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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.
B1995.010.3104
[Alaska Native elder woman with cane on steps of Northern Commercial Company store, carton of Post Sugar Crisp cereal on porch, Fort Yukon]
Collection: B1995.010
B2014.027.35
#3-78. Inuit male spectator, Iditarod 1978, Nancy Lake, Alaska [portrait of Alaska Native man wearing fleece-lined hat with earflaps, blue down jacket, and plaid shirt. Cf. .183. At AFN 2018, tentatively identified as Spike or Ralph Willoya] [Inupiaq Territory, Sitnasuaq (Nome). At AFN 2022, man identified as Spike Willoya. Location identified as Nome area.]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Indigenous, BIPOC, Iditarod, Sled dog race, Race, Winter, Snow, Inupiaq, Territory, Inupiat, Sitnasuaq, Nome, Inuit, Man, Spectator, Nancy Lake, Portrait, Hat, Jacket, Outerwear, Plaid shirt, Spike Willoya
Collection: B2014.027
B2017.024.1345
Diomede, Mar 1962 [man stands on elevated planks looking toward sea ice (?); structures in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1347
Diomede, Feb 1962 [man wearing parka poses in front of wood frame of umiak]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1369
Diomede, Feb 1962 [Woman in eyeglasses poses with three children in snow; parkas]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2081
King Island, copyright 1986 [man handline walrus tusks and skull]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2088
King Island, copyright 1986 [close-up of man wearing eyeglasses, cap]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2095
King Island, copyright 1986 [men, hunters, hauling umiak across snow; motor]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2128
King Island, copyright 1986 [man holds up part of walrus skull with tusks; snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1045
Jan71P7 #16030 Barrow [Inupiaq woman wearing parka with rose-pattern fabric and gloves dances in front of drummers, singers, men, who are also wearing parkas, fur trim]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Dancing, Drum, Drummers, Parka
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1370
Diomede, Feb 1962 [woman posing in front of group of people, one looking through telescope (?); dog, structures]
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.010.4920
[five men sitting with drums, women and children behind them, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.024.1049
Jan71P7 #16034 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing green, fur trimmed parka, white mukluks dances; hand of second dancer seen at left. At AFN 2022, individual identified as ? Kogak of Wainwright performing a Point Hope dance]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Point Hope, Dancing, Parka
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.010.4863
[two women standing on beach next to drying racks, one woman wearing kuspuk with fur trim, ice in water near shore, Kotzebue; print date Jun 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.102.15
[burial cairn on rise, river in background, Mountain Village, 1936]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.015.06
This isn’t so good of me, but is of Frank & Robert. A cold wind was blowing & I show it. Just thot you could see how Robert has grown [Frank, Leada, and Robert posed outdoors next to building, early 1940s?]
Collection: B2015.015
B2017.020.132
[Chinese American woman holding young girl posed next to Christmas tree, rack holding clothing in background, 1950-1955]
Collection: B2017.020
B2014.027.13
ITDR-77 #13. Iditarod Sled Dog Race, 1977, Inuit lady in handmade fur kuspuk, Nome, Alaska
Collection: B2014.027
B2015.009.9
Looking back to town on Fourth [pedestrians walking down sidewalk in winter, buildings on either side of street Chugach Mountains in distance]
Collection: B2015.009
B2000.017.305
Hewitt’s Drug [commercial slide. two young children wearing mukluks and parkas with fur trim standing outdoors; no date]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B1995.010.3113
[two Alaska Native women posed in front of Northern Commercial Company store, Fort Yukon. Cf. .3108]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.4882
[three men standing next to fish drying racks on Kotzebue beach; print date Aug 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.74.10
[soldiers stopped on ridge overlooking valley]
Keywords: military, hiking
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.74.11
[soldiers wearing broad-brimmed hats and carrying backpacks stopped on ridge in cloud]
Keywords: hiking, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.027.32
ITDR-78 #18. Musher and wife become spectators, Iditarod Sled Dog Race, Nome, Alaska, March 1978
Collection: B2014.027
B2015.007.107
[Alaska Native man, woman, and young girl posed on tundra, man and woman wearing cloth parkas with short fur ruffs, child wearing headscarf]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.100
[men with two sleds and dog teams stopped on winter tundra. Original print damaged]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.69
[two Alaska Native boys in rowboat on river, both wearing driving caps and holding oars]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.007
B2017.024.2076
King Island, copyright 1986 [woman in parka and blue scarf looks through binoculars; snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B2015.007.117
[two Alaska Native men seated on tundra, both wearing Western style clothing, neckties and driving caps]
Collection: B2015.007
B2017.024.1121
Aug61P Barrow [State Trooper squats while interacting with children outside the Point Barrow Trading Post; furs hanging on line; parkas; structures; automobile in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Children, Alaska State Trooper, Point Barrow Trading Post
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.014.54.14
[bird's eye view of four men walking in valley in winter, mountains in distance, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation, or Adak?]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B2015.007.178
[four Alaska Native men paused in their work outdoors, three wearing visors, one wearing driving cap, utility pole in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.136
[Alaska Native woman wearing dress, cardigan sweater, and mukluks posed next to wood-plank building]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.153
[three young Alaska Native men posed outdoors, all wearing Western style clothing including driving caps and neckties]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.32
[Alaska Native man and woman posed outdoors next to corrugated metal building, both wearing Western style clothing]
Collection: B2015.007
B2014.027.189
[two women standing outside business, woman at left wearing sunglasses, knitted cap and parka with fur ruff, Alaska Native woman at right wearing eyeglasses, print parka with fur ruff, and headscarf, holding purse; print date Aug 75. At AFN 2015, identified as Helen Fagerstrom of Nome (left) and possibly Hannah Hawley (right)] [Sitnasuaq (Nome). At AFN 2022, woman on left confirned Helen Fagerstrom.]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Indigenous, BIPOC, Inupiat, Women, Building, Business, Sunglasses, Cap, Parka, Fur, Clothing, Outerwear, Eyeglasses, Glasses, Headscarf, Purse, Helen Fagerstrom, Hannah Hawley, Sitnasuaq, Nome
Collection: B2014.027
b2015.027.108
[group portrait of workers standing outside building, white man wearing fedora hat in center, possibly compiler]
Keywords: hunting, seals
Collection: B2015.027
B2014.027.175
[two men smoking cigarettes, wearing fur-trimmed parkas, sitting on snow bank]
Collection: B2014.027