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| 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." |
| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 10 1938 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Will Rogers in an Alaskan pea field in Matanuska Valley. |
| 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: | 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: | 06 23 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Foster, catching for the transients, and Karlovitch, batting for Anchorage, in the baseball game June 23." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Newsreel men re-enact the colony land drawing (or lottery)." |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Items on display on a back porch of the Colony House Museum. One of the items on display is a McCormick-Deering Cream Separator. |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Indoor display of a box of Matanuska Maid Ice Cream. From the Palmer Historical Society: "Matanuska Maid" was first the brand name of the Matanuska Valley ... |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Display of Matanuska Maid Milk Products. From the Palmer Historical Society: "Matanuska Maid" was first the brand name of the Matanuska Valley Farmers Coop... |
| 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man is standing outdoors holding the rope halter to a cow. He has a matchstick in his mouth. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Building an empire? The sawmill breaks down and what a crowd of onlookers to 'supervise' repairs." |
| Date: | 05 23 1935 |
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| Description: | Arville Schaleben using a typewriter in a tent. Caption with negative reads: "One-second exposure of myself inside out [sic] sleeping quarters and office." |
| Date: | 01 2019 |
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| Description: | Display of a can of peas at the Palmer Museum of Art and History. "Matanuska Maid" was first the brand name of the Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooperating Ass... |
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