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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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B1994.022.929
(Copper River and Northwestern Railway)
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1989.016.1718.2
$500 gold and platinum nuggets. Hewitt's Photo [ore arranged in small pans on platter]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.31.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.25
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, power lines
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1979.002.4921
"8/8/1919 H.H. Berry's wheat field" [sleeve 56; Fairbanks homestead, Tanana Valley, Siberian wheat; two men stand in wheat field, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.444.13
50. Trapper's Cabin. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
b2011.014.232
Woman with strings of fish on stream bank. 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B1962.001A.201
[2 copies. Valdez; Houses and buildings; Docks, piers and wharves]
Keywords: Valdez, Wharves, Docks, Piers, Houses, Buildings
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.5.AKNative.4.24
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.8156.jpg
[Boat building]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B1989.016.1677.2
(Scenes of McKinley Park) [road winding through mountains]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.6971.jpg
Photo by Tom Griffin
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B1990.014.5.TV.083.143.3.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1996.035.10.3.page.4f
[Back of page 5; of folded 5-page mimeographed document, orienting Stanton L. Kirby toAdak, dated February 1946. Very good description of facilities at the time.]
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1990.014.5.AKNative.17.4
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.5314.jpg
[Groundbreaking for Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B1989.016.356.1
Glover's Service Station [1930? Standard Gasoline, Alemite Service]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.835
9th day, 4 P.M. Looking down from the ridge, up which we were now toiling, onto the
glacier that had balked us that morning, at about [circle]. Cracks 25 ft. inside that had kept us
from gaining the ridge direct. 16 [bird’s eye view of glacier with crevasses, Mount Blackburn
expedition, 1911?]
Keywords: glacier, seracs, climbing, mountaineering
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.007.149
[group portrait of Alaska Native family posed next to tent on tundra, elder woman wearing fur parka with walrus tusk gussets, elder man wearing Western style clothing and suspenders, young man wearing Western style clothing, young woman wearing kuspuk with fur trim, child wearing Western style clothing, can of Stanavo fuel on grass at left, laundry on clothesline at right, coffee cup on wooden box, boat on shoreline of water in background]
Keywords: transportation, camps, families, clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2021.002.101
Slides with images of Fleming family members and friends.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection