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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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B1998.014.1.1121
O13 Seeing Alaska through a view finder (Cameras! Action! 1946 postcard; many people w/cameras) [copy neg; men and women stand in a line looking through camears; likely aboard ship, mast, ropes]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.407
[bird’s eye view looking west, Alaska Railroad locomotive No. 1 pulling Kiwanis Moose Gooser on Fifth Avenue in winter, passing Hoyt Motor Co. with tractor in yard, Kimball’s Store and Anchorage Grade School at right, photographer with camera standing in street, Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.1590.7
(KFQD Radio Station, Interior) [three men inside KFQD, with equipment including turntables, signs over windows read "Studio 'A'" and "Studio 'B'"]
Keywords: communications
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2012.030.3697
Earthquake damage to Turnagain Arm area, May 12, 1964 [aerial of shoreline]
Collection: B2012.030
B1989.016.787.3
P-442B. Hewitt's Photo [Matanuska Valley Rodeo, 9/7/36. Men on horses in front of outbuildings, one with sign for Wells Garage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.023.6
[semi tractor-trailer rig stopped on side of highway to assist the McRaes, tire chains hanging off front bumper]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2016.023
B2012.030.1065
Canneries. Bristol Bay, Alaska. Salmon cannery at Dillingham. Aug. 1955.
Collection: B2012.030
B1990.014.5.ConConv.27.8
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B90.14.5.ARR.2.121
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / ARR 2
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.20.99.16
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 20
B1998.014.1.2097
W9 Arctic wonderland "Fairbanks (bridge & river) 1946 postcard" [same as .2096; night scene, possible northern lights?]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.ConConv.20.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ConConv
B1979.002.Album1.305
Bluff on Susitna. D. L. Reaburn [view down Susitna River, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1989.016.140
Sydney Laurence painting, summer Mt. McKinley, Misty Mountain.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.46.14
[bird's eye view of coastline, with gun emplacements, remnants of docks, small boats on beach, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.EQ.5.3.50
Earthquake-Aiport, June 12,1964
Anchorage-some earthquake ARR Rehab after EQ 64 Edited May 20.1975
NP
Keywords: Nationional Bank exterioron 4th Ave, no earthquake damage visible
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_5
B1990.014.5.TV.094.240.2A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.90.26
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative