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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.
B1966.010.11
4th of July Parade 1919, Anchorage, Alaska. 3.25 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1966.010 CIHS Anderson
B2017.024.2294
Kotzebue, June 1967 [children walking on dirt road; two children ride in wheelbarrow pushed by older child; man walking; structures in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2317
Kotzebue, June 1967 "beluga whale butchering" [people butcher whale on ice; water in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2316
Kotzebue, June 1967 [woman and children watch as beluga whale is butchered on shore ice; open water]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.323.4
48. Blue fox. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [wolverine in trap]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.2293
Kotzebue, June 1967 [woman carrying child in hood of parka and man walk near shore ice; upturned boat on gravel]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2292
Kotzebue, June 1967 [children playing near boat; one child holds a slingshot; structures in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1995.010.4657
[people cleaning fish on beach, Kotzebue dock in background; print date Sep 69]
Collection: B1995.010
B2006.023.6402.jpg
Vi Redington. Camping on Iditarod Trail between Little Sue [Susitna] and Fish Creek. Flat Horn Lake 1953
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2006.023.6402
Vi Redington. Camping on Iditarod Trail between Little Sue [Susitna] and Fish Creek. Flat Horn Lake 1953
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2017.024.2291
Kotzebue, June 1967 [children playing; one possibly holding a slingshot; structures; ice and water in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2323
Kotzebue, June 1967 [butchering beluga whale; shore ice; water. At AFN 2022, woman at center flensing beluga with an ulu identified as Mamie Reich and the woman to the right in headscarf identified as Norma Reich]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Ice, Beluga, Whale, Processing
Collection: B2017.024
B1966.010.13
Photo taken on the bluff at about 3rd and I Streets in Anchorage showing the railroad tracks nad a lighter in Cook Inlet, 1919. 3.25 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1966.010 CIHS Anderson
B1995.010.4621
[Alaska Native man and woman pulling net out of boat on beach, Kotzebue; print date Aug 69]
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.024.3409
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; people; men, women; children collecting packages at gravel landing strip; along coast; northern Alaska]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3411
June 1971 [spring breakup scene; children play on bicycless and wagon on boardwalks near Savoonga Native Store]
Collection: B2017.024
B1985.027.2437
[from verso] Eskimos - hunting; Wien Air Alaska photo by Frank Whaley [two children stand in shallow water holding what is likely a dead seal; shore ice and sea ice in background; one child wears a construction helmet]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1970.019.709
[Man in snowy field, log buildings behind, one with sign for Carlson's?] 2.75 x 4.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection