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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.
B1995.014.108.5
[small mining operation in creek, with sluice box and wash basin]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.103.9
[several men standing in sluice box with paddles, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.118.10
[sluice box, gold pan, and other equipment at small mining operation on creek]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.118.9
[sluice box, gold pan, and other equipment at small mining operation on creek]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.10
[man working sluice box on mining plant, Willow Creek near Marshall]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.111.4
[man with gold pan standing in sluice box, mining operation, Willow Creek?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.11
[two men working sluice box on mining plant, Willow Creek near Marshall]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.15
[four men working sluice box on mining plant, Willow Creek near Marshall]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.16
[three men working sluice box on mining plant, Willow Creek near Marshall]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.103.10
[several men standing in sluice box with paddles, possibly cleaning riffles, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1995.014
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
B1995.014.102.13
[man wearing mosquito netting standing on end of sluice box, drag line in background, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.25.7
F-E Co. 1942 [view down long sluice box at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.25.8
F-E Co. 1942 [view down long sluice box at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.27.5
F-E Co. 1942 [view down long sluice box at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.27.6
F-E Co. 1942 [view down long sluice box at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.28.16
F-E Co. 1942 [two miners working sluice box at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.28.12
F-E Co. 1942 [view down wash plant sluice box at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.123.14
Willow Creek, 1946 [bird's eye view of man working at sluice box in pit at mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.124.1
Willow Creek, 1946 [bird's eye view of man working at sluice box in pit at mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.124.2
Willow Creek, 1946 [bird's eye view of man working at sluice box in pit at mining operation, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.50.7
Army fishing, food for dogs [bird's eye view of soldiers working slime line cleaning fish, sluice boxes set up to move fish between wooden boxes, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.50.8
Army fishing, food for dogs [bird's eye view of soldiers working slime line cleaning fish, sluice boxes set up to move fish between wooden boxes, Adak]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1995.014
B2018.023.060a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “58” “…ld Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Day Creek, Nome, Alaska” [likely Wild Goose Co.; miners at sluice boxes, water, equipment; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B1995.014.31.4
F-E Co. 1942 [bird's eye view of mining operation, with crane, drag line, sluice box, and wash plant amid tailings piles]
Collection: B1995.014
B2018.023.060b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “58” “…ld Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Day Creek, Nome, Alaska” [verso of slide: likely Wild Goose Co.; miners at sluice boxes, water, equipment; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B1995.014.121.2
F-E Co., Fairbanks, 1942 [two workers with drilling apparatus, small sluice box and gold pan in foreground, Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B1980.108.8
Partridge Photo Treadwall's Gold Mine Opp. Post Office Portland Or (4x5 copy neg) [A man standing amongst multiple sluice boxes inside a large building]
Keywords: mining, industry
Collection: B1980.108 Lockwood Collection
B1995.014.108.9
Land dredge, Lars Ostness and Jim Johnson, Willow Creek near Marshall, 1950s [three men standing next to mining plant, one man holding pan, one man working sluice box]
Collection: B1995.014