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Children in Camp 8

Date: 05 31 1935
Description: One of two images under the headline: "How Children Keep Busy in Alaskan Tent Colony." Original caption reads: "It's warm enough for sun suits in the Palme...
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Roughan Home

Date: 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "The Roughan home, with the rude log house at the right and the barn in the background. It is typical of the desolate home Wisconsi...
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Group of Children at Camp Number 5

Date: 1935
Description: Group portrait of children sitting on a stack of logs. One of the children is holding a cat. Taken at Colony, Camp Number 5. Cabins are in the background. ...
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People in front of Palmer Post Office and General Store

Date: 1935
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...
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Seward Welcomes the Wisconsin — Michigan Colonists

Date: 05 1935
Description: Group of people on dock to welcome the pioneers. A woman standing on the dock on the right appears to be holding a camera at her waist. One of a group of i...
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Arville Schaleben Dressed for Mosquitoes

Date: 1935
Description: One of two images under the headline: "Journal Writer in Alaska; Pioneer Woman Raises Firs." Original caption reads: "Arville Schaleben, Journal staff writ...
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Cows Corralled Before Milking

Date: 05 31 1935
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 ...
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Skin of Black Bear

Date: 08 11 1935
Description: Caption from photocopy of newspaper article reads: "What with Will Rogers suggesting that Matanuska colonists need a polo team, maybe you have been wonderi...
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Unloading a Cow from Railroad Car

Date: 05 1935
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."
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Henry Jensen and Lawrence Larson Cultivating Garden

Date: 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Lawrence Larson from International Falls, Minn., and Henry Jensen, Little Fork., Minn., cultivating a community garden at Camp 2. Y...
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Bearskin

Date: 08 02 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pakonen, Iron Mountain, Mich., shown with [sic] in their cottage yard with the skin of a bear Pakonen and anot...
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Frank Ring with Calf

Date: 1935
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....
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Wesley Worden, Dick and Jackie

Date: 04 26 1935
Description: Wesley Worden, Dick and Jackie, and a dog, sitting and standing outdoors at the back of an automobile, which has a Wisconsin license plate. A fence and bar...
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Mrs. Pakonen with Bear Paws

Date: 08 02 1935
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...
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Woman Sitting with Dog in Her Lap

Date: 04 26 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "Mrs. Victor Johnson and Nerts." There are buildings in the background. Caption with print reads: "Mrs. Victor Johnson, from W...
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Two Men and a Dog

Date: 1935
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...
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Henry Rossiter with Horse

Date: 05 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "Matanuska. A pretty good horse takes its first steps into the life as a pioneer. It's colonist Henry Rossiter leading one of stall...
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Mrs. L.D. Ellexon

Date: 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "Mrs. L.D. Ellexon of Knik and dog Queen. She's only white woman in Knik, which once had 500 residents but is now a ghost village."
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Team of Colony Horses

Date: 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "A team of colony horses, feeding at a grain drill against a giant pile of baled hay."

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