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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.
B1989.016.176.1
Curry Hotel, Alaska Railroad. Hewitt's 3.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.029.2736
[infant wearing rain gear sitting on beach underneath umbrella; print date Jul 82]
Collection: B2017.029
B1990.014.5.EQ.08.1.6
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_8
B1998.014.1.2388
"Crack on ground? 1946 postcard, November 1943" [same as .2385]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2390
"Eye in ground" [hand moving clump of soil; eye-shaped object]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.007.062b
[house tipped into fissure in foreground, damage to apartment or office building in background]
Collection: B2017.007
B2007.005.6.A14
[three native children gathered together on a bed or wooden bunk]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2015.008.964
Photo by E.F. Foley, N.Y. Who went to Alaska in 1914 explore and map the sources of
the Harvard and Bryn Mawr Glaciers in an unexplored part of the Chugach Mts., above College
Fjord, Prince William Sound, Alaska. Miss Keen is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. In 1912
she made the 1st ascent of Mt. Blackburn, Alaska, 16,140 ft., in an expedition that required 33
days on ice and snow, and is the only sub-Arctic exploration ever organized and led by a
woman. A surveyor will be of the party this time. The Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp,
Belgium, had invited Miss [studio portrait of Dora]
Keywords: woman
Collection: B2015.008
B1984.055.235
Banquet scene with 1st National Bank hats; Betty Cuddy, Kay Linton, Dan Cuddy, and others; one hat reads “Here Come De Judge”
Collection: B1984.055
B1998.014.1.2389
"Crack on ground? 1946 postcard, November 1943" [same as .2385]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.007.106
[leaning utility pole next to barricade with sign ‘Danger Area Enter At Your Own Risk’, Turnagain]
Collection: B2017.007
B2017.007.42b
[Bird’s eye view of Anchorage from Westward Hotel looking south. Close-up of damage to J.C. Penney parking garage. Has print]
Collection: B2017.007
B1995.014.121.4
F-E Co., Fairbanks, 1942 [drilling apparatus in winter, Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.023.225
(scenic)(lake, fir trees in foreground horizontal)
Keywords: landscape
Collection: B2014.023
B2015.008.468
Fortifications, P.R. [commercial postcard, with Dora’s typed caption: “San Juan Harbor, Porto Rico, Jan. 1928”]
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.023.263
[scenic view, mountain, glacier, terminus, icebergs, ice floe, rocks, snow]
Collection: B2017.023
B2022.005.261
[one Indigenous woman with three children sitting on rocks]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, woman, children, Alaska
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1995.014.55.18
[scenic with small skiffs tied to shore near birch trees]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1062
(M12 dragline PC; placer mining for gold in Alaska) [mining scene; Bacyrus-Monighan dragline, bucket]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1983.091.S4176.24
4-64; Anchorage Earthquake photos for publication. (Wells Choice: Fourth Avenue classic: D&D Bar at left...."Our Town" banner over street.) [1964 street scene looking east showing earthquake damage; automobiles; pedestrians]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock