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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.
B1989.016.1882.19
(Bristol Bay fishing) [men offloading fish at dock, probably Libby, McNeill, & Libby cannery]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.012.91
[distant view of Carmel Mission at Kanulik, 1910]
Keywords: religion, churches
Collection: B2014.012
B2016.024.101
Coronation Is., Alaska, Ap. ’53 [aerial, airplane float in foreground]
Keywords: Coronation Island
Collection: B2016.024
B1989.016.1882.20
(Bristol Bay fishing) [two girls on boardwalk next to building, probably Libby, McNeill, & Libby cannery]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1882.11
(Bristol Bay fishing) [men offloading fish at dock, probably Libby, McNeill, & Libby cannery]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1882.24
(Bristol Bay fishing) [view of bay from shore]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.019.1.13f.04259.06
Seldovia trip - Homer Spit, lands end from water, sunset - horizon, [Scenics - Sunsets - Homer Spit], 1984
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Scenics, Sunsets, Homer Spit
Collection: B2016.019
B1979.001.087
Driving the first spike, April 29, 1915. [caption attached to image:] Driving the first spike on the Government railroad at Anchorage on April 29, 1915. Participants in the event have not been identified. [from verso:] Miss Martha White of Ladd Station near Tyonic, 19 years old. [men observe while woman prepares to swing spike driver tool]
Collection: B1979.001 AHFAM FIC
B1985.027.1604
ARCO Base Camp, Prudhoe Bay. Wien Consolidated Airlines, photo by Frank Whaley
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1994.008.45.09
(US Senators tour Alaska 1977)(Sen Hanson)(Sen Jackson)(Sen Durkin)
Collection: B1994.008
B1995.014.101.1
[military base in snowstorm, with trucks, building, flagpole, Adak]
Keywords: winter
Collection: B1995.014
B2001.036.1420
[print and original negative] waiting in clinic, Savoonga, AK, 4-82 [woman and child seated in waiting room]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B2001.036.3372
[original negative] [house with snowbank, possibly Nuiqsut 3/81]
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B2013.066.412
Bert & Tommy Foss seining near Pedro Bay, 1962 [two men in rowboat on lake]
Collection: B2013.066
B2016.004.459
Melton Ozenna with nephew Peter, 6 mos., Little Diomede Island, March 1983 [man holding infant indoors; print date Apr 83]
Collection: B2016.004
B2019.019.IA9-14
Fairweather Range [Tanaku], 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Fairweather, Water, Mountains, Tanaku
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B1989.016.138.1
Sydney Laurence painting, Winter Mt. McKinley (vertical).
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1391.5
Salmon at Bristol Bay. Hewitt's, 6 [two crewmen near hold filled with fish. copy neg]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1882.26
(Bristol Bay fishing) [dock or jetty under construction, probably near Libby, McNeill, & Libby cannery]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2039.1
(Elmendorf, 1940) [man in Army uniform and woman in fur parka looking at poster, "Let's All Back the Attack! 4th War Loan," with painting by Rusty Heurlin]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.788.1
P-426. Hewitt's Photo, Anchorage, Alaska (Matanuska Valley corn, Palmer)
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.788.2
P-432. Corn & husker. Hewitt's Photo (Matanuska Valley corn, Palmer) [man standing in corn field]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection