filets; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2022.002.37
Cal Williams with godson, Joseph Snyder, 2005
Keywords: Cal Williams, Joseph Snyder
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2006.023.5899.jpg
[Sunset, Mt. Susitna]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B1989.016.1146.36
(Building Federal Building, Inside Construction, Aug. 21, 1940) [view of construction site of new federal building on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, showing interior of courtroom]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1962.001A.257
Windstorm on the Valdez mountains. P.S. Hunt, G3121 [Houses and buildings]
Keywords: Valdez, Houses, Buildings, Winter, Snowbanks, Snow berms, Windstorms, Storms
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1962.001A.118
#222. Crossing the Taslina River, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E278 [Tazlina River; Transportation – Horses]
Keywords: Tazlina River, Rivers, Crossings, Horses, Animals, Livestock, Transportation, Tents, Boats and boating, Camps and camping
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.5.StateBattle.8.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.StateBattle
B1979.002.4945
8/22/1919, harvesting Hulles barley, field B; clover in foreground" [sleeve 81; horses pulling harvest exupment, agriculture, implements, man with horses, man sitting on equipment]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.EQ.16.71
Hill Building Facade
Keywords: cars, pedestrians, construction workers
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_16
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.9b
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.1522
S 87 School at Fort Richardson [playground equipment: slide, seesaws, swings, possibly monkey bars; barrel, benches, bicycles; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley