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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.
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B1991.048.186
[men standing next to wood plank buildings]
Collection: B1991.048 Dr_ H_E_ Auringer Collection
B1989.016.334.1
Aerial of downtown Anchorage [circa 1939?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1993.012.38
Nome [Alaska Native woman wearing mukluks and cloth parka cover over fur parka standing on railroad tracks, pier in background]
Keywords: clothing, transportation
Collection: B1993.012 Lou & Gilbert Adamec Collection
B1989.016.426.2
Mt. McKinley, Alaska, Sydney Laurence [Mt. McKinley Reflections. copy neg.]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.251
D-79. The ivory carver using a bow drill, frame and drill made of seal rib. Nome. [George Dale?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.S1450.47
NCL trip: Father Edward & Hooper Bay native children, 8/12/53 [posed on steps of church]
Keywords: religion
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2014.027.35
#3-78. Inuit male spectator, Iditarod 1978, Nancy Lake, Alaska [portrait of Alaska Native man wearing fleece-lined hat with earflaps, blue down jacket, and plaid shirt. Cf. .183. At AFN 2018, tentatively identified as Spike or Ralph Willoya] [Inupiaq Territory, Sitnasuaq (Nome). At AFN 2022, man identified as Spike Willoya. Location identified as Nome area.]
Keywords: Alaska, Alaskan, Indigenous, BIPOC, Iditarod, Sled dog race, Race, Winter, Snow, Inupiaq, Territory, Inupiat, Sitnasuaq, Nome, Inuit, Man, Spectator, Nancy Lake, Portrait, Hat, Jacket, Outerwear, Plaid shirt, Spike Willoya
Collection: B2014.027
B2015.007.61
[two young Alaska Native women wearing Western style clothing posed next to wooden building in winter]
Collection: B2015.007
B1973.079.141
[unknown mountainous and rocky coastline as seen from the rail of a vessel sailing offshore][negative cracked]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B2012.23.01
Tintype portrait of a man. circa 1870-1890. 1 of two tintype portraits in the collection
Keywords: Tintype, portrait
Collection: B2012.023
B2015.007.125
[village as seen from water, tent on beach, buildings nad pine trees on low bluff]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.14
[group posed outdoors next to building, with elder woman wearing fur parka and eyeglasses, two young women wearing squirrel fur parkas, and two young girls wearing cloth parkas, ladder against log building at left and another in background]
Keywords: clothing, residences
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.57
[Alaska Native man and woman posed next to large wood building, woman wearing spotted reindeer fur parka with walrus tusk gussets over print dress, man wearing Western style clothing, including possibly military jacket, and mukluks]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.68
[large group of Alaska Native women on boardwalk next to large wooden building, some wearing traditional clothing and some wearing Western style clothing, water in distance]
Collection: B2015.007
B2017.029.1838
[portrait of young Alaska Native girl wearing print parka with fur ruff; print date Mar 79]
Collection: B2017.029
B2015.014.138
[two Alaska Native men standing on barge docked at gravel beach, pelts or sacks on barge, tug on far side of barge, fishing boat or riverboat in background, low hills in distance. Paper with Velox stamp]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B2015.014
B2015.014.149
[photographic postcard. man, possibly pilot, standing next to three Alaska Native women posed by single engine airplane, two women wearing squirrel parka with walrus tusk gussets and knitted cap, one wearing reindeer parka and Western style wool hat]
Keywords: aviation, clothing
Collection: B2015.014
B2019.003.105
Breakup [scenic of water filled with ice chunks. Double exposure]
Collection: B2019.003
B1964.001.095
A Dawson dance hall [View of men and women dancing at dance hall in Dawson, Yukon Territory. From verso: "Florodora." Postcard (color). Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 4 3/8"]
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B1995.010.267
[view down railroad track to small building along Turnagain Arm]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, transportation
Collection: B1995.010
B2014.012.20
Salmon cannery of Alaska Fishermens Packing Co., Nushagak, Alaska [building complex as seen from water line]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B2014.012
B2015.022.123
c. Lomen Bos. Nome [portait of smiling Alaska Native girl wearing fur parka with walrus-tusk gussets and mukluks. Identified on other versions of image as "Mukpie - Point Barrow Eskimo Girl. Youngest person aboard, and one of the survivors of the S.S. Karluk." Postcard]
Collection: B2015.022
B1995.014.31.8
F-E Co. 1942 [wash plant, Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B2014.009.2
Kotzebue 1957 [man wearing rubber boots, brimmed hat and zippered jacket sitting on bench outside building next to woodpile]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.009
B1991.046.25
Scammon Bay, 7/51 [six Alaska Native children posed in front of house, fish net propped against wall at right, fish trap on roof]
Collection: B1991.046
B1995.010.3096
[George and unidentified woman outside school building in Fort Yukon, Phyllis McCutcheon with camera crouching down to take photograph, signs for “U.S. Native Service School” and “Office of Indian Affairs, Speak English and Talk to the World”]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.4899
[young Alaska Native girl wearing Western style clothing, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.014.89.12
[two surveyors at work, mountain in background, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B2005.013.361
Eskimo on “Health,” “Explorer” in background, 7/1951 [view from ship deck of group of Alaska Native women and one man in small boat tied to ship]
Collection: B2005.013
B2014.019.388
#228. Dogs and kids, Ruby, Alaska. Northern Color Film Co., Robert A. Hall, Moose Pass [Alaska Native children and puppies posed on sled frame in winter, fish rack, cache, and log cabin in background]
Keywords: transportation, animals
Collection: B2014.019
B2015.007.5
[two Alaska Native women posed with young girl outdoors next to log building, woman at left wearing pearl necklace, all three wearing Western style clothing. Original print damaged]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.007.58
[group portrait of large Alaska Native family posed in sparsely wooded area in winter]
Collection: B2015.007
B2015.011.74
735. Photo by E. Wolf, Juneau, Alaska [Alaska Native women selling crafts along street, Abbott & Costello movie poster in background]
Keywords: tourism, arts
Collection: B2015.011
B2017.029.2978
[Tlingit woman in regalia and holding paddle, Native Spirit Festival; print date Jun 84]
Collection: B2017.029
B2017.029.2963
[Alaska Native dance group and drummers on lawn, Native Spirit Festival; print date Jun 84]
Collection: B2017.029
B1980.104.10
Headquarters, Seventeenth Naval District, Kodiak, Alaska--Katmai's west wall (center foreground) and Katmai Lake, which fills the crater, are shown in this Navy picture taken in September of 1952.
Collection: B1980.104
B1991.046.15
Hooper Bay, 7/51 [Schaver posed outdoors holding medical kit, Alaska Native man standing at right]
Collection: B1991.046