Archival Research Catalog (ARC)

Search Hints for the Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage)


Color post card. "A crack dog team, Alaska." ARC ID 297825

The National Archives (NARA) Pacific Alaska Region in Anchorage, Alaska, is part of one of the National Archives' 11 Regional Archives. The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) includes descriptions of records held by the Regional Archives. The online catalog allows you to filter your search results by location. The search hints below highlight the Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage) records available in ARC.

ARC is a work in progress, and NARA staff add new descriptions to ARC all the time. Over 68% of the Regional Archives' records are currently described in ARC at the series level. If you do not find the records you are seeking, please contact the Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage) staff.

Featured Topics

The featured topics are a sample of subjects covered by records held by the Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage) and described in ARC. Follow the search instructions, or customize your search with your own keywords.

  1. Go to http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/.
  2. Press the yellow Search button to go to the Basic search screen.
  3. Enter keywords (use some of the sample keywords below or your own) in the Keywords box.
  4. Select the limit results radio button for 2000.
  5. (Optional step:) Select the box marked Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies to retrieve digitized documents and photographs.
  6. Select the Location filter for NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage) .
  7. Press the Go button.
  8. When hits are returned for your search, view the full result of your hit by selecting the Title link.

Sample ARC Search using location filter for NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage).
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Topics Sample ARC Keyword Searches Sample Digitized Documents
Agriculture agricultur% or farm%

Note: The percent sign (%) works as a wildcard character for keyword searching in ARC.
Aviation and Airplanes aviation
Coast Guard U.S. Coast Guard
Construction and Civil Works
  • construction
  • Army and engineers
  • Alaska Road Commission or highway%

Construction of sidewalks on Metlakahtla, Alaska, ARC ID 297997

Court Records
  • district court
  • Judicial District of Alaska
  • civil cases
  • criminal cases
Environment and Natural Resources
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • Pribilof Islands or Pribilof
  • Pribilof and (log or logbook)
  • seals or seal or sealing

  • Bureau of Land Management
  • oil or wells or drilling
  • General Land Office
  • Geological Survey
  • Forest Service

Official Log, St. Paul Island, Alaska, 10/01/1943 - 10/11/1943, ARC ID 297051
Native Americans –
Bureau of Indian Affairs		 Bureau of Indian Affairs
Native Americans –
Sir Henry S. Wellcome Collection, documenting
  • the inhabitants of Metlakatla, British Columbia and Metlakatla, Alaska, ca. 1856 - 1936
  • Tsimshian Indian community life
  • the work of unordained Anglican minister William Duncan
  • Henry S. Wellcome
  • (Metlakatla or Metlakahtla) and Wellcome
  • (missionary or mission or church) and Wellcome

Tsimshian Family, ARC ID 297453

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