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| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "Immediately after Post and Rogers landed with Pilot Chet McLean of Anchorage, with Post in the front seat with the pilot. Chief Pil... |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "The cottage of Harry Nichols, completed only a few weeks before the picture was snapped, quickly took on an appearance of domestic ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men are sitting along a fence, and a large dog is lying near them. There is a building in the background. Caption on back of print reads: "May/June 103... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Jack Allman was the Matanuska Valley Pioneer publisher and editor. Handwritten on back of print: "Jack Allman, Matanaska Editor, a handsoome, largely self ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Caption on back reads: "Gov. Parks. Colony day 1936. Ruth Dearmond behind him (right)." There is a child standing in the foreground, and many people are ga... |
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| Description: | View towards Palmer, with commercial buildings, including the Wasilla Road House, and the K.T. Co. Automobiles are parked along the edge of the street, and... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption handwritten on back reads: "vegetable display at colony's first fair. NOT my picture, obviously, but Hewitt's of Anchorage, who was first rate." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Stewart Campbell (left) and John Givens, VIPs in Matanuska Colony administration. Campbell was property manager; Givens an archite... |
| Date: | 06 03 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Harold Davis, who had bad experience in Alaska and became influential as a colonist among the pioneers." He is standing outdoors, ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men are working outdoors. The man on the left with a carpenter's apron is Victor Johnson. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Mrs. Agnes Sandvik (and children) a leader in the colony, both in early protest and early and subsequent progress. Caption with ne... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A group of men are working on straightening railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of men and women standing in front of a log building. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Josephine Lemmon. Original caption reads: "Ron Sheely (left) Stewart Campbell (right) don't immediately identify woman in between. Don't remember what... |
| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Matanuska. A pretty good horse takes its first steps into the life as a pioneer. It's colonist Henry Rossiter leading one of stall... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Martin McCormick, East [Tarvas], Mich., draws no. 1 in draw for position for final land lottery." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of trucks, mattresses, and tents. There is a sign that reads: "Valley City" In front of a group of tents. Caption reads: "Boom city - mattres... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "A team of colony horses, feeding at a grain drill against a giant pile of baled hay." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Ben Jordan (tallest), steward at construction division mess, and the boys who feed me." A man standing on the right is holding a c... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Building an empire? The sawmill breaks down and what a crowd of onlookers to 'supervise' repairs." |
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