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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.
B2022.001.041
Alice Hemphill, seated, Murphy Evans [sticky note on back: Mayfield’s Parents]
Keywords: Mayfield Evans, BIPOC, Black Alaskans, Alaskans, African Americans, African American families, Family, Parents, Alice Hemphill, Murphy Evans, Portrait, Studio portrait
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B1991.21.3
Print from a 4x5 copy negative. A portrait of the Oscar Anderson family, this iuncludes three children and their parents. Photographed in the studio of James and Bushnell.
Keywords: portrait, mother, father, children, studio
Collection: B1991.021
B1973.079.122
[Boy and possibly his parents standing on the dock in St Michael. The boy has a fishing pole and several fish on a stringer that he is holding up for the photographer][negative is out of focus]
Keywords: fishing, docks, wharf
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B2009.017.1985.06.23
“Hey Dad, let’s go down to Campbell Creek and catch some ... Diseases” ©1985 Sunday June 23, 1985 [parent finishing child’s sentence]
Collection: B2009.017
B1998.014.1.4638
(Barter Island misc Vern's )[A native Alaskan family standing in the door way dressed in fur parkas with hooded ruff both parents are each holding a book possibly a bible or hymnal]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2000.013A.s10.020
[from verso] "Jimmy John" [baby is held up by person on edge of image; bookcases in background; 9/12/1977 newsletter identifies John and parents Marge Larsen and Jimmie John, Sr, residents of Chefornak]
Collection: B2000.013A