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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Samuel Brown. He was born in Massachusetts on January 8, 1804, and came to Wisconsin in November of 1834. In late 1835, B... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Moses Hardwick, a farmer who was one of the first settlers in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 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: "J.J. Bugge, Minne... |
| 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One of two images under the headline: "Alaskan Pioneers Start First Log Building, Clear Townsite." Original caption for the top photograph reads: "The Minn... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A vehicle or tractor on a trailer in front of a tent with a sign for "Matanuska Valley Pioneer, Jack Allman, Publisher • Editor." Two men and a dog are sta... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One image under the headline: "Dissatisfied Transients Quit in Alaska." Original caption reads: "Dissatisfaction at the Matanuska colonization project in A... |
| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 31 1935 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man is driving a caterpillar tractor. A group of men are standing behind him on the right. On the left is part of a building and an agricultural implemen... |
| Date: | 04 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Family, including two children standing, a woman carrying another child, and a man who is carrying suitcases, leaving a house. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men are working outdoors. The man on the left with a carpenter's apron is Victor Johnson. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A group of men are working on straightening railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Home of Arthur Retallic, Amasa, Mich., nears completion. Work on it progressed more swiftly than on any other cottage and was fath... |
| 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Left to right, Daniel E. McGrath, special U.S. Asst. Atty. Gen. Sent to colony to set up law enforcement; Mrs. S.R. Fuller, Jr.; S... |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Art in front of Palmer Museum of History and Art, depicting a 1930s truck farmer and her dog. |
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