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Children in Camp 8
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One of two images under the headline: "How Children Keep Busy in Alaskan Tent Colony." Original caption reads: "It's warm enough for sun suits in the Palmer colony but these children, standing in the door of their temporary tent home in Camp 8, had better look out for those man eating mosquitoes."
May 31, 1935
Schaleben, Arville, 1907-1999
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Group of Children at Sunday School
1935
One of two images under the headline: "How Children Keep Busy in Alaskan Tent Colony." Original caption reads: "How do the children live in the Wisconsin-Michigan-Minnesota Alaskan colony? These pi...
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...
Mrs. Bud Holler
1935
One of two images under the headline: "Wives of Alaskan Pioneers Kept Busy Sewing, Making Tent Homes Neat and Clean." Original caption reads: "Mrs. Bud Holler of Pine City, Minn., is the picture of...
Will Rogers in Alaska
August 15, 1935
Will Rogers in an Alaskan pea field in Matanuska Valley.
Camp #8
1935
One of two images under the headline: "Wives of Alaskan Pioneers Kept Busy Sewing, Making Tent Homes Neat and Clean." Original caption reads: "... a row of neat tents in camp No. 8."
Arville Schaleben Using Typewriter
May 23, 1935
Arville Schaleben using a typewriter in a tent. Caption with negative reads: "One-second exposure of myself inside out [sic] sleeping quarters and office."
