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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.
B1994.022.923
(Richardson Highway-construction camps)
Keywords: transportation, construction
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.924
(Richardson Highway-construction camps)
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.925
(Richardson Highway-construction)
Keywords: transportation, construction
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B1994.022.729
(Copper River Freight and Freightage Tractor Sleds)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection
B2015.008.584
(Childs Glacier)
Keywords: mountains, glacier, Copper River, Cordova
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.585
{Copper River and the Abecrombie Canyon rapids}
Keywords: Copper River
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.721
320.10-11 [small format panoramic photograph, bird’s eye view of river valley, glacier
terminus in distance, three small tents on beach in foreground, gravel bars in river, Miles
Glacier?]
Keywords: Copper River, Wrangell Mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.722
321.8-9. Childs Gl. From D [small format panoramic photograph, steel bridge beams in
foreground]
Keywords: Childs Glacier, Wrangell Mountains, Million Dollar Bridge, Cordova
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.592
{a group of men walking over the million dollar bridge crossing the Copper River}
Keywords: Copper River, rail road tressel
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.595b
(childs glacier and copper river)
Keywords: Copper River, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.582a
(Childs Glacier Copper River)
Keywords: Cordova, Copper River, river, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.583
{glacier and mountains as seen with reflecting pool in the foreground}
Keywords: mountains, Chugach, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.010.2245
[dock or other structure collapsing into water, mountains in background. Cf. .2247]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.008.586
(Copper River and the Abecrombie Canyon rapids Miles Glacier moraine)
Keywords: Copper River
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.579
(Hydrolic giant driving ore laden gravel and rocks into elevator)(Handy M G 1908)
Keywords: mining, miner, hydrolicing, monitors
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.801
Hubbard Glacier, 1909, fr. Osier Island [view from gravel beach to glacier terminus]
Keywords: Hubbard Glacier, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.582b
(Childs Glacier Copper River)
Keywords: Cordova, Copper River, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.906
[two men in fish scow at dock, Cordova?]
Keywords: harbor, fishing
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.128
4D. Looking up Turnagain Arm, Mile 71 A.N. Ry. C. R. Breck [view down Turnagain Arm south of Girdwood from Alaska Northern Railway Route, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.907
[street scene, with pedestrians on boardwalk past businesses, women with parasols
passing sign for “Cleaning and Pressing,” utility poles at right, mountains in distance]
Keywords: pedestrians, street, buildings, power lines
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.908
[bird’s eye view of street scene with church at right, bell tower at left, utility poles lining
street, Worthington Glacier in distance, Valdez]
Keywords: Valdez, street, mountain, buildings, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.591
(Indian cradle mile 126 Copper River)
Keywords: native alaskan, children
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.909
[small boat harbor in unidentified town, building on bluff above at right][possible Valdez or Codova harbor scene]
Keywords: harbor, boats, fishing
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.800
Handy M. Co., 1908 [photographic postcard. Hydraulic mining operation, idle monitor in
foreground, man panning at left, three men standing next to wide sluice box in background]
Keywords: sluice box, gold mining, prospectors, mining
Collection: B2015.008
B1971.014.023
[from verso] two natives - rowing [two people paddling canoe; 1923 scrapbook or album; copy print]
Collection: B1971.014 CIHS Grube Collection
B1990.014.4.M.26.6431
"U.S. icebreaker in Arctic seas off the coast of Alaska, USA." [aerial view of icebreaker, ice]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.4.M13.23153
A Fishing Vessel headed out to sea. July 1972
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1979.002.Album1.230
Trestle en route to Seward. P. S. Hunt J1868 [view down Alaska Northern Railway/Alaska Railroad tracks from railcar]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.595a
(116_10) {Childs glacier or Miles glacier and Copper River}
Keywords: glacier, Copper River
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.231
Trestle en route to Seward. P. S. Hunt J1869 [view down Alaska Northern Railway/Alaska Railroad tracks from railcar]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.127
2D. Turnagain Arm. C. R. Breck [view down Turnagain Arm from Alaska Northern Railway Route, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.593
(Copper River flooded 3 miles 3 feet deep)
Keywords: Copper River, flooding, rail road
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.125
8C. Looking south A.N.R. track Mile 54 1/2. C. R. Breck [view down railroad tracks over gravelly river near Spencer Glacier, Alaska Northern Railway Route, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.129
R24-5. Abercrombie Rapids, Copper River [view down rocky riverbed, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.205
Beach near Orca canery, Orca Inlet. P. S. Hunt J1920 [distant view of building or dock structure on beach near Orca Cannery, circa 1914]
Keywords: fishing industry, canneries
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1970.073.016
Winter & Pond Large Totem Wrangell
Collection: B1970.073 Minnesota Historical Collection
B1971.014.06
East Cape Eskimo, in Oomiak arriving in Nome, Alaska
Collection: B1971.014 CIHS Grube Collection
B1994.022.727
(Copper River Freight and Freightage Tractor Sleds)
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection