The Anchorage Museum Atwood Resource Center has been working to identify individuals, places, natural features, and elements of the built environment in historic photographs of rural Alaska villages. In support of this project, the museum hosts a booth at the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) annual convention and attendees are invited to stop by and help identify any unknown people, places, or features in the historic photographs from the Anchorage Museum collection.
The booth will be located at booth 182 inside the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center, during AFN exhibition hall hours.
Since the project's inception, thousands of photographs have been partially or completely identified by Alaska Native Elders and community members. Information shared through the project broadens the context and information of the records held at the museum, to present a more authentic narrative of place and people.
The museum's library and archives, with collections in history, ethnography, science and art of Alaska and the North, includes more than 750,000 photographs, 15,000 books, 800 rare books, 800 maps, auction catalogues, periodicals plus artist files for thousands of Northern artists.
