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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.
B1989.016.1328.5
(Pretty Creek Scenes, Ship Creek) [waterway with lily pads]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1997.003.253
[aerial view of buildings, small village along waterway, possibly river or bay]
Collection: B1997.003
B1997.003.076
[three men on ship deck holding fish, rope; smaller boat in background, waterway]
Collection: B1997.003
B1979.002.Album1.276
R33-6 [scenery, with mountains and unidentified waterway. Portage Bay? railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1998.014.1.2478
"Sticking shutter shots; town near river" [waterway with rocky banks; bridge with concrete abutments; sturctures]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2575
Seward-Kenai Hi-way - Alaska "Aug 14, 1949" [gravel road along outcrop; waterways in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2019.007.713
October 26, 1991 [Bristol Bay; aerial of waterway, possibly Koklong Creek, village, possibly pingo at left]
Collection: B2019.007
B2017.024.3040
July 1983, aerials, villages [shoreline with canvas wall structures, tent, roads, waterways, ponds, tundra, mountain in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.874
L72 Alaskan Hermitage (1946 postcard; photo by E. Tetinek [copy neg, log cabin above bank of waterway, cattails in foreground]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2477
"Sticking shutter shots; town near river" [waterway with stones and concrete reinforcing banks; wire fencing; structures; bridges; laundry hanging on clothesline]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2019.007.710
photographer number 2-T1-5; October 10, 1991 [Bristol Bay; aerial view of waterway, possibly Koklong Creek; bay; communities]
Collection: B2019.007
B1989.016.2141.35
D-46 [group of villagers gathered around a Cessna airplane landed on a frozen lake or waterway, with trees on ridge behind, person at right holding snowshoes]
Keywords: aviation, transportation, villages
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1215
Summer Sunset. Hewitt's 31 / 13. Anchorage Summer Sunset. Hewitt's Photo Shop [midnight sun over waterway with dock. Double caption. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.106a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [winter scene looking across frozen waterway, possibly lake, at mountains; snow on shore; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2019.007.659
photographer's number 2-T2-8 Togiak [processing salmon; woman sitting next to waterway using ulu to process salmon; steel drum (container); bucket; grass]
Collection: B2019.007
B2018.023.106b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: winter scene looking across frozen waterway, possibly lake, at mountains; snow on shore; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2019.007.673
photographer's number 2-T3-3; Togiak; October 26, 1991 [two women at table next to waterway, one holding up cleaned salmon; grass; ulu and fish head on table]
Collection: B2019.007
B1989.016.2141.20
D-20 [Native family standing next to log house, with mother in print parka carrying young boy and father in parka and mukluks holding little girl in print parka, oil barrels behind, frozen waterway in background]
Keywords: houses, residences, villages, clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.65.004
24-5; Fran, Naomi, Pauline & Judy [Three women and child stand on far side of waterway; fence, structures, clothesline with laundry in background; likely August 1939; Ketchikan. Note: irregular lines near bottom of image are fine hairs affixed to emulsion]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.65.004
24-5; Fran, Naomi, Pauline & Judy [Three women and child stand on far side of waterway; fence, structures, clothesline with laundry in background; likely August 1939; Ketchikan. Note: irregular lines near bottom of image are fine hairs affixed to emulsion]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018