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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
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B1995.014.119.4
Adak, on Sunday the Army would take men fishing [soldiers on open boat deck, mountains in distance]
Keywords: military, fishing
Collection: B1995.014
B1996.033.mccarty14
Jery McCarty, 1% proposal, Fairbanks, '85. Plexi, hardbd., Kodak refec. 16 x 24 x 2. #7
Collection: B1996.033
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.81
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.AKNative.24.60.7A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1998.014.1.1490a
(S60 Army Scouts drying salmon for dog food) [fish drying racks, tarp cover; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.WeinbergV.1
(Weinberg V Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.73.68B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B90.14.5.Anc.Air.1.64
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 1
B1990.014.5.AKNative.3.56
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.178.1
School Bldg., Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, 94. Dated 2/2/1942. [copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1899.3
(Anchorage Fourth Avenue at dusk, Nov. 15, 1952) [bird's eye view looking east to McKinley Apartments and Chugach Mountains]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.3745
Burled arch, Front Street, Nome, finish line of Iditarod Race.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1998.014.1.1983
T210 Palmer, Alaska [view of townsite with farm fields in foreground; water tower in background; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.P.28.5.27
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P28
B1989.016.196
Matanuska Valley grain, Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, P-298 [boys in wheat field]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.AKNative.22.46
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2012.031.10
This is a group of my school children. It was taken south of the school building. They are standing on about 4 ft. of snow. Anna & Conrad are on the right. [January 1917]
Collection: B2012.031
B2000.017.30
[women sitting on tundra near whale meat in foreground, others sitting behind plastic windbreak in background, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B1989.016.1903.3
(Alaska dairy farmhouse) [cow in front of wood frame house, delivery truck from The Sheely Dairy parked alongside, Matanuska Valley]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2019.007.252
Kokhanok, May 16, 1994 [children: one sitting on BMX bicycle, one sitting on wooden steps with puppy on his lap; bicycle and possibly motorcycle in background; water in distance]
Collection: B2019.007
B1989.016.WeirHenry.1
(Weir Henry Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B2006.023.7117.jpg
[1964 earthquake]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 7000-7999
B1995.010.6083
[wrecked cars in yard in residential area, Anchorage Fairview neighborhood, 1940s]
Collection: B1995.010