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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 95,683 items scanned and searchable online.
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B1990.014.5.AKNative.27.63
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2006.023.5309.jpg
[Groundbreaking for Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters?]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2015.008.234
2 5 9525 Port Wells Alaska Sunset on Harriman Fjord
Keywords: Chugach, College fjord, Prince William Sound, Port Wells, glacier, mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1307.t28crop
T28 [climber carrying backpack and pick standing on glacier, crevasses in foreground.
cf. .1311]
Keywords: glacier, crevasse, mountaineering, mountain
Collection: B2015.008
B1990.014.5.AKNative.38.64
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2017.024.2745
Nome, July 1983 Street scenes [exterior view of police officer and man wearing plaid jacket outside the Board of Trade Saloon; Nome's Oldest Saloon since 1900; Headquarters for the Sin City of Nome; Olympia Beer Finish banner with handwritten correction]
Collection: B2017.024
B1964.001.775
Eskimos of the Bering Coast after a seal hunt. Martin [Alaska Natives in kayak. Photographer A.B. Martin]
Keywords: hunting, subsistence, ethnotechnology, boats
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B1998.014.1.1148
(O23 Spirit house built over Indian graves; 1946 postcard) [cemetery, Russian Orthodox crosses, structures]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.6.003
2-1 March 1939 Panatonic x 24-16; Helen's knees [woman's lower legs; hose rolled down to top of calves; seated in chair or sofa]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1996.035.10.3.cover
Front cover of scrapbook, 11 ½ x 17 inches, plywood covers tied together with white braided string, front cover decorated with color map of Alaska featuring towns and resources.
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1990.014.5.Logging.1.11.1
(timber)(July 1966)(Rock Pit at end of road )(Rio Beaver NP)
Keywords: logging, natural resources, lumber, construction, forestry
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Logging / Logging 1
B1990.014.5.People.14.95
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 14
B1995.014.39.4
[climbers setting up base camp, Mt. McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: camping, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.2018.1.30.005
12-2 unloading fish from boat [two men at work; fish in tote on deck; man in hold lifting fish to deck; Ketchikan; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.151.001
50-1; Sept. 22; Pan X 12 min @65º DK 20 Panorama of Ketchikan, meter reading - yellow filter [view of waterfront, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1979.002.4947
"8/22/1919 Ballaine homestead, grains, hay & spuds" [sleeve 83; agriculture, fields, straw stacks, potatoes, trees in distance; Fairbanks area; writing on neg]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.575.2
Suspension bridge, Alaska. G.L. Johnson, Anchorage, Aaa.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection