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| Date: | 04 10 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the farm. Original caption reads, in part: "A loud wail? is arising from the Matanuska Valley of Alaska colonists because the government i... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Arville Schaleben and Prof. Alpheus Mansfield Goodman talking in front of tent. Arville is holding a camera on his left arm. |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Will Rogers in an Alaskan pea field in Matanuska Valley. |
| 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: "Here is one of th... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A vehicle or tractor on a trailer in front of a tent with a sign for "Matanuska Valley Pioneer, Jack Allman, Publisher • Editor." Two men and a dog are sta... |
| Date: | 05 31 1935 |
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| Description: | View over fence towards cows in a corral. Men are standing on and near the fence in the background. Two horses are in the field just beyond the cows among ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man is standing outdoors holding the rope halter to a cow. He has a matchstick in his mouth. |
| 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: | Caption with negative: "Lawrence Larson from International Falls, Minn., and Henry Jensen, Little Fork., Minn., cultivating a community garden at Camp 2. Y... |
| 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Cabbage growing outdoors. Caption reads: "Anchorage, Alaska." |
| 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: "A team of colony horses, feeding at a grain drill against a giant pile of baled hay." |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Hayfield, with woods and the Chugach Mountains in the distance. |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | View across field towards an abandoned barn. |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Fresh Starts Farms LLC Greenhouse sign on the flatbed of a truck parked in a field. |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Items on display on a back porch of the Colony House Museum. One of the items on display is a McCormick-Deering Cream Separator. |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Man driving a tractor in a field, with the Chugach Mountains in the distance. |
| Date: | 05 2019 |
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| Description: | View of the vegetable garden at a vegetable farm outside of Palmer. There is a barn and a log structure in the background. |
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