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McMurchie Brothers in Cornfield

Date: 1935
Description: The McMurchie brothers working with a Farmall F-20(?) tractor, an International truck, and an ensilage cutter in a 250 acre cornfield on their 880 acre far...
Print

Greeting For the Holiday Season

Date: 1935
Description: Holiday card with a silhouette image of a family gathered around their Christmas tree. The father is lighting the candles. The text "Greetings For The Holi...
Manuscript

Brundage Family Resettlement

Date: 1935
Description: Page 1 of textual description of Brundage family and their resettlement from poor farmland to land better suited to agriculture.
Manuscript

Brundage Family Resettlement

Date: 1935
Description: Page 2 of textual description of Brundage family and their resettlement from poor farmland to land better suited to agriculture.
Manuscript

Walter Brundage

Date: 1935
Description: Page 1 of a description of the resettlement of Walter Brundage from poor farmland owned by Dr. Roach to land better suited to agriculture owned by Pat Glea...
Manuscript

Walter Brundage

Date: 1935
Description: Page 2 of a description of the resettlement of Walter Brundage from poor farmland owned by Dr. Roach to land better suited to agriculture owned by Pat Glea...
Photograph

Brundage Family in Their Old Home

Date: 1935
Description: Portrait of the Brundage family in their old log cabin home. They are, left to right, standing: Robert (10), Walter, Thelma, Bruce (7), and seated: Victor ...
Photograph

New Brundage Home

Date: 1935
Description: Brundage family in their new home after resettlement with assistance of United States Resettlement Administration. From left to right: Walter, Marvin (4), ...
Photograph

A Day at the Beach

Date: 1935
Description: A man and his wife are wearing swimming suits and posing sitting on the beach. Each of them is holding a small child in their laps. People are standing and...
Photograph

At the Boathouse

Date: 1935
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder posing in front of the original boathouse of Villa Henrietta on Pine Lake. They are, from left,...
Photograph

Two Women

Date: 1935
Description: Two well-dressed women, possibly Amelia Brumder Mayer, left, and Ida Brumder Merker, right, sitting in easy chairs in the home of their younger brother, He...
Photograph

Tunnel Tree

Date: 1935
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder are posing on and near the family's 1935 Oldsmobile sedan, which is parked in a tunnel built th...
Photograph

El Capitan

Date: 1935
Description: The photographer's wife, Margaret Bouer Brumder, is sitting on a low stone wall at an overlook in Yosemite National Park, with the granite formation El Cap...
Book or Pamphlet

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...
Photograph

Baby William Arthur Rumsey

Date: 1935
Description: Baby William Arthur Rumsey is sitting in the lap of an unknown man, possibly a relative. The two are making eye contact. Caption reads: "William Arthur Rum...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Families Leaving from Colony

Date: 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "Families leaving from colony -- Shown on platform at Matanuska village, where caught train for Seward. Otto Fisher family shown in...
Photograph

Families Leaving from Colony

Date: 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "Families leaving from colony -- Shown on platform at Matanuska village, where caught train for Seward."
Photograph

Theodore W. Griggs and Daughter Mary

Date: 1935
Description: Mary Griggs and her father Theodore W. Griggs are standing next to a four-door automobile parked outside the main lodge at Forest Lodge. Mary's mother, Mar...

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