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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.
B1962.001A.114
Marine light in Valdez Narrows, Alaska. P.S. Hunt, E1157 [Lighthouses]
Keywords: Marine light, Lighthouses, Valdez Narrows, Waterways
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B2009.017.1992.05.10
Joe Hazelwood Accepts teaching job at mariners college
Keywords: comics, exxon valdez, evos, Anchorage Daily News, political, cartoons
Collection: B2009.017
B1990.014.5.Scn.18.45
Reflection on ice - near Portage March 1962 Marine View
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1990.014.004.16924
(Loaded tanker departs berth NR three Valdez marine terminal)(16924)
Keywords: pipeline, prince william sound, valdez, tanker, shipping, transportation, chugach mountains
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.148.2
(catastrophe)(April 18, 1946)(Photo for Anchorage Times on marine strike)(Marine hamming it up)(Anchorage Historical)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2016.019.1.05f.08916.01
Harbor Seals in Kenai Fjords, Southcentral Alaska [Animals - Marine Life - Seals], 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Animals, Marine Life, Seals, Harbor Seals
Collection: B2016.019
B1990.014.2018.1.7.004
Marine view [man aboard ship looking over water toward shore, boats; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.7.004
Marine view [man aboard ship looking over water toward shore, boats; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2016.019.1.05e.06524.37
Starfish in China Poot Bay near Homer, Alaska [Animals - Marine Life - General], 1988
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Animals, Marine Life, Starfish, China Poot Bay
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.1.05e.08571.28
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in Prince Wm. Sound, Alaska [Animals - Marine Life - Otters], 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Animals, Marine Life, Otters, Sea otters
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.1.05f.08919.04
Steller Sea Lions in Kenai Fjords, Southcentral Alaska [Animals - Marine Life - Sea Lions], 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Animals, Marine Life, Sea Lions, Steller Sea Lions
Collection: B2016.019
B1998.014.1.1754
(T76 Ellis air Lines, Ketchikan air taxi) [dock scene with automobiles, Northern Commercial Co. "Caterpillar sales, service, marine engines, electric sets, Packard gasoline marine engines," "Titan timber saws," structures]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1965.018.344
Mining with Long Tom on Sub Marine Beach, Nome, Alaska, HGK [copy neg, Long Tom mining]
Collection: B1965.018 Fred Henton
B2016.019.1.05e.08666.32
Inertidal life, Lower Herring Bay, Prince Wm. Sound, AK [Animals - Marine Life - General], 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Animals, Marine Life, Herring Bay, Prince William Sound
Collection: B2016.019
B2016.019.1.05f.08520.11
Sea lions on rocks, The Needle, Prince William Sound, AK [Animals - Marine Life - Sea Lions], 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Animals, Marine Life, Sea Lions
Collection: B2016.019
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.148.1
(catastrophe)(April 18, 1946)(Photo for Anchorage Times on marine strike)(Marine hamming it up)(Anchorage Historical){woman holding a long knife against the top of a can}
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2019.007.1139
May 23, 1990 Southeast Ferries [view of dock possibly used by Alaska Marine Highway System; boats; mountains in distance]
Collection: B2019.007
B1995.010.5503
[Alaska Marine Highway ferry, possibly Taku, at dock, Russian Orthodox cross in cemetery in foreground; print date Dec 75]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.4560
[waterfront as seen from ship, ferry dock in center, lifebuoy of Alaska Marine Highway ferry Malaspina in foreground; print date Sep 68]
Collection: B1995.010
B1990.014.2018.1.136.001
46-1 May 1940; Plus x 40 - 24; DK 20; Marine views - oil barge - Neptune & Venus [storage tank]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.136.005
46-1 May 1940; Plus x 40 - 24; DK 20; Marine views - oil barge - Neptune & Venus [wood vessel with decorated prow; anchor]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.136.006
