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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 94,976 items scanned and searchable online.
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B2017.020.060
[Chinese American women and small child walking towards airplane on tarmac at Anchorage International Airport, other airplanes in right background; print date Jul 59]
Collection: B2017.020
B1998.014.1.1692
T56 church at Unalaska [copy neg, view of Holy Ascension Russian Orthodox Church, graveyard, cemetary, structures, domicles, road, fences, shorline, Iliuliuk Bay, automobile]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.P.1.233.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P1
B1989.016.1628.4
(Hewitt's Drug Store, Interior) [with customers at lunch counter at left, displays at right]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2148.4
#4B (Fourth of July Parade, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [bird's eye view of Rotary float with banner "Service Before Self" at Fourth Avenue and F Street in Anchorage passing businesses including Suit Club, M & M Lunch, Don's Beauty Shop, White Top Taxi, The Gitchell]
Keywords: automobiles
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.People.14.12
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1989.016.2052.2
(Star Airlines Calendar picture) [illustration of musher with dog team waving to Star Airlines Beech 17 Staggerwing in flight. copy neg]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.10.9
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [sleds and dog teams on ice]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.People.14.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1990.014.5.People.14.29
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B2015.008.755
336.4. Toby Creek, Chitistone tributary, Alaska. 9.2.16 [scenic of gravel riverbed. Proof
print]
Keywords: Chitistone Valley
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.4848
{large number of women marching along street holding signs}
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.1956.4
(Lu Liston Photo Collection, Ice Blocks, from Bootleggers Cove)[Cook Inlet, Sleeping Lady, as seen from Bootleggers Cove, Anchorage, AK.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.14.31
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.EQ.6.4.15
Anchorage sand and gravel back in biz after 27 March 1964, Quake damage. No Print
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_6
B1995.014.36.4
[truck convoy crossing wooden trestle bridge on road in mountainous area in winter]
Keywords: transportation, roads
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.3135
(River Boat Nenana)(ARR shipyard photo taken from bridge)(the big boat is the Nenana came from Marshall the other one is the Alice, Matanauska, and fish wardens boat in foreground also brages){see 3135b for post card notation}
Keywords: shipping, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.1021.5
GZ-188 (Homes in Golden Zone) [bunkhouse area, Cecil Wells-Bill Greene cabin foreground]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.8251.jpg
[Fish processing plant]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B1989.016.2033.5
(Father Hubbard's trek to Valley of 10,000 Smokes) [man, possibly Hubbard, dipping cup into water hole or creek. Bernard Hubbard expedition, circa 1929]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1994.008.626.slide
(US Senators tour AK)( Stevens Hanson Durkin)(Aug 77)
Keywords: senators, alaska, D2
Collection: B1994.008
B2016.005.081
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B1998.014.1.1242
(O60 Ketchikan, Chief Johnson Totem) [actually, the lower portion of Sun & Raven totem. From image: "Figures reading down: Raven before flood; children of the sun; face of the sun; raven after flood; fish the raven saw; frog"]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2006.023.3847.jpg
Start Iditarod 1975 Anchorage to Nome AtlanticRichfieldCompany
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 3001-3999