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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 93,409 items scanned and searchable online.
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B1989.016.1672.1
(Near Eklutna) [gravel road with trees]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1980.092.076
(Alaska Airlines)(Oscar Winchell"True Cowboy")( NC211W)(Stinson)
Collection: B1980.092 June Bender Collection
B90.14.5.ARR.2.126
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1990.014.5.AKNative.34.10
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.4564a.jpg
[Hoffmans and Redingtons eating outdoors]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B1998.014.1.1108
(O4 Dog sled garage; 1946 postcard) [copy neg; dog sleds stored inside structure]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.20.27
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.38.55
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.450.16
Independence Mine. #21, Hewitt's Photo Shop.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.5.003
Mother [woman sitting on sofa; light at left; 1939?; overexposed]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.014.108.1
[water plant in gravel pit at mining operation, drag line bucket at left]
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.100.006
37-3 Exteriors at 1055 Stedman St. [Ketchikan; January 1940; view of Union Oil Company; structures; docks; Tongass Narrows, Pennock Island, and mountains in distance; likely views from roadway in front of Stedman Street domicile]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.19.20a
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.2228
"Bromide, Big Halibut" [fish hung at rail of likely a pier or dock]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2281.3.1
(Alyeska Olympic National Ski event, April 5, 1963. Section 4)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.233.003
72-2 [Sitka; August 1941; view of St. Michael Cathedral, Russian Orthodox Church through trees]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B90.14.5.Logging.1.3.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B2015.008.232
2 3 9525 Port Wells Alaska Home stake mine Harriman Fjord
Keywords: Chugach, College fjord, Prince William Sound, Port Wells, glacier, mountains
Collection: B2015.008