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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.
B2006.023.4921.jpg
[Joe Redington Sr. on sled runners with Santa in basket]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 4000-5000
B2006.023.4921
[Joe Redington Sr. on sled runners with Santa in basket]
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2006.023.5074.jpg
Joe Redington Sr. on sled runners with Santa in basket at mall.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 5001-5999
B2006.023.5074
Joe Redington Sr. on sled runners with Santa in basket at mall.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B1996.009.09full
A runner is sent to the homes of the crew and as he stands at the entrance on tope of the innie or house he shouts his orders.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B1997.019.16full
30 foot pup whale and sends a runner through the village to carry the news, and the natives
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B1989.016.630
D-48. Repairing ivory sled runners. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Solomon, Alaska) [Alaska Native man in shop using tools]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.370
George clearing the ice for the ice plow [George on frozen river, using wooden push blade, sled on runners in background. cf. .337-338]
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.953
A winter outing in Alaska. 3A396, LHP [photographic postcard. Dog team on winter trail,
two women and child in sled basket, musher on runners, photographer’s shadow in
foreground]
Keywords: winter, dogs, mushing
Collection: B2015.008
B1991.011.598
"Newtok; Mar 60 dupe; Betty Ann Tom w/floats" [winter scene; woman wearing parka poses with two seal flats; child at right; structures in background; sled runners at lower left]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2015.009.7
Hazel, Helen, Daddy, Lugie our dog. They brought water and supplies by dog sled. Lugie is the dog [two young girls in sled basket, man on runners, large dog pulling sled, house in background]
Collection: B2015.009
B1995.004.2
Rondy Manager Tom Bevers with the 1941 queen candidates Patsy Chisholm (later named queen), Vivian Fisher (Chevillon), Wanda Gelles (Griffin) (Runner-up), Roberta Lee and Virginia "Ginger" Schodde Feb. 4, 1941
Collection: B1995.004
B1998.014.1.1130
O19 Johnny Allan [sic], winner of manny [sic] Alaskan Dog Derbys [sic]; 1946 postcard) (Johnny Allen, musher, poses at dog sled runners; fur hat; mukluks with geometric trim including swastikas, ice palace in background; Fairbanks; winter]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.Album1.267
R31-1. Headquarters [dog team pulling sled over bare ground, one man in basket and one on runners, another man watching team, walled tent in background, building and tall birch or cottonwood trees at right, near mouth of Ship Creek, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.292
R30-5. Ship Creek [dog team pulling sled over bare ground, one man in basket and another on runners, walled tent in center background, wagon at left, tall birch or cottonwood at right, Cook Inlet in distance, railroad exploration, circa 1914. Original print torn]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Anchorage
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1