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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Three men are kneeling on the ground working with a saw. The men are wearing hats with mosquito nets on them. Mountains are in the background. Caption with... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of tent camp, with Chugach mountains in background. |
| 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: "Lawrence Larson from International Falls, Minn., and Henry Jensen, Little Fork., Minn., cultivating a community garden at Camp 2. Y... |
| Date: | 07 04 1935 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 08 02 1935 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| 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." |
| 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. |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "Rogers and Post a few minutes after landing." Another man is standing in the background on the left. |
| 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 ... |
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