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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.
B1998.003.017
(402 Rampart City)[Several Northern Commercial Co. Buildings situated on an unknown river bank]
Keywords: commercial, industry
Collection: B1998.003
B1984.077.4.028
Nenana ice pool $85,000 [cabin, porch, wash tub, fence, telegraph poles? in distance]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.6.006
[railroad tracks, structure for loading trains? neg. is deteriorating, broken piece of neg obstructs part of image]
Collection: B1984.077
B2000.014.256
(256)(Yukokatat, David Lewis Trading Post, Steamer Sarah July 2 1914)
Collection: B2000.014 Malina
B1984.077.5.028
[plank-sided house with arctic entry, log cabin, fence, dirt road]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.4.024
[two-story cabin, external staircase, telegraph poles? small caings in background]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.5.004
Fairbanks [Samson Hardware Company building, parking lot, trucks, riverbank]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.4.031
[windmill, water tank? fences, cabins, other buildings, dirt road]
Collection: B1984.077
B1979.002.1452
[Spectators on Anchorage street, with American flags. Woodein businesses line street.] 8 x 10 nitrate negative
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1962.001A.131
Chestochena Rail station, Valdez-Eagle Trail. P.S. Hunt, E120 [Chistochina; Telegraph Office] [Ahtna Territory, Tsiis Tl'edze' Caegge (Chistochina]
Keywords: Ahtna, Territory, Tsiis Tl'edze' Caegge, Chistochina, Indigenous, BIPOC, P.S. Hunt, Alaska, Alaskan, Chestochena, Rail station, Railroad, Veldez Eagle, Trail, Clearing, Log building, Building, Cabin, Mountain, Man
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1998.003.016
(399 Fort Hamlin)[Several Northern Commercial Co buildings situated on the bank of an unknown river]
Keywords: commercial, industry, outpost
Collection: B1998.003
B1989.016.1066.5
P-279. Hewitt's [side view of Palmer School, circa Sept. 1936?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album1.59
Wagon and RR bridge, Resurrection River. Eugene Underwood [Alaska Northern Railway tracks over long low trestle bridge across riverbed, mountains in distance, Seward, railroad exploration, circa 1914. original image blurry]
Keywords: transportation, Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1994.009.911.912
[laboratory at Kalakaket site (Galena) [descriptions on verso have been cut partway off; White Alice]
Collection: B1994.009 Ray
B1989.016.2143.50
96. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Valley at Palmer) [dirt road at left in foreground running past cultivated field, homestead buildings in middle ground, mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Keywords: agriculture, houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2000.003.gelles.12a
July 1921 [man on parade float in Anchorage, possibly Fourth of July, Gus Gelles? From Legends & Legacies by Bagoy]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B2000.003
B1972.046.153
1434. Eskimos EA Hegg {Native woman with her three children in a photographers studio posing for a portrait}
Keywords: children, mother
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B1989.016.2143.32
60. Palmer, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Palmer Headquarters) [men and women, one woman dressed as nurse, standing next to automobiles parked by walled tents and log building flying American flag, mountains in distance, Matanuska Colony]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection