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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.
B2017.023.255
[Three couples sitting on rock formation, in front of rock and wood shelter.]
Collection: B2017.023
B1995.014.23.2
[musher and dog team on winter trail. original image blurred]
Keywords: animals, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.023.111
[two women pose in bathing suits, dog, beach, mountain in background]
Collection: B2017.023
B1995.014.89.7
[soldiers walking near row of Quonset huts partially buried in snowdrift, Adak?]
Keywords: military, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.89.8
[row of Quonset huts partially buried in snowdrift, Adak?]
Keywords: residences, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.Scn.7.1
Alaska steamboat in front Columbia Glacier about 1938. Cruise boats / Historical. Photographer's number 17576. 4 x 6 negative
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2017.024.2140
King Island, copyright 1986 [close-up of man wearing eyeglasses smoking cigarette]
Collection: B2017.024
B2022.005.224
[Obscured image of person outside; building nearby]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Person, Individual, Outside, Building, Window, House, Structure
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1995.014.118.9
[sluice box, gold pan, and other equipment at small mining operation on creek]
Collection: B1995.014
B2022.005.114
[Young couple in uniform (likely Civil Air Patrol of USAF) cuddling on bus]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Couple, Man, Young man, Woman, Young woman, Uniform, Clothing, Civil Air Patrol, CAP, C.A.P., Air Force, U.S., USAF, U.S.A.F., Bus, Transportation
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1995.014.4.10
Marshall 1937. Al Morenzi's store and a house Bill Amowak bought from Sears and Roebuck in the early 1930s [village scene, with houses and stacks of firewood and barrels, Yukon River at right]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.15.13
[musher and dog team stopped near bluff along shore of frozen water, possibly Yukon River, mountains in distance]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.Scn.6.6
15240 Mt McKinley from Trapper Lake 250mm Hassl Dx 22 September 1963
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.Scn.7.2
Alaska Line boat in front Columbia Glacier about 1938. Historical. Photographer's number 17577. 4 x 6 negative
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.003.004
Alyce E. Anderson in front of first school house in Ninilchik. She was first territorial school teacher in Ninilchik.
Collection: B1990.003 Alyce E_ Anderson Collection
B1983.091.S1450.075
NCL Trip: Children receiving candy & gum. 8/12/53. Northern Consolidated Airlines [pilot Jimmy Hoffman hands out candy and gum to children on the bank of River at Eek; airplane; dog in front of airplane]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.5.Scn.6.22
20243 Mt McKinley reflected in Trapper Lake August 1959 McK south
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1998.014.1.625
E44 An Alaskan family "at Fort Yukon" [man, woman wearing kuspuk, mukluks, with child on her back, two children standing, outside log structure, possibly a store, window, HIlls Bros. Coffee sign; Standard Gasoline can, wood crate to left, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.4547
[waterfront with docks and small boat harbor, ferry dock at right, mountains in distance; print date Sep 68]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.008.696
234.2. Back to tidewater, Harvard, 1914 [view down rocky shore to glacier terminus,
hanging glacier at left, man standing on shore at right]
Keywords: tidal glacier, Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, Harvard Glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.695
234.1. End of Lowell Glacier. Traveling on moraine. 9.14.14 [view up glacier valley,
climber standing at left]
Keywords: Prince William Sound, College Fiord, glacier, mountaineering, mountains
Collection: B2015.008