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| 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: | 06 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of. Original caption on AP print reads: "Matanuska Valley, Alaska, Sept. 15--Twentieth Century Pioneers--Breaking a wilderness to the purposes ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Arville Schaleben standing next to an automobile with a camera over his shoulder, a screwdriver in his right hand, and a cigarette in his left hand. A man ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Arville is crouching at the edge of a stream. He has a camera case over his shoulder. Self-portrait. Caption on print reads: "A self-photo. Correspondent A... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One of two images under the headline: "Wives of Alaskan Pioneers Kept Busy Sewing, Making Tent Homes Neat and Clean." Original caption reads: "... a row of... |
| Date: | 06 09 1985 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 23 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people on the platform at the railroad station. Caption with negative reads: "Alaska's tourist season at height — McKinley park route tour... |
| Date: | 05 23 1935 |
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| 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 ... |
| 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: | 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: "The cottage of Harry Nichols, completed only a few weeks before the picture was snapped, quickly took on an appearance of domestic ... |
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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: | Original caption reads: "'Commissary supplies are adequate,' said Purchasing agent Ed Cronin (extreme left) of the corporation for the news reel (march of ... |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Hayfield, with woods and the Chugach Mountains in the distance. |
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