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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 94,934 items scanned and searchable online.
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B2015.008.046
238.2(9_18_14)(10am)(Smith Glacier)
Keywords: Glaciers, College Fiord, mountains, ice bergs
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2136.3
(Francis Bowden and family, Nov. 12, 1955) [studio portrait]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.688.2
Native ivory carver, Eklutna [student at Eklutna Vocational School]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.25.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_25
B2015.025.048
Construction of berth at Alagco dock [seven images, six badly deteriorated]
Collection: B2015.025
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.1.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 1
B1984.077.8.023
[A bear feeds on garbage, trash barrels, stove. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2018.023.060a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “58” “…ld Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Day Creek, Nome, Alaska” [likely Wild Goose Co.; miners at sluice boxes, water, equipment; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2006.023.5428
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Photo Exhibition. Palmer, a pot o' gold. Photo by Wayne Burkhart
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1989.016.2080.41
(Sportscar Race, Fur Rendezvous, Anchorage, 1963) [cars passing Alaska Sales and Service]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2572
"Kenai Highway; Mi 15-17; creek & mts [scenic view of mountains reflected in water, near Seward; speck left of center is stuck to emulsion]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.87.58A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.1003
154. Harvest at Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [two workmen in field filling sacks, with mountains in distance]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B90.14.5.AncAir.18.11
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 18
B2001.041.031crop
No 1092 Wild Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Dry Creek HCK Nome, Alaska {3 sluice runs and two men tending the operation}
Keywords: gold mining
Collection: B2001.041 Goetze
B1989.016.1250.2
Eskimo hauling reindeer meat to market, Nome, Alaska. Lomen Bros., #885. 47. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.143.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.22.94
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.NeeMr.1
(Nee Mr Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos