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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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B1989.016.SteinerAL.1
(SteinerAL Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1990.014.5.AKNative.23.78.1
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2019.007.434
Nondalton, March 23, 1993 [girls basketball; gymnasium; bleachers; spectators]
Collection: B2019.007
B1996.035.2.Kirby.Stanton.6
Letter, Stan Kirby to Adak Museum, November 1992
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society
B2000.014.860
(860)(Kelve Farm the Cabin J Kehoe J Reilly Tanana Sep 6 1917)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1995.014.76.10
[soldiers making traverse across old avalanche field, tracks in foreground, men in distance, McKinley rescue squad operation]
Keywords: military, mountaineering
Collection: B1995.014
B1989.016.2035.9
(Monument, Anchorage-Palmer Highway) [man wearing three-piece suit and fedora with three women, presumably from the Daughters of the American Revolution, standing next to stone marker]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.69.12
[two soldiers wearing broad-brimmed hats and backpacks with packboards stopped on ridgeline, one carring pickax, another pickax propped against backpack and hat on ground in foreground]
Keywords: hiking, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.5.70
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B2017.023.148
S-464 Street Scene - Wrangell, Alaska, Schallerers [picutre postcard, downtown Wrangell]
Collection: B2017.023
B90.14.5.ANC.5.46
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.Anc / B90_14_5.ANC.5
B1989.016.2318.8
(Ed Suddach's Warehouse, interior, April 25, 1951) [i.e. Edwin Suddock, men standing next to boxes of goods and food on conveyor belt and in piles, including cartons of Libby's Tomato Juice, Stokely's Apple Sauce, Wesson Oil, and Mazola Refined Corn Oil]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.EQ.17.28.35
A number of concrete block bldgs of Anchorage to demonstrate that generally those buildings did not suffer serious damage in the March 27 earthquake of 1964. The views were made for Ken Sheppard President of the Alaska Concrete Products corp on Whitney Rd.
Keywords: building exterior, buildings
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.EQ / EQ_17
B1990.014.2018.1.127.002
43-4; Grandpa and Grandma Hendee [man and woman at front porch steps; structures, domiciles in background; March 10-17, 1940; likely Seattle]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.20.19
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.2210.52
E-75 (Queen Ruthie Johnson and attendants) [woman in evening dress, cape, and tiara, holding wand, standing on building steps with five young women in printed dresses, Eklutna? 1937?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.168.46.1.5
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2000.017.022
[men sitting under umiaks on tundra, food and supplies on ground, water in background, buildings at far right, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B1990.014.2018.1.175.005
58-3; Interior of Frank Shelton's house [Ketchikan, 1940; room furnished with sofa; upright piano and bench; round table and chairs; radio; clock; rugs; floor lamps]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.5.AKNative.35.89.19B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1990.014.5.TV.168.9.3.4B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV