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Cattaro

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Description: Austrian compound on the Bocche (Bay) of Cattaro (Kotor).
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Haystacks in Field

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Description: View down steep hill with haystacks. In the small valley below are farm buildings. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
Postcard

Wisconsin River Valley from Nelson Dewey State Park

Date: 1937
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin River Valley, looking down across tree-covered bluffs. Caption reads: "Wisconsin River Valley from Nelson Dewey State Park."
Drawing

Farm in Valley

Date: 09 01 1928
Description: View down hill towards farm buildings in a valley. Hill and mountains are in the distance.
Photograph

Truck on Highway

Date: 12 01 1928
Description: View down highway towards a truck coming up the hilly, windy road. There is a long guardrail on the left, with a steep bank rising up on the right. The hig...
Photograph

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 ...
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Arville Schaleben Standing Next to Automobile

Date: 1935
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 ...
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...
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Farm of Walter Pippel

Date: 04 10 1938
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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Arville Schaleben Drinking from Spring

Date: 1935
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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Farm in Matanuska Valley

Date: 1970
Description: View towards farm buildings, with snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Photograph

The Big Jump

Date: 01 1952
Description: Ski jumping at Timber Coulee. A large crowd is gathered to watch. Today it is named Snowflake Ski & Golf Club. It is host to a ski jumping tournament since...
Photograph

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

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Description: Elevated, stereograph over a tree towards a valley with the Tennessee River running through it. On the left is a rock outcropping.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Day by day — A new chapter in pioneer history!

Date: 07 14 1935
Description: Newspaper article in The Milwaukee Journal on Arville Schaleben and his coverage as a reporter/photographer on the colonists moving from Wisconsin a...
Photograph

Community Potato Patch

Date: 1935
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...
Photograph

First Hay

Date: 1952
Description: A woman is driving a horse-drawn hay wagon pulling a hay loader on the William Houser Farm. A child and a man, each with a hay fork, are riding on the load...
Photograph

On the Lower Fox

Date: 01 1950
Description: Winter image of the Interlake Pulp Mill in the Fox River Valley. The buildings are surrounded by large stacks of logs. The Fox River can be seen behind and...
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Kettle Moraine Drive Near Greenbush

Date: 1955
Description: View from drive looking down towards a valley surrounded by hills and forest. Caption reads: "Landscape near Greenbush, Wis."

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