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J.J. Bugge

Date: 1935
Description: One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "J.J. Bugge, Minne...
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Family Standing Outside of Tent

Date: 1935
Description: One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "Wisconsin colonis...
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Matanuska Valley Colonists

Date: 05 1935
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 ...
Photograph

Arville Schaleben Photographing Three Children

Date: 1935
Description: Arville Schaleben taking a photograph of three children sitting on a log with a camera on a tripod in the Alaska Colony. Caption on back of print reads: "A...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Arville Schaleben

Date: 1935
Description: Outdoor full-length portrait of Arville Schaleben.
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Arville Schaleben and Prof. Goodman

Date: 1935
Description: Arville Schaleben and Prof. Alpheus Mansfield Goodman talking in front of tent. Arville is holding a camera on his left arm.
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Reading the News Bulletin

Date: 1935
Description: One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "The colonists fin...
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Wisconsin-Michigan Group Lining Up for Final Lottery

Date: 05 23 1935
Description: One of two images under the headline: "Lining Up to Draw for Location of Farms in Alaska." Original caption reads: "A serious business — these members of t...
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Dissatisfied Transients Quit in Alaska

Date: 1935
Description: One image under the headline: "Dissatisfied Transients Quit in Alaska." Original caption reads: "Dissatisfaction at the Matanuska colonization project in A...
Photograph

Arville Schaleben at the Matanuska 50th Anniversary

Date: 06 09 1985
Description: Arville Schaleben at the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Matanuska Valley Colony. Text on back of photograph reads: "Harry M. Campbell, Sr., Arvill...
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Col. O.F. Ohlson and Don Irwin

Date: 05 23 1935
Description: View over heads of crowd towards two men standing above the the crowd. There are tents behind them, and mountains in the distance. Caption could be: "Same ...
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Drilling Well at Camp 8

Date: 1935
Description: Two men working at a well at Camp 8.
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Freight on Railroad Right of Way

Date: 05 1935
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...
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Marceline Venne, Betty and Fritz Hermon

Date: 1935
Description: Marceline Venne, Betty and Fritz Hermon standing outdoors in front of a wire fence. There is a log building in the background.
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Man with Dairy Cow

Date: 1935
Description: A man is standing outdoors holding the rope halter to a cow. He has a matchstick in his mouth.
Photograph

Gov. Parks

Date: 1936
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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Mrs. Agnes Sandvik

Date: 1935
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...
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Mrs. Josephine Lemmon

Date: 1935
Description: Mrs. Josephine Lemmon. Original caption reads: "Ron Sheely (left) Stewart Campbell (right) don't immediately identify woman in between. Don't remember what...
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Final Land Lottery

Date: 1935
Description: Caption reads: "Martin McCormick, East [Tarvas], Mich., draws no. 1 in draw for position for final land lottery."
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Ben Jordan

Date: 1935
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...

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