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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.
Anchorage Museum Archive Image Search
The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
on Alaska and the Circumpolar North, with 95,683 items scanned and searchable online.
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B1998.014.1.639
E55 Anchorage Fur Rohdezvous, Eskimo blanket-toss "City Hall, 1950" [same as .640, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.People.14.136.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.5.Science.16.37
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Science
B1989.016.2057.12
Alaska, Season's Greetings (Christmas Cards 1936-37) [Christmas card mat with sketch of moose and holly leaves, with photograph captioned "P-407 Knik Glacier, Anchorage, Alaska, Hewitt's Photo Shop." copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1308
O90 Alaskan children earning extra money gatering ice worms, popular bait for fur fishing. Ice worms are righ in hair raising vitamins. [copy neg; same as .1307; printed in reverse]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.MartinCarl.1
(Martin Carl Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.1
anchorage buisness district demolition
Keywords: aerial, buildings, damaged buildings, streets, cars
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.5.AKNative.5.12
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.16.40.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.6341.jpg
Joe Redington Sr. with lead dog.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1998.014.1.158
A62 Fake beaver, Cliff Yoiung's; caption: A "Texas beaver" what fought its way clear to Faribanks and then met his water-Lu"
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2213
(Sydney Laurence, McKinley with eagle, 1920 per Jones) [photograph of painting. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.1.42
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.6.37
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 6
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.153
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: building exterior
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1980.027.09
Homer, Alaska. Homer Spit in the spring of 1965 showing the new small boat basin and city dock under construction (March 1965).
Collection: B1980.027 Woodman Photograph Collection
B1989.016.1130.3
[Juneau Lumber Mills, with lumber pile in foreground, warehouse in background with two men on roof]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.7.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.2.23
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.24.82
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1467.2
31. 73 1/4" moose spread, Kenai Peninsula. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [man standing next to walled tent, holding up moose antlers]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection