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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.
B2016.004.052.021
(Prudhoe Bay oil startup 6-20-1977) [worker wearing hard hat points to controls; diagrams on wall]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1004
(Blueberry picking mile 100 on the Glen Hwy 1977 Christina Smith of NYC)
Keywords: Glenn Highway, blueberry, harvest
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1029
Willy Hensley, 7/17/81 [portrait of Willie Hensley underneath airplane]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1065
Alaskan Gov. Bill Sheffield hosts author James Michener for lunch at the gov. mansion in Juneau, AK, Jan. ’85 [two men eating at table, poinsettias on window sill; print date Feb 85]
Keywords: literature, politics, food
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1068
Paul Tiulana launching umiak in Anch., 9/12/80 [people paddling umiak]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1134
.1134-1138 – Winds raked Anchorage. Official Entry, Best Photo Series, Alaska Press Club Competition 1980 [Trifold mount. Five images from photo feature on November 1979 windstorm. Entry blank and original clipping adhered to back of mount.] This fence, like many others in Muldoon, was blown flat and now is nothing but a series of gates.
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1135
.1134 - 1138 – Winds raked Anchorage. Official Entry, Best Photo Series, Alaska Press Club Competition 1980 [Trifold mount. Five images from photo feature on November 1979 windstorm. Entry blank and original clipping adhered to back of mount.] Before the winds blew, this truck and trailer were parked neatly next to each other behind St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 2111 Muldoon Road. Now, they give new meaning to the term semi-trailer.
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1136
.1134 - 1138 – Winds raked Anchorage. Official Entry, Best Photo Series, Alaska Press Club Competition 1980 [Trifold mount. Five images from photo feature on November 1979 windstorm. Entry blank and original clipping adhered to back of mount.] Boots Nelson is understandably upset. Her front yard is now littered with the roof of her house and the wreckage of her son’s motorcycle. And behind her home in the trailer park at DeBarr and Muldoon are the remnants of a shed taken by the wind, too.
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1137
.1134 - 1138 – Winds raked Anchorage. Official Entry, Best Photo Series, Alaska Press Club Competition 1980 [Trifold mount. Five images from photo feature on November 1979 windstorm. Entry blank and original clipping adhered to back of mount.] Municipal workmen were out on the job Friday, replacing telephone lines ripped down by the gale-force winds.
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1138
.1134 - 1138 – Winds raked Anchorage. Official Entry, Best Photo Series, Alaska Press Club Competition 1980 [Trifold mount. Five images from photo feature on November 1979 windstorm. Entry blank and original clipping adhered to back of mount.] Street signs without street sign poles were a common sight in the wake of Thursday’s storm. This one is in Muldoon, where the worst damage is.
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.115.1
Main St., Fair Princess anchored [view down street to cruise ship at dock]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.115.2
Main St., Fair Princess anchored [view down street to cruise ship at dock]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1165
Larry Flynt. Official Entry, Best Portrait, Alaska Press Club Awards 1985 [naked Flynt sitting in wheelchair in hotel room, talking on telephone, on December 1, 1983. Entry blank adhered to back of mount. Original clipping missing]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.1176
Energy: don’t let your day zap you. Entry, Category 26, Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Competition [woman manipulating electronic device. Entry blank adhered to back of mount. Original clipping missing.]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.117.46
Kennicott, McCarthy, Sheep Mtn., Chitina, 920607 [woman riding tram over Kennicott River, with dog and rifle]
Keywords: transportation, Animals
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.11.12
811113, 3, Bettles Lodge, Anaktuvuk aerials, sod house, Elijah Kakinya [interior of house with baby playing on floor]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.11.7
811113, 3, Bettles Lodge, Anaktuvuk aerials, sod house [man unloading box of diapers for Alice Ahgook from Britten-Norman Islander airplane tail number N59360]
Keywords: transportation, aviation, shipping, freight
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.125.001
Campbell Creek Classic [inflatable rafts, paddling on creek]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.125.003
Campbell Creek Classi [two people paddle conoe with passenger in center]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.125.004
Campbell Creek Classic [four people floating creek wearing floatation vests, inflatable raft, "Checker Cab."
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.125.005
Campbell Creek Classic [people floating on inner-tube rafts]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.12.8
Barrow hearing, May 1980 [women wearing parkas listening to testimony]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.13.1
Barrow, 89883, May 1980 [seal head on ice]
Keywords: Animals, hunting
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.13.16
Barrow, 89883, May 1980 [man at Eugene Brower's whaling camp]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.14.25
Barrow, 89884, May 1980 [caribou leg furs on drying rack]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.14.26
Barrow, 89884, May 1980 [children playing with freight sled on Barrow street]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.16.22
Barrow 5180 [children riding bikes on snow]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.16.23
Barrow 5180 [children riding bikes on snow]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.17.13
Barrow people, 5-80 [two children wearing parkas posed outside]
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.17.30
Barrow people, 5-80 [man inside home, man, woman, and son holding small dog posed on couch]
Collection: B2016.004