The collection includes the official photograph album of the Matanuska Colonization Project, 1935 by the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp., and miscellaneous views, giving both an official and personal perspective. Willis T. Geisman, official photographer for the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. (A.R.R.C.), produced four or five unique photograph albums covering a period from April to October, 1935. They were dispersed to the A.R.R.C. office in Palmer, the Governor of Alaska, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (F.E.R.A.) in Washington, D.C., and President Roosevelt. They are now held in the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the Alaska State Archives, and the Alaska State Historical Library. Geisman was killed while a POW on a Japanese medical ship in World War II. . [Information from: “Inventory of the Mary Nan Gamble Papers, 1935-1945 (MS94) and Photographs (PCA 270)” (in the Historical Collections) and from James H. Fox ,author, Photographs of the Matanuska Valley Colony of 1935.]