New in the Archives, March-April 2024
Newly available: HMC-1406-AHS: Catherine Jenne slides; 1961-1963, 1966-1969. 0.06 cubic feet. Slides depicting sites across Alaska, Seattle, and Yellowstone National Park. HMC-1450: Earth Resources Co. Livengood mining records: circa 1971. 0.2 cubic feet. Annotated maps and claim information for the mining area near Livengood. HMC-1451: Alexis Tibor photographs; 2005 May.…
Eating from the Archives 2024: the Cookies edition
Archiving AK Season 3 Episode 1 We are fine: letters from the 1964 earthquake
We’re rebooting our podcast, Archiving AK! With this one, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. In the podcast, Arlene, Becky, and Gwen all read some letters from our holdings from people in Anchorage who wrote family and friends about the events during and…
New in the Archives, January-February 2024
New in the Archives: November – December 2023
New in the Archives: September-October 2023

What happened in September and October? A LOT! Nearly all of our collections are moved off-site in preparation for our renovations (if you missed it, here’s a description of the project). This took about 9 days for our terrific professional moving crew from Worldwide Movers to complete. This took up…
New in the Archives: July-August 2023
So busy: We’ve had the amazing support of a lot of the Access Services workers over the summer as they’ve had time in their busy schedules to help us out with move preparations. One more visible aspect of that work is the exhibit that Zach from Access Services put together…
Good news and temporary inconveniences
New in the Archives: May-June 2023
We need to start with two huge announcements. First up, Becky Butler has joined us for a two year term archivist position as an Assistant Professor. We’re very excited to have her here and she’s definitely hitting the ground running. Not the least because of the second important announcement (sorry…