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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 94,942 items scanned and searchable online.
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B2015.007.97
[elder woman and young Alaska Native woman, both wearing cloth parkas with fur trim, posed outside log cabin]
Keywords: clothing, residences
Collection: B2015.007
B1989.016.FiskanHugo.1
[Fiskan Hugo Passport Photos 1934-35]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.2018.1.33.003
14-2 Indian on dock at Saxman [man standing on pier; boats; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1743
(T73 Cordova, Alaska; Cordova Main Street) [street scene, automobile supported by a jack and with open trunk parked in front of liquor store missing tire; businesses, store fronts, Cafe, Alaskan Hotel, Card Room, Cordova Hotel, Lutheran Mission, Liquor Store, Pop's Taxi, Cordova Steam Laundry, Cordova Studio - Developing and Printing; children riding bicycles; people walking on boardwalks; man in doorway of liquor store; woman walking at far right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2035.6
(Monument, Anchorage-Palmer Highway) [man wearing three-piece suit and fedora with woman, presumably from the Daughters of the American Revolution, standing next to stone marker]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.715.4
[American Pilgrim airplane crash landed on beach near Anchorage, Cook Inlet, pilot Harold Gillam]
Keywords: aviation, aircraft accidents
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album1.155
R19-4. Mts. Drum and Sandford [view across open area to mountains in distance, possibly taken from Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B90.14.5.ARR.1.155
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1990.014.5.EQ.7.22
Men Cordova Bldg.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_7
AEC.G1826
Middle Fork of Chulitna River Crossing Mile 307 June 22-1921 {railroad construction}
Keywords: railroad, transportation, construction
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1990.014.5.Anc.Sch.1.94
(Anchorage Schools Wendler Jr HI)(Oct 17 1960)(10093)
Keywords: education, students, school
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Anc_Schools
b2009.057.21
[Anchorage. Procession, with automobile. Parade or funeral?] 3.5 x 5.5 nitrate negative.
Collection: B2009.057 Pyatt
B2015.008.1307.t28crop
T28 [climber carrying backpack and pick standing on glacier, crevasses in foreground.
cf. .1311]
Keywords: glacier, crevasse, mountaineering, mountain
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.TV.166.58.7.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.21.15
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B2006.023.5716
[Muktuk Narston? with unidentified people next to truck with Iditarod sign. Possibly at State Fair.]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2017.024.3258
[Nome, mushing, two men working with sled dog team, spectators]
Collection: B2017.024
B1980.062.003
Canneries. Feeding fish into an iron chink.
Collection: B1980.062 Dane Photograph Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.19.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative