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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.
B1995.014.69.12
[two soldiers wearing broad-brimmed hats and backpacks with packboards stopped on ridgeline, one carring pickax, another pickax propped against backpack and hat on ground in foreground]
Keywords: hiking, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1486
S56 Army Scouts in the Alaska Range [service men, backpacks, winter gear, ropes, backpacks, pickaxe mountains; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1375
S1 Sourdough Boys (gold panning) [Two men mine for gold in creek, pickaxe, sluicebox, shovel, gold pan, military garrison cap, campaign hat; gravel, stove and tent in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.068a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from front of print photograph: “The Musher” from verso of print photograph “An Alaskan prospector.”] [man carrying pickaxe and shovels over his shoulder, wearing rucksack, hat with bug net, and waders carrying walking stick as he walks on a grassy slope; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.066a
[three men pose alongside a stream: one is leaning back and wears towel across his chest; a second holds first man’s hand and holds a pickaxe over his shoulder; a third holds a knife in front of first man’s chin and appears to be rubbing first man’s face. Mountains and possible canvas tent in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.068b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from front of print photograph: “The Musher” from verso of print photograph “An Alaskan prospector.”] [verso of slide: man carrying pickaxe and shovels over his shoulder, wearing rucksack, hat with bug net, and waders carrying walking stick as he walks on a grassy slope; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.066b
[verso of slide: three men pose alongside a stream: one is leaning back and wears towel across his chest; a second holds first man’s hand and holds a pickaxe over his shoulder; a third holds a knife in front of first man’s chin and appears to be rubbing first man’s face. Mountains and possible canvas tent in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1627
Queen Ninteman & her royal Rendezvous court. (T29 Anchorage, Alaska) [Babs Ninteman sits on throne with pickaxe back, with two women wearing gowns seated on each side of her; three girls wearing tutus and one boy wearing suit sit on steps; piano, drum, microphone, northern lights, aurora borealis backdrop; 1954, Fur Rondezvous]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley