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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.
B1971.065.33
Two Eskimos in kyak. Postcard. Mold damage. Discarded after scanning.
Collection: B1971.065 Keathley
B2017.024.2087
King Island, copyright 1986 [Scene at hunting camp; people eating, sitting under umiak, supplies, guns]
Collection: B2017.024
B2001.014.364
{Wonder Park Subdivision Properties and Residents}
Keywords: Wonder Park, subdivision, homes
Collection: B2001.014
B2017.024.2089
King Island, copyright 1986 [wooden umiaks loaded with walrus; tusks; hunters; women, children, supplies; sea ice, open water]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2094
King Island, copyright 1986 [man wearing grey sweatshirt and blue cap]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2171
King Island, copyright 1986 [woman wearing parka uses ulu to prepare walrus; tusks to right; people and supplies on snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2072
King Island, copyright 1986 [people in boat, likely an umiak, with boxes, suitcases, food; man reclining smoking pipe with camera case around his neck; women wearing parkas sit atop oil drum; water, ice]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2096
King Island, copyright 1986 [man wearing blue cap, smoking cigarette]
Collection: B2017.024
B2001.014.365
{Wonder Park Subdivision Properties and Residents}
Keywords: Wonder Park, subdivision, homes
Collection: B2001.014
B2014.016.1911
McGrath. NCA SeaBee, Charlie, Ray Peterson, Vern Maxfield [Northern Consolidated Airlines SeaBee on tarmac, Northern Commercial Company store in background]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B2014.016
B2016.010.236
A new totem, museum at Prince Rupert [two carvers working on pole outside Visitor Information Centre. 1975]
Keywords: indigenous peoples, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2016.010
B2016.010.28
Grizley bear [brown bear on tundra, Denali National Park and Preserve]
Collection: B2016.010
B2016.010.362
[aerial of lake and residential area, possibly Anchorage; print date Sep 78]
Collection: B2016.010
B2017.024.2056
King Island, copyright 1986 [men and women sit on bare ground, possibly eating, outside abondoned structures]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2081
King Island, copyright 1986 [man handline walrus tusks and skull]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2083
King Island, copyright 1986 [person wearing eyeglasses, Nome Nanooks hat and waders eating possibly walrus (?), holding knife in hand in umiak; radio at lower left]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2088
King Island, copyright 1986 [close-up of man wearing eyeglasses, cap]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2090
King Island, copyright 1986 [close up of man looking through binoculars]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2092
King Island, copyright 1986 [close up of man wearing eyeglasses and cap]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2095
King Island, copyright 1986 [men, hunters, hauling umiak across snow; motor]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2097
King Island, copyright 1986 [man wearing blue cap and gray sweatshirt]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2176
Prop. of Van Cleve Photography; Evanston, IL "Village women; Kind Island" [women and children on wood deck; skins streched on wood railing; clothesline; structure in backgroud; mountain in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2187.4
Copyright 1903. Lomen Bros. Nome #13 [four Native women in fur parkas, mukluks and printed skirts on beach near boats. Parkas are Bering Sea or Norton Sound style. copy neg]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.016.1905
Kotzebue, Wien plane on town airport [Wien airplane tail number NC4734M on airstrip, second Wien airplane in background]
Collection: B2014.016
B1983.091.S2060.16
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [two small airplanes on skis at Merrill Field, one with tail number N8725D upside down, control tower and hangar with signs for Piper, Safeway, and Union 76 in background, Chugach Mountains in distance, winter]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2060.3
Anchorage storm, 1-59 (Wreckage, planes, tanks, signs, etc.) [small bulldozer next to Union 76 gas tanks at tank farm, tank at right toppled due to snow]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S2067.1
Stock 2067 - 1 (6/ /59) (4 negs) Fourth Ave. street scene, intersection at F St. (Looking east) (Wells' choice) [1959 street scene with Anchorage Fur Rendezvous and All-American City banners over street]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.444.9
Army Team on Yukon. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. [man and dog team on frozen river]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.574
E13 Eskimo Girls, King Island "Hilcher's shot, 1941" [Hilscher, four girls wearing kuspuks with fur trim; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2014
Kenai Peninsula, April 1969 [aerial scene of cabins, caches, boats along lake shore, snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2071
King Island, copyright 1986 [woman making coffee in kettle on Coleman Stove; Hills Bros; Lipton Tea box, cups, basin; snow; ice; boat, people in background
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2128
King Island, copyright 1986 [man holds up part of walrus skull with tusks; snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2129
King Island, Alaska "Prop. of Van Cleve Photography, Evanston, Il." [men drag umiak on snow and ice]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2140
King Island, copyright 1986 [close-up of man wearing eyeglasses smoking cigarette]
Collection: B2017.024
B2001.014.2.119
{Wonder Park Subdivision Properties and Residents}
Keywords: Wonder Park, subdivision, homes
Collection: B2001.014
B2001.014.367
{Wonder Park Subdivision Properties and Residents}
Keywords: Wonder Park, subdivision, homes
Collection: B2001.014
B2016.006.1834
Nome [five Alaska Native children standing next to building; 1950s]
Collection: B2016.006
B2017.024.2069
King Island, copyright 1986 [five men, hunters, with guns, binoculars; walruses in foreground; water, snow, ice in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2109
King Island, copyright 1986 [men gathered at walrus hunting camp; rifles; umiak being used as shelter]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2119
King Island, copyright 1986 [two men examine a rifle; possibly walrus at right; possibly bookshelf in background; snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2121
King Island, copyright 1986 [woman wearing parka with child in the hood feeds the child banana; supplies arranged on beach; possible structures in background]
Collection: B2017.024