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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.
B2015.008.593
(Copper River flooded 3 miles 3 feet deep)
Keywords: Copper River, flooding, rail road
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.594
(Copper River flooded 3 miles 3 feet deep)
Keywords: Copper River, rail road
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album15.Loop.Winter
34;The Loop34; Alaska RR-Mile 52- 3 miles by rail - 1/2 mile the way Crows fly - Alaska Shop
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2015.008.827a
From moving train, ice 2 or 3 miles away [view across river to glacier terminus]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.827b
From moving train, ice 2 or 3 miles away [view across river to glacier terminus]
.827b – [same as .827a]
Keywords: glacier, copper river
Collection: B2015.008
AEC.T166
T NO 166 mile 350.2 LN [3 men standing around small rail car outside the opening of a mine shaft]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1957.005.178
Looking north from mile 139, AEC Ry., May 10, 1918. AEC H60 HGK Verso: Alaska Railroad - Anchorage to Matanuska, Birchwood. [mud slides] [3 copies]
Keywords: AEC, A.E.C., Alaskan Engineering Commission, Alaska Railroad, Railroad, Railway, Anchorage, Matanuska, Birchwood, Mile 139, Mud slide, Hillside
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd
B1962.001A.390
Finished grade of Alaska Home Railway looking back one mile to Camp 3, taken from same place as G1643. P.S. Hunt, G1644 [Alaska Home Railroad]
Keywords: Railroads, Wailways, Camps and camping, Trails
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1957.005.203
Mile 3, Chickaloon Branch of gov.t r.road, Oct. 3, 1918. AEC G972 HGK. Verso: Alaska Railroad - Matanuska Branch, Chickaloon [same image as B1970.x.002.36] [Possibly H.G. Kaiser photo. Ahtna Territory, Nay’dini’aa Na’ Kayax (Chickaloon)]
Keywords: Ahtna, Territory, Nay’dini’aa Na’ Kayax, Chickaloon, AEC, A.E.C., Alaskan Engineering Commission, Alaska Railroad, Railroad, Matanuska, Branch, Mile 3, Government, Tracks, H.G. Kaiser
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd
B1979.002.Album1.130
R24-3. C & NW Ry [view of gravel riverbed, probably taken near Miles Glacier from tracks of Copper River & Northwestern Railway, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1957.005.180
Repairing damages caused by glacial mud slides at mile 139 - A.E.C. R[ailwa]y. May 10-1918. AEC H63 HGK Verso: 3 meter north of Birchwood. Alaska Railroad - Anchorage to Matanuska. Birchwood. [construction crew repairing damage to tracks at mile 139 along Turnagain Arm after mud slides] [2 copies]
Keywords: AEC, A.E.C., Alaskan Engineering Commission, Alaska Railroad, Railroad, Railway, Anchorage, Matanuska, Birchwood, Repair, Damage, Glacial, Mud slide, Hill, Hillside, Mile 139, Construction, Crew, Workers, Turnagain Arm, Tracks
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd
B1996.035.10.3.page.7c
Adak Tribune newspaper, February 23, 1946, page 3 of 6 pages. Lead article about a Russian ship, the Donbass, which broke in two and was found 400 miles south of Adak. “Navy search parties have been hampered by bad weather. . .” and Kirby has penciled: “That is me.”
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1989.016.2074.5
2 (Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954) [musher with bib #3 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon, Pacific Northern Airlines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2074.7
3 (Five Mile Race, Fur Rendezvous, 1954) [musher with bib #4 driving team down Fourth Avenue past spectators and businesses including Crocker's, Smart Shop, Lee's Menswear, Ship Creek Market, L. W. Hines Optometrist, J. Vic Brown & Son Jewelers, 515 Club, Lois Beauty Salon, Pacific Northern Airlines]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection