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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 95,683 items scanned and searchable online.
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Please note, we are actively reviewing and updating our records. There may be language and images that are culturally sensitive or include outdated language that does not reflect the mission and goals of our institution today. We consent to input and recommendations from the public as we work on decolonizing our collections.
B1995.014.33.7
[three men on snowshoes, roped up for traverse, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1970.019.758
Anchorage 1937. [Delaney child, Nancy or Loretta?] 2.75 x 4.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.2.9
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B1990.014.5.StateBattle.2.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.StateBattle
B1998.014.1.2092
W6 Alaskan winter sport "1946 postcard (skiing & ski jump)" [people with skis gathered near ski jump as one person begins sking the run; wooden structures for ski jumping]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.005.129
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B1962.001.0774
“Tram at Bonanza Mine” [identified as early days at Kennicott mine, by patron 6/79; Bonanza Mine; Railroads, Cable; Mountains; Copper mines and mining-Kennicott] [Likely Ahtna Territory]
Keywords: Ahtna Territory, Bonanza Mine, Mines and mining, Copper mines and mining, Kennicott, Railroads, Tram, Cables, Landscape, Mountains
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.1006.1
GZ-101. (Plane, Winter, Golden Zone) [airplane in snowbank]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.14.258
Seward Highway (or Gambell St.), southbound out of Anch at Eastchester, 8-5-62
Keywords: Anchorage, transportation, roads
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5_ANC_14
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.115
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.2043
V1 Matanuska Valley vegetables [copy neg; arangement of produce]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1523.3
[City Transfer Co. delivery truck in front of Anchorage Fruit & Produce Company on Fourth Avenue next to KFQD, 1937?]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.People.14.136.24
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B2022.002.15
Cal Williams when he was President of NAACP Anchorage, 1968 [Cal Williams smoking a cigarette, wearing a dashiki, Condition note: photograph torn near Cal Williams’s lips, handwritten note on back: 1968 President of Anchorage NAACP]
Keywords: Cal Williams, NAACP Anchorage
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B1989.016.2210.62
(Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [two women in parkas, one fur, one printed with fur trim, standing outside, Mrs. Bjornson? in middle, mountains in background]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.11.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1993.020.558
Moose meat [floats from airplane visible; print date Sep 59]
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B90.14.5.ARR.1.135.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1
B1990.014.5.Pol.13.144.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Pol