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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.
B2006.023.4540.jpg
[Boat on mudflats of Cook Inlet with Mt. Susitna in background]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B2006.023.4540
[Boat on mudflats of Cook Inlet with Mt. Susitna in background]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1997.003.218
[aerial shot; possibly Anchorage area, mudflats?; neg is deteriorating]
Collection: B1997.003
B1989.016.1900.13
(Seward Highway in summer) [view down unpaved road, mudflats of upper Turnagain Arm at right]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1900.15
(Seward Highway in summer) [view down unpaved road, mudflats of upper Turnagain Arm at right]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album1.258
R33-10. Ship Creek low tide [view of mudflats and Cook Inlet, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.1025
Anchorage - Seward Hiway (l155) [automobiles on highway, paved surface, low tide, mudflats, Turnagain Arm, mountains]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.Album1.262
R30-9. Ship Creek [view from mouth to Cook Inlet, with large ship at anchor in distance, small boat on mudflats at left, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.254
R7-2. Ship Creek harbor. [two men near small boat on mudflats near mouth of Ship Creek on Cook Inlet, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.2047.3.11
(US Air Force airplane down in Cook Inlet, January 30, 1957) [Douglas C-124C Globemaster II on mudflats, heavy equipment at right. color 35mm slide]
Keywords: aviation, accidents, military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album1.264
M-6. Leaving for Knik. W. F. Milliken [barge U.S. Cargo Lighter No. 22 loaded with supplies and men, on mudflats at mouth of Ship Creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.245
Point below Twenty Mile Creek. P. S. Hunt J1851 [view down Alaska Northern Railway/Alaska Railroad tracks looking south, Turnagain Arm mudflats at right, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.1497
S67 Wings over Alaska [Douglas DC-3 aircraft flying in formation over water, possibly mudflats, clouds and mountains in distance; Legible tail numbers: 293280, 223954; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.Album1.266
R30-3. Ship Creek [view of mouth of river looking southeast, two men in canoe and man standing in water on mudflats next to piles of boxes, riverboat in background, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Anchorage, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.1664
T44 Anchorage, Alaska (1948, 300) [copy neg; aerial view of city looking east from shore of Cook Inlet to beyond Merrill Field and from Ship Creek to south of Chester Valley; structures, streets, roads, railroad tracks, park strip, downtown, South Addition, cleared land in Midtown, mudflats]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2024.001.397
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). Similar to .396 but a closer view. A line of automobiles with Indigenous individuals sitting on hoods or on sunroofs. In the front automobile, one individual in a beaded and fringed dress wears a sash that reads “Miss N.C.A.I. ’69-’70. They also wave a feathered baton. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs