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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.
B1989.016.2138.6
Greetings from the Northland (Sydney Laurence painting, Mt. McKinley and river, neg for cards #7)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.455
C8 Alaskan Queens "three Alaska queens on ice throne" [women wearing sashes, Cordova, University; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1697
Mt. McKinley. Hewitt's [park road at right. copy neg]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2141.20
D-20 [Native family standing next to log house, with mother in print parka carrying young boy and father in parka and mukluks holding little girl in print parka, oil barrels behind, frozen waterway in background]
Keywords: houses, residences, villages, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1972.046.157
[three Native women standing outdoors with young boy, one woman wearing print parka with short fur ruff, one wearing caribou parka with large ruff and U-shaped hem, one wearing fur parka with walrus tusk-pattern and geometric design on bottom hem, boy wearing fur parka and pants, village buildings in background, Seward Peninsula?]
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B2022.005.177
[View of (possibly government) buildings in city; row of American flags]
Keywords: View, Buildings, Architecture, Flags, American flag, City, Government
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.50.005
20-3; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sits near table covered by tablecloth, calendar on wall is likely from July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.50.005
20-3; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sits near table covered by tablecloth, calendar on wall is likely from July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.51.001
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sitting near table covered by tablecloth, calendar from likely July 1939 on wall; lamp, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.51.001
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sitting near table covered by tablecloth, calendar from likely July 1939 on wall; lamp, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.024.3417
[winter scene in northern Alaska; two children wearing parkas stand near structure; fur; river or sea ice in distance; undated - slide has residue stuck to it]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.1084.5
P-234. Hewitt's (Palmer, July 3, 1936) [man on dais speaking to crowd in front of Palmer School, American flags on stage, man with accordion behind speaker]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2064.2
(IBM at BSB 4/22) [two men in room with card sorting machines, early computing]
Keywords: computers
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2064.3
(IBM at BSB 4/22) [two men in room with card sorting machines, early computing]
Keywords: computers
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.4943
"8/8/1919 J. D. McIntyre. Oat field" [sleeve laveled as 79-1/2; appears to be potato field in foreground; road in midground; farmland in distance, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.1084.10
P-239. Palmer, July 3, 1936. Hewitt's [passengers on platform at Palmer depot next to Alaska Railroad train]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2009.017.1987.12.12
“The stairway to heaven” ©1987 Sat. Dec. 12, 1987 [man falling down exterior stairs at Loussac Library]
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.2018.1.51.002
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sits at table writing with pencil; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.51.002
20-4; Portrait of Kitty Fox [child wearing sweater sits at table writing with pencil; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1442
S31 Fishing in the Aleutians (A favorite Aleutian sport; 1946 post card; fishing 4 on 1 & 1 other) [copy neg of four images, service men fishing on rivers, shore, rocks, waders; fishing poles]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2044.4
(Sydney Laurence pictures of Natives) [studio portrait of Alaska Native youth in fur parka and mukluks. double exposure with studio portrait of man. 5 x 7 nitrate negative]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2044.5
(Sydney Laurence pictures of Natives) [studio portrait of two Alaska Native children in fur parkas. not same as .2044.3. copy negative]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2044.6
(Sydney Laurence pictures of Natives) [studio portrait of two Alaska Native children in fur parkas. same as .2044.53. copy negative]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2044.3
(Sydney Laurence pictures of Natives) [studio portrait of two Alaska Native children in fur parkas. 5 x 7 nitrate negative]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection