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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men, women and children ready to disembark ship. Original caption reads: "Determination to make good is written on the faces of the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "You can't get wat... |
| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| Description: | One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "Intimate view of ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | People are gathered at the entrance to the Post Office and General Store. There is a horse tethered to a wooden fence post, and an automobile is parked nea... |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Will Rogers in an Alaskan pea field in Matanuska Valley. |
| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| Description: | One of two images under the headline: "Colonists Play 'Find the Freight'; a Beauty Shop." Original caption reads: "Freight is tossed off anywhere along th... |
| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of people on dock to welcome the pioneers. A woman standing on the dock on the right appears to be holding a camera at her waist. One of a group of i... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One image under the headline: "Dissatisfied Transients Quit in Alaska." Original caption reads: "Dissatisfaction at the Matanuska colonization project in A... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A young girl, Virginia La Rose, age 5, wearing a coat and hat and holding a doll under her right arm, is ready to disembark. She is the daughter of Henry a... |
| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working with the freight thrown off along the railroad right of way. Trunks and crates and barrels are arranged on a tarp in the backg... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| 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." |
| Date: | 06 22 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 04 26 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| 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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