Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Elevated view of men, women and children ready to disembark ship. Original caption reads: "Determination to make good is written on the faces of the Wiscon... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | One of a group of images under the headline: "First Pictures of Wisconsin's Alaskan Pioneers at Sea and Their Arrival at Seward." Original caption reads: "... |
Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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Description: | Will Rogers in an Alaskan pea field in Matanuska Valley. |
Date: | 05 1935 |
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Description: | One of two images under the headline: "Colonists Play 'Find the Freight'; a Beauty Shop." Original caption reads: "Freight is tossed off anywhere along th... |
Date: | 05 1935 |
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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... |
Date: | 05 19 1935 |
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Description: | John Herman and his wife sleeping in their seats on a railroad car. Printed in The Milwaukee Journal with a caption that reads: "The train ride in d... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Elevated view from a ship, probably the St. Mihiel, towards a large crowd of people standing on the wharf. Settlers from Wisconsin and Michigan depa... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | A young girl, Virginia La Rose, age 5, wearing a coat and hat and holding a doll under her right arm, is ready to disembark. She is the daughter of Henry 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: | 08 15 1935 |
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Description: | Caption with negative reads: "Rogers talking with Mrs. I.M. Sandvik, colonist from Moose Lake, Minn. In back of Rogers is Stewart Campbell, property custod... |
Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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Description: | Caption with negative reads: "Rogers in the front seat of the plane, waiting for the take-off. He left the valley with a wisecrack on his lips." |
Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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Description: | Will Rogers in foreground, with two men standing behind him on the right, and the airplane in the background. Caption with negative: "Rogers alighting from... |
Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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Description: | Caption with negative: "Rogers joshes with transients, asking, 'Any of you boys from Claremore?'" The airplane is in the background. |
Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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Description: | Caption with negative: "Rogers and Post a few minutes after landing." Another man is standing in the background on the left. |
Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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Description: | Caption with negative: "Immediately after Post and Rogers landed with Pilot Chet McLean of Anchorage, with Post in the front seat with the pilot. Chief Pil... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "Families leaving from colony -- Shown on platform at Matanuska village, where caught train for Seward. Otto Fisher family shown in... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "Families leaving from colony -- Shown on platform at Matanuska village, where caught train for Seward." |
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