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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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B1994.022.392A
(Aeronautics_Disaster)(Owen Meals crash at Gakona 1928)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1990.014.004.01051
Tug strugles in heavy ice north of forelands in Cooks Inlet; ice 48 to 60" heavy wind makes much trouble. Photographer's number: 01051.
Keywords: transportation, ships, ice, winter
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.5.P.27.47.38
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P27
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.1.63
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 1
B1979.002.4916a
"8/6/1919 Canadian oats & visitors; Chatnika bunch" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 49; four people standing in oat field; two men; two women; hats; agriculture, trees in backgroud]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.272
B48 Copper Center Trading Post [two women at counter, one holding Lipton Tea package, pencil. two dogs, scale, groceries, barrel stove, produce; Reliance Coffee on counter, Armour's Hennery Eggs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.19.005
5-3 Ferdinand in show window [ceramic bulls in store window; flowers in wicker basket; 1939?; possibly Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.P.28.7.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P28
B1983.091.S4827.11
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 5/70 [boy and girl fixing tires on bicycle]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.19.8b
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.15.50
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.EQ.24.3.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_24
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.69.18B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.2018.1.91.003
34-1; Dec. 1939; Plus X - 40-24; Dev in DK 20-14 min @ 70°F; Road at Am. Legion cabin [ people walking along gravel road; cabin to left of road; fog in distance; likely near Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B90.14.5.ARR.1.87b
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1989.016.2100
D-77 [cabin buried in snow drift]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1776
T94 The starting point over the Alaska Hiway (Dowson Creek, Britsh Columbia, Mile "0") [sign in street: "Dawson Creek; Ft. St. John 49; Ft. Nelson 300; Whitehorse 918; Fairbanks 1523; Mile '0' Alaska Hi-way, Junior Chamber of Commerce" businesses and street in background
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2014.003.7
13803(glacier)(Victor Animatograph Co.)[color lantern slide mountainous terrain and glacial terminous as seen from across a bay or large river destination unknown]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2014.003
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.22
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1962.001A.138
Copper River Natives, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E283 [verso:] Horse Creek Mary (father was Russian) [studio portrait of two Ahtna men and one woman. Ahtena Indians] [Indigenous Alaskans, likely Ahtna. Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Ahtena, Indigenous, Man, Woman, Portrait, Studio, Copper River, Atna, BIPOC, Russian, Horse Creek Mary, P.S. Hunt
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1979.002.4681
"Curing oat hay on 'Swedes'" [sleeve 15, Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, circa 1918, agriculture, wood posts, fields, storage, hay stacks, root vegetable, hedgerow]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.AKNative.24.60.7B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative