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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Cabbage growing outdoors. Caption reads: "Anchorage, Alaska." |
| 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: | 06 03 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Harold Davis, who had bad experience in Alaska and became influential as a colonist among the pioneers." He is standing outdoors, ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of tent camp, with Chugach mountains in background. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One of two images under the headline: "Journal Writer in Alaska; Pioneer Woman Raises Firs." Original caption reads: "Arville Schaleben, Journal staff writ... |
| Date: | 06 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of. Original caption on AP print reads: "Matanuska Valley, Alaska, Sept. 15--Twentieth Century Pioneers--Breaking a wilderness to the purposes ... |
| Date: | 05 23 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 23 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A group of men are working on straightening railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of men and women standing in front of a log building. |
| Date: | 06 27 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of boys playing marble game outdoors. One image under the headline: "The Kids Love Alaska; There's So Much to Do." Original caption reads: "Marbles s... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "William Geisman of San Francisco is the official photographer on the project." |
| 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: | 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: | Caption reads: "Martin McCormick, East [Tarvas], Mich., draws no. 1 in draw for position for final land lottery." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "The main street of Matanuska, next village south of Palmer." |
| Date: | 07 04 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "Mrs. Walter Fox, one of the colonists, got an encore at the Palmer fourth of July fete by her guitar playing and singing of ballads... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption handwritten on back reads: "vegetable display at colony's first fair. NOT my picture, obviously, but Hewitt's of Anchorage, who was first rate." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| 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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