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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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B1989.016.1110.1
P-37. Hewitt's (Hot boxes, Palmer) [vegetables growing in small greenhouse spaces]
Keywords: agriculture
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.5691.jpg
[Vi Redington with bird in cage]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2006.023.4437
Carousel labeled: Buying fish Pitkas Point. Joe Sr. fish buying.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2022.005.142
[Blurry image of Indigenous Alaskan Elders in parkas standing on boardwalk outside building]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Elder, Elders, Men, Women, Parka, Fur, Mukluks, Clothing, Outerwear, Footwear, Outside, Boardwalk, Building, Business
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.2018.1.16.002
4-3; Portraits - Sylvia Olsen [woman playing piano; curtain in background; 1939?]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2006.023.8981.jpg
Emmett Peters leaving Knik on his way to a record 1975 Iditarod Race. Copyright Bill Devine.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 8000-8999
B1998.014.1.1804
T111 Sitka, Alaska (Totem poles) [copy neg; Frank Morgan photo; same as .1803]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.925
L96 Pavlov [actually Pavlof], Aleutian Islands [copy neg; same as .845]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.77.19
[man standing outside log cabin mixing something in a fuel can, second man coming out of doorway holding a basin]
Keywords: residences
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.43.15
[two men with surveying equipment in foreground, tank farm in distance, building at right, mountains in distance, Adak?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1990.014.5.AKNative.40.69.14B
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1962.001A.262
Flowers in front of ex-Gov. U.W. Leedy’s residence in Valdez, Sept. 1, ’04. P.S. Hunt, G32 [Houses and buildings; People; Gardens; Leedy, John W.]
Keywords: Gardens, Flowers, J.W. Leedy, Governors, Politicians, Houses, Buildings, Valdez, John W. Leedy
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1990.014.5.AKNative.7.55
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_AKNative
B1989.016.378
Bertha and Silas [young woman and man in fur parkas]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1426
S24 Japanese equipment captured in the Aleutians (anti aircraft gun) [copy neg; same as .1424]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.002.173
{Young girl seated at a small table engaged in a pretend tea party with stuffed animals and toys}
Keywords: toys, children, play
Collection: B2016.002
B90.14.5.ARR.1.167
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.ARR / B90_14_5_ARR.1