Artifacts:

• photos of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway and its $23 million construction from 1907-1911
• copper mining, processing, and weighing tools
• tram buckets and mining equipment
• photos of the mines, Kennecott mill town, and their construction
• first aid, safety, and power equipment used by miners and mill workers
• personal effects of miners and mill workers
• timecards, switch list, and other business documents from Kennecott and McCarthy
• Kennecott Hospital relics and photos
• photos and artifacts about life in McCarthy; Fourth of July paraphernalia
• cooking appliances, utensils and artifacts from homes in McCarthy and Kennecott
• women’s clothing, china, and sewing machines
• McCarthy Golden Saloon cash register
• panoramic landscape photos by J.P. Hubrick
• “McCarthy Solstice” mural quilt crafted by Maria Shell and including community member quilt squares (2013)

 Papers:

• Bertha Ramer Book (former teacher at Kennecott)
• bush pilot Harold Gilliam of Gilliam Airways
• Margaret Keenan Harris (abolitionist, suffragist, McCarthy teacher)
• Dora Keen (early 20^th century mountain climber and adventurer, first to summit Mt. Blackburn in 1912)
• James McCarthy, namesake of the town
• Ocha Potter (first white woman to float the Copper River and first to make the trip on the CR&NW Railway)
• information on the bush pilots of the Wrangells
• various other diaries, journals, letters, and business correspondence of historic residents

Documents & Records:

• historic news from The Chitina Leader, Katalia Herald, McCarthy Weekly, and Our Town, from 1908 on
• Wrangell St. Elias News archive
• National Geographic Magazine 1924-1928
• historic editions of Alaska Geographic and Alaska Sportsman magazines
• Kate Kennedy arrest records
• historic and current maps

Books (alphabetical by author last name):

• 1973 Report of the Wrangell Mountain Project
• Report of an Expedition to the Copper, Tanana, and Koyukak Rivers in the Territory of Alaska: A Reprint of Lt. Henry Allen’s 1885 Journal (2005)
• Picture Journeys in Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias, America’s Largest National Park by George Herben (1997)
• The Copper Spike by Lone E. Janson (1975)
• Mudhole Smith: Alaska Flier by Lone Janson (1981)
• Kennecott Kids: Interviews with the Children of Kennecott, Vols. 1 and 2
• Historic McCarthy by M.J. Kirchoff
• Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia (2013)
• Mining in Alaska’s Past, Alaska Division of Parks Office of History and Archeaeology Publication 27 (1980)
• National Park Service Alaska Park Science books
• Iron Rails to Alaskan Copper: The Epic Triumph of Erastus Corning Hawkins by Alfred O. Quinn (1995)
• Tunnel Vision: The Life of a Copper Prospector in the Nizina River Country by Katherine Ringsmuth (2012)
• A Death Decoded: Robert Kennicott and the Alaska Telegraph by Sandra Spatz Schlactmeyer (2010)
• Alaska Expedition: Marine Life Solidarity by James P. Sweeney (2011)
• The List by James P. Sweeney (2010)
• Alaska’s First Homegrown Millionaire: Life and Times of Cap Lathrop by Elizabeth A. Tower (2006)
• Alaska’s Homegrown Governor: A Biography of William A. Egan by Elizabeth A. Tower (2003)
• Big Mike Henry, Irish Prince of the Iron Trails: Builder of the White Pass and Yukon and Copper River Northwestern Railways, by Elizabeth A. Tower, 2003
• Ghosts of Kennecott: The Story of Stephen A. Birch by Elizabeth A. Tower (2003)
• Icebound Empire: Industry and Politics on the Last Frontier, 1898-1938 by Elizabeth A. Tower (1996)
• The Alaska Gold Rush by David B. Wharton (1972)
• dozens of other books