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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.
Anchorage Museum Archive Image Search
The Anchorage Museum Archive collection includes more than 700,000 photographs and print materials
on Alaska and the Circumpolar North, with 94,942 items scanned and searchable online.
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B1998.014.1.187
B11 Fairbanks RR Station & hospital 1946 [river in foreground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1555.2
[still life with vegetables and flowers, Palmer or Matanuska Colony?]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.88.90A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.67.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.TV.083.70.1.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.EQ.01.1.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ 1
B2015.008.1084
[men seated in front of large brick fireplace in lodge or hotel, moose antlers mounted
on fireplace]
Keywords: fire place, moose antlers, lodge interior
Collection: B2015.008
B2006.023.5716.jpg
[Muktuk Narston? with unidentified people next to truck with Iditarod sign. Possibly at State Fair.]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B1990.014.5.P.25.90.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P25
B90.14.5.AncAir.21.1.13
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 21
B1995.014.122.4
[soldiers stopped next to creek during hike, mountains in background]
Keywords: military, hiking
Collection: B1995.014
B90.14.5.ARR.2.181
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1989.016.1190.1
Harvesting in the Matanuska Valley. Hewitt's 93 [man with team of horses and farming machinery in hayfield. copy neg]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.095.127.1B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2006.023.4483
Carousel labeled: Buying fish Pitkas Point. Joe Sr. fish buying.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2015.008.259
3_7 92425 Port Wells Alaska College Fjord from Packenham Point
Keywords: port wells, prince william sound
Collection: B2015.008
B2014.012.47
[cannery complex seen from water. original image blurry]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B2014.012
B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.17
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.TV.168.10.2.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2015.008.669
223.5. Geography. Right to left. Bryn Mawr, Vassar and Wellesley Glaciers, College
Fjord, Alaska. They are the remnants of a great glacier which once filled the fjord, and were
once tributary to the Harvard Glacier now 4 miles up the fjord (to the right) [bird’s eye view
looking down fjord, small rowboat in water, gnarled pine tree at left. With stamp of Dora
Keen. Cf. .16]
Keywords: tidal glacier, Prince William Sound, glacier, College Fiord
Collection: B2015.008
B1973.079.41
[Ft Davis near Nome at the mouth of the Nome River on Seward Peninsula 1906][negative is dark and in poor condition]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.15.50
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
b2011.014.62
Unidentified man and woman, probably interior Alaska. 3 x 5 3/8" b&w photograph.
Collection: B2011.014