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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.
B1984.077.16.034
[man walking away from front steps of building, same building as .010-.030, .031]
Collection: B1984.077
B1997.003.258
[aerial view of landscape; struts and bottom of wing in foreground]
Collection: B1997.003
B1989.016.1572.2
(Palmer - Hay Crop) [man standing on hay loaded into cart drawn by horse team, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.200
[Indigenous Alaskan young woman standing on boardwalk outside Polaris Bar building. Sitnasuaq (Nome), Inupiaq Territory]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Sitnasuaq, Nome, Inupiaq, Territory, Inupiat, Young woman, Teen, Teenager, Girl, Boardwalk, Polaris Bar, Bar, Building, Business, Sign, Coca Cola, Olympia Beer, Town
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2015.008.829
[view across river to glacier terminus]
.829 – [similar to .828]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.19.001a
Scn; Air; Valdez Glacier 1969
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2017.024.3344
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [Savoonga; spring breakup scene; children on boardwalk; structures; people near umiak in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.976
L119 Mount McKinley [aerial view of mountain, glaciers]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2143.50
96. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Valley at Palmer) [dirt road at left in foreground running past cultivated field, homestead buildings in middle ground, mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1227
98. Count Prozor (Russian Minister) & his daughter Else, with whom I was travelling. Hotel garden at Asunción [man and woman posed outdoors]
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1170
O33 Sky Twins - Fairbanks, Alaska (NC smoke stacks; 1946 postcard) [NC Co. sign between smoke stacks; rooftops, structures, river, forest in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1973.079.149
[two small skiffs with several men in each boat attending to or standing by a much larger vessel or ship][negative is cracked]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.180
Scn, Vert [verticle]; Photo fans & tourists at Portage Glacier; 25 June 1961 [people near lakeshore, man using tripod, woman watching him, woman with camera walking; icebergs, mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.17
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: building exterior
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B2015.008.1199
Benares. “Ghats” (= gawts). A ghat is a flight of steps into the river used for bathing or washing, or worshipping. This is the R. Ganges, so sacred that it is an object of pilgrimage from all India. Nearly every rajah has a palace on it. Here a Hindu wishes to die & have his corpse burned. We saw all these things going on. The peaked buildings are temples. Palaces at top [view across river to opposite bank]
Collection: B2015.008