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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.
B2010.023.707
[two native alaskan children on the porch of a house smiling for the camera]
Collection: B2010.023
B1993.020.1160
(Anchorage Car Show){vintage cars}
Keywords: cars, car show, vintage cars
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1161
(Anchorage Car Show){vintage cars}
Keywords: cars, car show, vintage cars
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1162a
(Anchorage Car Show){vintage cars}
Keywords: cars, car show, vintage cars
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1162b
(Alaska Native made baskets)
Keywords: native arts, baskets
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1163
(Alaska Native made baskets)
Keywords: native arts, baskets
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1164
(Alaska Native made baskets)
Keywords: native arts, baskets
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1993.020.1165
(Alaska Native made baskets)
Keywords: native arts, baskets
Collection: B1993.020 Rhodes
B1991.048.186
[men standing next to wood plank buildings]
Collection: B1991.048 Dr_ H_E_ Auringer Collection
B1997.012.012
Canneries. S.E. Alaska Naha Bay. [?] of lake and cannery at Naha Bay. 1885.
Collection: B1997.012 Christian Rohlfing Collection
B2008.024.77
[bird’s eye view of Boy Scouts on parade on Fourth Avenue near F Street, Anchorage]
Collection: B2008.024
B2012.028.042
[group of six Natives; same as image .138; at AFN 2014, woman at right identified as chief’s daughter based on her dress and regalia]
Collection: B2012.028
B1999.014.1557
[Post Card of Trapper with furs standing in front of cabin along with his two dogs]
Keywords: dogs, cabin, camp, furs, winter, moose antlers, log cabin
Collection: B1999.014 Hilscher
B2010.023.614a
(Fig 104)(boy in center wears an old style cap worn by Nunivak men and boys. The man was the carpenter building the first school at Mekoryuk in 1959)(Van, Stone James W Nunivak Island Eskimo Technology and material Culture)
Collection: B2010.023
B1998.014.1.641
A group of visitors to the Fur Rendezvous from the Alaskan Arctic. The Eskimo games, dances and art exhibits are most welcomed and looked-forward to each year. "E57 Diomede Eskimos at Anchorage, 1950" [people, dancers, Sammy Mogg, Frank Ellana, pose in snowy ball field, mukluks, fur parkas, man in rear center wears military uniform; fence with signs for Murmac Lounge, City Bank, Rainier Beer in background, structures, McKinley Tower, house, trees in distance; caption label is taped to neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.642
Visiting Eskimos to the Anchorage Rendezvous "E57 Diomede Eskimos at Anchorage, 1950" [Fur Rendezvous, similar to .641]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1214
O54 An Alaskan totem honoring President Lincoln; photo by Frank Morgan (1949 postcard and print) [Saxman Totem Park]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1215
O54 An Alaskan totem honoring President Lincoln; photo by Frank Morgan (1949 postcard and print) [copy neg, Saxman Totem Park]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2007.005.6.A11
[group of native childern and a dog gathered around the entrance to an underground house]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2007.005.6.A25
[interior view of underground house with people lying down]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2010.023.344
(Barter Island -skins drying)(From N Chance 4-147)[Barter Island community with skins dying on the ground]
Collection: B2010.023
B2010.023.613a
(fig 103)(Elderly man wearing squirrel skin parka and sealskin pants 1937)
Keywords: alaska native
Collection: B2010.023
B1962.001A.138007
(E283)(dupe) Copper River Natives Alaska (Horse Creek Mary in the middle)
Keywords: native alaskan, portrait
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.2041.2
[text of advertisement, "Da-Lite Beaded Screens for movies slides $995 30x40 on stand"]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.426.2
Mt. McKinley, Alaska, Sydney Laurence [Mt. McKinley Reflections. copy neg.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1213
O53 An Alaskan Haida house; photo by Frank Morgan (1948 postcard and print) [copy neg; Totem Bight Community House, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2014.016.1856
Kiana, on the Kobuk River. Eskimo cache above the Arctic Circle [Alaska Native man and White man stand near log cache, fish drying rack at left, fireweed in foreground]
Keywords: food, fishing, ethnotechnology
Collection: B2014.016