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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.
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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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B1989.016.403.7
Anchorage street scene [bird's eye view of Fourth Avenue looking west, including IOOF Bldg., Eckmann's Furniture, U.G. Crocker, The Gitchell, Seidenverg Clothier]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.213.005
67-3 Grand Coulee Dam [Washington, March 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.024.2118
King Island, copyright 1986 [man carving wood with handmade adze; beach; structures in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2069.6
(IBM at City Hall, 2-4-65, computer room) [woman standing next to computers holding circuit board, IBM 403 at left, other equipment and filing cabinets visible, "Think" sign on wall, early computing]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.5.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1990.014.4.Scn.1.38273
[Winter scene of hikers on Portage Lake, slide dated APR 92]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1970.028.104
L to R: John Dimond, Father B.R. Hubbard, Nicholas Cavaliere, 1936, Taku Ice Cap, Alaska [three men on glacier with movie camera]
Keywords: photography, cameras, Hollywood
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B90.14.5.Logging.1.6.36
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1995.014.8.4
The funeral of a young boy who went out trapping and presumably died of hypothermia. The priest's name was [Vasily] Changsak. [Russian Mission, procession]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.61.3
[soldiers wearing snowshoes stopped on mountainside during ascent, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.254.001
78-4 Elaine Cloudy [April 1942; Ketchikan; portrait, heart-shaped locket]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.4.Science.8.14489
Tundra; Aerial
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1989.016.2218
Sydney Laurence, 1920. 156 [photograph of Sydney Laurence painting of cabin in winter. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.025.521
Mining: Coal: Colorado: Tundra above Broad Pass; man standing in tundra]
Collection: B2015.025
B1990.014.2018.1.86.004
31-1; Nov 23rd Pan X 32-20; Dev in DK 20-15 min @ 65°; Basha on staircase [woman wearing velvet-looking dress and pumps poses on stairs; paneled wall with art in background; likely Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1995.010.6114
[aerial of CAA site with communications towers and buildings, 1940s. Cf. .5873]
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.5.AKNative.39.41
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2574
8, Interior dormitory room [Eklutna Industrial School].
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Large negs in freezer
B1979.002.Album1.171
53. Portage Bay flats. Thomas Riggs Jr. [scrub brush in flat at base of mountains, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.1122
O14 Sea shore cabin (1946 postcard) cabin built on rock outcropping, trees]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2021.002.088
Slides with images of Fleming family members and friends.
Keywords: Samuel Fleming, African American Families
Collection: B2021.002 Samuel Fleming Collection
B2015.008.1241
30e. Andes, near Puente del Fuca, Argentina [scenic. With stamp of Dora Keen]
Collection: B2015.008