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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.
B1989.016.1938
Transport Henderson. G.L. Johnson, Anchorage, Alaska [U.S.S. Henderson underway]
Keywords: ships
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.049.74
[musicians on deck of ship, including guitars and banjo, possibly the U.S.S. Boxer?]
Keywords: transportation, ships, musical instruments
Collection: B2013.049 Kane
B2014.012.42
U.S.S. "Rush", Nushagak, Alaska, July 1910 [ship in bay, probably U.S. Revenue Cutter Rush (1885), topsail schooner decommissioned in 1913]
Keywords: boats, transportation
Collection: B2014.012
B2008.004.001
Bunch of Alaskans. Some of the crew with a few of the Alaskan Eskimo. Bjorkman [Mattoi?] [This photo was taken during the 1888 summer cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis. Crewmen and Natives seated on the ground.]
Collection: B2008.004 Bjorkman Collection
B1989.016.2316.2
(Bob Hall's planes) [modern copy neg of album page holding six photographs of airplanes and ships labeled "The U.S.S. Gannet and Two Amphibian Planes by Bob Hall Moose Pass" and "1929 Surveyed the Tongass Forest"]
Keywords: aviation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.021.15
Perry Island, Bogosloff Group, rose in Bering Sea, spring 1906. 5718, F.H. Nowell by permission of Dr. Ebert U.S.S. Perry [five men in uniform standing on beach, two holding rifles, steaming volcanic rock across water in background, Bogoslof Group. Tinted]
Collection: B2017.021