46-1 May 1940; Plus x 40 - 24; DK 20; Marine views - oil barge - Neptune & Venus [wood vessel with decorated prow at dock; anchor]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.136.004
46-1 May 1940; Plus x 40 - 24; DK 20; Marine views - oil barge - Neptune & Venus [fishing vessel on water; mountains, shore, structures in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2019.007.1143
May 23, 1990 Southeast ferries [view of cove or bay near ferry terminal (see .1131); Alaska Marine Highway System; possible fish pens; structure along shore in distance]
Collection: B2019.007
B1990.014.2018.1.136.003
46-1 May 1940; Plus x 40 - 24; DK 20; Marine views - oil barge - Neptune & Venus [wood vessel with decorated prow; anchor; fishing vessels in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2019.007.1131
May 23, 1990; photographer number 2-5-1; Southeast Ferry [Alaska Marine Highway System; possibly M/V Aurora at dock; structures at left background; ferry terminal; road; automobiles; mountains]
Collection: B2019.007
B1993.019.019
Vera and family [three women standing on shore with Marine Airways, Juneau, Alaska; Fairchild Model 71 aircraft on floats in background; child, boat, structures built on pilings in right background; circa mid-1930s]
Collection: B1993.019 Liebel
B1990.014.2018.1.136.002
46-1 May 1940; Plus x 40 - 24; DK 20; Marine views - oil barge - Neptune & Venus [crew members aboard the Venus; likely a longline fishing vessel; mountains, short, structures in background]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.67.001
25-2; tourist taking pictures [Mission Street Ketchikan street scene with man in center of plank street taking photographs; Ingersoll Hotel at left; "Welcome Visitors" sign spanning street; woman standing near Marine Hotel at right; store at far right with sign advertising Alaska Sportsman, scale and ball near entrance; automobiles, one with plate B43; looking inland from near docks; likely 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.67.001
25-2; tourist taking pictures [Mission Street Ketchikan street scene with man in center of plank street taking photographs; Ingersoll Hotel at left; "Welcome Visitors" sign spanning street; woman standing near Marine Hotel at right; store at far right with sign advertising Alaska Sportsman, scale and ball near entrance; automobiles, one with plate B43; looking inland from near docks; likely 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.1782
{T97 Ketchikan, street scene as seen from deck of ship tied to dock (Deck of "Alaska)} [people walking on sidewalks, boardwalk street; Hotel Ingersoll, Rotary International Club Ketchikan welcome sign; possibly Pan American World Airways sign; clock, Marine Hotel, Victor Fur (?) shop, parking meters dented automobile missing spare tire parked at right; figure seen through open hotel window at left]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.2018.1.73.003
28-1 Sept. 1939 Pan X 32-20 Dev in DK 20-28 min @ 65 degrees Far; Bob Ellis' plane [Ellis Air Transport floatplane Waco YKS-6 with U.S. Mail on tail; NC-16210 taxiing toward docks; boats, RELIANCE; Nordby Supply Co. building includes signs for Trollers, Supplies, Marine Hardware, Groceries; Ellis Transport building on far left; structures; domiciles in background; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.73.003
28-1 Sept. 1939 Pan X 32-20 Dev in DK 20-28 min @ 65 degrees Far; Bob Ellis' plane [Ellis Air Transport floatplane Waco YKS-6 with U.S. Mail on tail; NC-16210 taxiing toward docks; boats, RELIANCE; Nordby Supply Co. building includes signs for Trollers, Supplies, Marine Hardware, Groceries; Ellis Transport building on far left; structures; domiciles in background; Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2024.001.134
“Rock Slide, Eklutna Sep 68” [view from the side at a distance from an active rockslide, river and trees in the foreground. Similar to .131. Eklutna, Dena’ina territory, September 1968]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Eklutna, Mountain, Rockslide, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2024.001.135
“Rockslide Seward Hiway. Parker, John, 1956” [one youth, possibly identified as John Parker, standing on top of a large rockslide covering Seward Highway. See also .306-.308. Dena’ina territory, 1956]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Seward Highway, Rockslide, John Parker, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs