The Auke Bay Laboratory collection, Fisheries and Wildlife Research in Alaska, 1920s-1980s, is a valuable graphic history of the research done by the Auke Bay Laboratory and the earlier Fish and Wildlife Service in the state of Alaska. The collection of approximately 25,000 slides and 7,000 photographs features images from all over Alaska and a few from Seattle and Canada from the 1920s to the 1980s (bulk, 1950s to 1960s.)

Subjects cover a wide range of topics mostly related to fisheries and include Eskimos from the Alaska Peninsula, fish traps and trap keepers from Southeastern Alaska, Bureau of Fisheries fish camps, the 1964 Earthquake in Anchorage, fish canneries and hatcheries many of which no longer exist, totem poles from SE Alaska, fishing vessels, research vessels and aircraft, pioneer aviator Robert Baker, the Alyeska pipe yard at Valdez, wildlife, a wide variety of fish, shellfish, marine mammals and invertebrates, F and WS and Auke Bay Laboratory personnel and early Alaskan pioneers to name a few.