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Caterpillar Tractor

Date: 1935
Description: A man is driving a caterpillar tractor. A group of men are standing behind him on the right. On the left is part of a building and an agricultural implemen...
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Lester Monroe Sharpening Cross-Cut Saw

Date: 1935
Description: A man is standing and sharpening a saw outdoors. On the left is a coaster wagon. In the background are adults and children standing in front of tents. Capt...
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Unloading a Cow from Railroad Car

Date: 05 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Out comes a new Matanuska valley cow." Caption with print: "The first colony Guernsey were a little hesitant to join the pioneers."
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Funeral of Donald Henry Koenen

Date: 06 22 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "At the funeral of Donald Henry Koenen, 4, of South Range, Wis., son of Henry Koenen, on June 22. Picture shows the crowd comi...
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Henry Jensen and Lawrence Larson Cultivating Garden

Date: 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Lawrence Larson from International Falls, Minn., and Henry Jensen, Little Fork., Minn., cultivating a community garden at Camp 2. Y...
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Woman with Guitar on Stage

Date: 07 04 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Mrs. Walter Fox, one of the colonists, got an encore at the Palmer fourth of July fete by her guitar playing and singing of ballads...
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Bearskin

Date: 08 02 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pakonen, Iron Mountain, Mich., shown with [sic] in their cottage yard with the skin of a bear Pakonen and anot...
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Frank Ring with Calf

Date: 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Frank Ring, Pembine, Wis., carried a calf born on the train out of the boxcar when the second load of cattle arrived for colonists....
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Leaving House in Monaco [sic]

Date: 04 26 1935
Description: Family, including two children standing, a woman carrying another child, and a man who is carrying suitcases, leaving a house.
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Wesley Worden, Dick and Jackie

Date: 04 26 1935
Description: Wesley Worden, Dick and Jackie, and a dog, sitting and standing outdoors at the back of an automobile, which has a Wisconsin license plate. A fence and bar...
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Mrs. Pakonen with Bear Paws

Date: 08 02 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Mrs. Pakonen holding the font[sic] paw of the bear, which weighed about 400 pounds. Pakonen said its hide was nice[sic]. It's again...
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Woman Holding Child

Date: 04 26 1935
Description: A woman is standing outdoors holding a child in her arms. There is a building in the background. Caption with print reads: "Mrs. Martin Soyk and Jimmy, in ...
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Woman Sitting with Dog in Her Lap

Date: 04 26 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "Mrs. Victor Johnson and Nerts." There are buildings in the background. Caption with print reads: "Mrs. Victor Johnson, from W...
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Boarding Train

Date: 1935
Description: People on railroad platform boarding a train.
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Will Rogers in Alaska

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "Rogers talking with Mrs. I.M. Sandvik, colonist from Moose Lake, Minn. In back of Rogers is Stewart Campbell, property custod...
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Community Potato Patch

Date: 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "As far as the eye can see — potatoes. One of the community potato patches planted in the valley by Harry Sears, corporation c...
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Will Rogers in Passenger Seat of Airplane

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "Rogers in the front seat of the plane, waiting for the take-off. He left the valley with a wisecrack on his lips."
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Will Rogers

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Will Rogers in foreground, with two men standing behind him on the right, and the airplane in the background. Caption with negative: "Rogers alighting from...
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Will Rogers

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Rogers joshes with transients, asking, 'Any of you boys from Claremore?'" The airplane is in the background.
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Will Rogers

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Rogers and Post a few minutes after landing." Another man is standing in the background on the left.

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