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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 95,655 items scanned and searchable online.
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B2015.008.631c
154.9 How can we get up? 12050ft 43012[9] 45am[proof print 2 copies]
Keywords: mountain climbing, mountaineer, Mt Blackburn
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.174.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2009.014.1
"U.S. Revenue Cutter Manning at Kodiak during Katmay Volcano eruption, cleaning the deck of ashes."
Collection: B2009.014
B1989.016.2077.7
40 (Fur Rendezvous, Last Day of Big Races, 1954) [musher with bib #3 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators in front of City Hall]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Pol.12.86.1a
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Pol
B1984.077.5.010
Fairbanks [railroad car on tracks, building next to railroad tracks, building in left background]
Collection: B1984.077
B2015.017.009
[scenic of tundra in summer, church and graveyard in distance at right, possibly Eek Moravian Church]
Collection: B2015.017
B1962.001A.256
Valdez, Alaska. Alaska, Valdes. Entrance to a house in Valdez, Alaska [Houses and buildings; People; P.S. Hunt, photographer]
Keywords: Valdez, Houses, Buildings, Winter, Snowbanks, Snow berms
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.5.AKNative.44.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.ANC.5.85
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B2017.011.20
Alaska ’48 (H) – Brooks, Larry with river mackinaw [man standing in river holding lake trout on line]
Collection: B2017.011
B1990.014.5.P.2.21.67
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1989.016.2057.9
Merry Christmas [Christmas card mat with sketch of winter creek and crescent moon, with painting of winter creek, probably Sydney Laurence. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.964c
Photo by E.F. Foley, N.Y. Who went to Alaska in 1914 explore and map the sources of
the Harvard and Bryn Mawr Glaciers in an unexplored part of the Chugach Mts., above College
Fjord, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Miss Keen is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. In 1912
she made the 1st ascent of Mt. Blackburn, Alaska, 16,140 ft., in an expedition that required 33
days on ice and snow, and is the only sub-Arctic exploration ever organized and led by a
woman. A surveyor will be of the party this time. The Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp,
Belgium, had invited Miss [studio portrait of Dora]
Keywords: woman
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1428
No. 93. Hubbard Expedition, Bering Sea. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [float plane tied on beach at sunset]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Logging.2.36
(Ketchikan Pulp Company Thorne Bay)(4932)(July 1966)( Ketchikan Pulp Co.)(new shovel 38-8 lifts log at spur at end of road)
Keywords: forestry, logging, lumber, timber
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 2
B1989.016.1672.4
(Near Eklutna) [scenery with trees, mountains, log cabin just visible at left]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2524
"District Engineer Building Personnel; 1958" [interior view; man holding sign "June 30th 49th State"]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.085.1
Fishing boats, Anchorage, taken at Emard's dock, 1946. Photo by Sidney Hamilton.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.90.7
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.AncAir.22.7.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 22
B2016.019.1.13b.03950.34
Snow on pipe [Scenics - Winter], 1984
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Scenics, Winter, Winter Scenics, Snow, Pipes
Collection: B2016.019
B90.14.5.ARR.5.8.33
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 5