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Colonists Using Tractor
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One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "Here is one of the tractors used by the colonists to 'snake' logs out of the woods for the erection of the colony's warehouse."
1935
Schaleben, Arville, 1907-1999
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Reading the News Bulletin
1935
One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "The colonists find out what is happening back home by readi...
Matanuska Valley Colonists
May 1935
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 life among the Wisconsin, Michigan and Min...
Will Rogers in Alaska
August 15, 1935
Will Rogers in an Alaskan pea field in Matanuska Valley.
Arville Schaleben Drinking from Spring
1935
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 Arville Schaleben of the Milwaukee Journal ...
Arville Schaleben Dressed for Mosquitoes
1935
One of two images under the headline: "Journal Writer in Alaska; Pioneer Woman Raises Firs." Original caption reads: "Arville Schaleben, Journal staff writer with the colonists, wearing his head ne...
Aerial View of Palmer
June 1935
Aerial view of. Original caption on AP print reads: "Matanuska Valley, Alaska, Sept. 15--Twentieth Century Pioneers--Breaking a wilderness to the purposes of man, colonists from mid-western states ...
