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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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Please note, we are actively reviewing and updating our records. There may be language and images that are culturally sensitive or include outdated language that does not reflect the mission and goals of our institution today. We consent to input and recommendations from the public as we work on decolonizing our collections.
B1990.014.5.P.2.25D.3A
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P2
B1989.016.2141.40
D-54 [portrait of woman sitting in chair indoors]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.8218
[Fishing boats Glacier Bear, Arctic Wolf, Miss Unalakleet, Big Kyak]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2016.005.022
{photo album of family and military service on Attu during World War II}
Collection: B2016.005
B1990.014.5.Pol.16.163.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Pol
B2015.008.366
Virginia, Norman and Dick Freeman on Mrs. Greene’s Shetland ponies [three children riding horses on dirt road, Dora’s niece and nephews]
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1736.4
(Midnight sun on Chugach Mountains, March 1952)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.853
L59 An Aleutian Landscape [copy neg; jeep parked alongside dirt road next to waterfall; likely Umnak Island]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1794
T104 Sitka, Alaska, Frank Morgan photo (Sheldon Jackson Museum) [polygon structure with arched entry, coppola, cannons on either side of stairs]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2325.6
(New Hewitt's Store at corner Minnesota Bypass and Spenard Road, 1966, Sam McClain and Edna Liston in Hewitt's Drug) [man and woman at counter in store]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1084.4
P-233. Hewitt's (Palmer, July 3, 1936) [crowd on platform at Palmer depot with Alaska Railroad passenger train on tracks, one man in crowd holding a tuba, American flags hanging from station]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.24
[Indigenous Alaskan in reindeer parka outdoors midwinter; seal scratcher at upper center?]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Parka, Fur, Reindeer, Caribou, Mukluks, Gloves, Outerwear, Clothing, Footwear, Outside, Winter, Snow, Seal scratcher
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.5.P.25.109
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.P / P25
B1990.014.5.AKNative.42.8.2
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1995.010.5786
[view down track to Tunnel station in winter, man standing next to track in yard possibly George. Has neg dated 5/27/46]
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.5.Anc.Air.19.6.3
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc.Air / Anchorage Air / Anchorage Air 19
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.87.3B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1973.096.31
Plate 720_Jajuk-Selawik_From Copyright Photograph1928 by E S Curtis_Photogravure Suffolk Eng Co Cambridge, Mass native man posing for the camera wearing fur parka with hooded ruff]
Collection: B1973.096
B1989.016.2141.50
D-68 (Parka back) [fur parka with geometric decoration laid out to show back]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection