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: | People are gathered at the entrance to the Post Office and General Store. There is a horse tethered to a wooden fence post, and an automobile is parked nea... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "Colonists lounge ... |
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 23 1935 |
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Description: | View over heads of crowd towards two men standing above the the crowd. There are tents behind them, and mountains in the distance. Caption could be: "Same ... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Marceline Venne, Betty and Fritz Hermon standing outdoors in front of a wire fence. There is a log building in the background. |
Date: | 06 02 1935 |
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Description: | Caption reads: "Alaska, Ho! Perched on their luggage ready for anything which their new deal may bring, this family of modern pioneers set out from near Su... |
Date: | 04 26 1935 |
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Description: | Family, including two children standing, a woman carrying another child, and a man who is carrying suitcases, leaving a house. |
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: | 1936 |
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Description: | Caption on back reads: "Gov. Parks. Colony day 1936. Ruth Dearmond behind him (right)." There is a child standing in the foreground, and many people are ga... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "Mrs. Agnes Sandvik (and children) a leader in the colony, both in early protest and early and subsequent progress. Caption with ne... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Mrs. Josephine Lemmon. Original caption reads: "Ron Sheely (left) Stewart Campbell (right) don't immediately identify woman in between. Don't remember what... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "Mrs. L.D. Ellexon of Knik and dog Queen. She's only white woman in Knik, which once had 500 residents but is now a ghost village." |
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." |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "Newsreel men re-enact the colony land drawing (or lottery)." |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "Left to right, Daniel E. McGrath, special U.S. Asst. Atty. Gen. Sent to colony to set up law enforcement; Mrs. S.R. Fuller, Jr.; S... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "S.R. Fuller, Jr., and his party pose in front of the construction division's log office. Maybe this will yield a half-col head or ... |
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