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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.
B1983.091.S4176.14
Destroyed houses in the Turnagain area amidist huge cracks and uplifted soil.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4176.8
Destroyed houses in the Turnagain area amidist huge cracks and uplifted soil.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.2390
"Eye in ground" [hand moving clump of soil; eye-shaped object]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1986.096.EQ.may64test
Soils test hole rig by City Hall, May 1964 [1964 earthquake aftermath]
Collection: B1986.096 Anchorage Public Information Office
B1983.091.S4176.33
Turnagain Subdivision. showing soil liquification and the resulting cracks in ground and houses that have slipped off of foundations into slide area.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4176.89
Turnagain Subdivision. showing soil liquification and the resulting cracks in ground and houses that have slipped off of foundations into slide area.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.2018.1.268.019
83; Sept. 4, 1942; likely Ketchikan; woman using garden rake on soil; styructure with porch in right background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1859
T134 At Homer, Alaska [copy neg; tree in foreground; structures; military truck, possibly soil being excavated]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.004.permafrost.jul74p5.9
Frost thawing surcharged the soils to semi liquidity when the flowing occurred. Monkmeyer Press [print date Jul 74 P5]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.2018.1.268.021
83; Sept. 4, 1942 [ likely Ketchikan; woman (possibly Basha) raking soil with garden rake; porch in right background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.268.020
83; Sept. 4, 1942 [ likely Ketchikan; woman (possibly Basha) standing on soil holding garden rake; porch in right background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1063
(M12 dragline PC; placer mining for gold in Alaska) [Bacyrus-Monighan dragline unloading bucket of soil; bulldozer; two men in foreground; structures, houses]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.037.020
.20a – [closer view of just the steam shovel picking up soil] .20b – [similar to .20a, appears to be taken a few moments after the previous photo]
Collection: B2009.037 Becky Gay Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.15.5
Soil testing at 4th & Dst. After the earthquake of March 27 5:27 pm 6min. 1964 8.7 Richter intensity , 4th Ave between C&D street. South Side.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_15
B1998.014.1.1791
T100 Kotzebue, Alaska, in Arctic America [coastal scene, structures, steel drums (containers) reinforcing soil and stacked near beach; people walking along street; Rothman Store, pilings]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.4677
"This hillside was ready to seed 1 year ago" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, May 11, 2018; sleeve 8; snow-covered farm field, soil, agriculture, birch trees in the distance]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1957.005.338
Matanuska Valley, 1900-1930. AEC G [no number] [on verso:] Rich soil 3 to 5 ft., near Camp 16 [View of cut alongside road or right-of-way. Same image as B1979.002.31]
Keywords: Matanuska, Valley, AEC, A.E.C., Alaskan Engineering Commission, Alaska Railroad, Railroad, Camp 16, Soil, Road
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd
B1979.002.4676
"5/11, where seeding began 1 year ago today" [sleeve 7; Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, 1918; snow-covered farm field, soil, agricultural structures, barn, birch trees]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1982.046.057a
"Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum groundbreaking, Sept 12, 1967; 1. Mary Louise Rasmuson, 2. Dick Silberer, 3. Bob Reeve, 4. Wilda Hudson, 5. Elmer Rasmuson; Merrill E. Grube Photography" [Dick Silberer turns over soil, grass, digs, as others look on, easel with drawing of museum]
Collection: B1982.046
B1982.046.056a
Fine Arts Musem [drawing] "Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum 1. Mary Louise Rasmuson, 2. Bob Reeve, 3. Dick Silberer, 4. Wilda Hudson, 5. Elmer E. Rasumson; Merrill E. Grube Photography; September 12, 1967 [Bob Reeve turns over soil, grass with shovel as others look on; groundbreaking]
Collection: B1982.046