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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.
B2014.019.493
726. Juneau. Photo by E. Wolf [two Alaska Native girls posed on sled frame, dog in harness on grass, lake in background, summer]
Keywords: transportation, animals, children
Collection: B2014.019
B1990.014.2018.1.236.001
[72-5; Sitka, August 1941; waterfront scene; view of Sitka from across water, taken from rocky beach; pilings]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2022.005.34
[Two Indigenous Alaskan men pulling sled; buildings in background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Men, Pulling, Sled, Dogsled, Transportation, Winter, Snow, Buildings, Structures, Western clothing, Mukluks, Outerwear
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.1498
S68 A trapped eagle, "Don't let it happen to you." [eagle with burlap, rope; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2007.005.5.117
[stereo views; interior view of family inside wood structure, woman, two children; woven grass basket in foreground; woven mats; woven bag next to child; lantern at left; bowls on floor at left]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1995.014.119.6
Adak, on Sunday the Army would take men fishing [soldiers lowering small boat from ship deck]
Keywords: boats, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.11.15
Winter fishing [Russian Mission]. Fish traps were put out just before Christmas. They celebrated Russian Christmas which is on January 7th. [piled fish and sticks from traps on ice, hills in distance]
Keywords: ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.643
Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, Eskimo blanket toss "E57 Diomede Eskimos at Anchorage, 1950 [actually, after 1952, the year the Mt. McKinley Building in center background was built]" [group of people in snowy ball field, fences with signs: Polar Bar-r, Arctic Office Machine Co., Northern Neon Corp, Al Fox's D and D Sport Center, Union Oil Company Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cherolet, Cadillc, GMC trucks, Murmac Louinge, City Bank, Anchorage Realty Co., Sicks' Select Beer, Rainier Beer, Silver Dollar Loan Co, Scoreboard, structures, Alaska Neon building, domiciles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.232
Wild currants picked by Colonists in Matanuska Valley. Hewitt's Photo Shop, P-294.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.003.105
Breakup [scenic of water filled with ice chunks. Double exposure]
Collection: B2019.003
B1995.010.736
[field of lupine at Anchorage Cemetery, with grave markers and Dena’ina spirit house, houses in background. Cf. .361]
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.011.53
Alaska ’48 – Coville Lake, Bud Branham in heaven [Bud Branham posed with fishing rod]
Collection: B2017.011
B2018.023.073a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print: “Copper mine on Latouche Island, in Prince William Sound, where a mountain of low grade ore is being worked by the Guggenheims.” View of shoreline with piers, structures, skiff in foreground; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.2018.1.69.003
26-2 Fish dock scene [men working with salmon at dock; ice; view from inside structure with filigree decoration at entrance; tote in foreground; likely Ketchikan, 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.69.003
26-2 Fish dock scene [men working with salmon at dock; ice; view from inside structure with filigree decoration at entrance; tote in foreground; likely Ketchikan, 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2018.023.073b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print: “Copper mine on Latouche Island, in Prince William Sound, where a mountain of low grade ore is being worked by the Guggenheims.” verso of slide: View of shoreline with piers, structures, skiff in foreground; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.594
E28 Eskimo dance, photo by Frank Morgan "1948 postcard [same as .592, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1369
(PT5 Nome) [aerial view; water in foreground, harbor, beach, structures, roads, landing strip; hills in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley