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Box PCA0270

 Container

Contains 1016 Results:

Harold Boice family, Alaskan Colonists from Missaukee County, Michigan.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-941
Scope and Contents

[2 adults, 5 children standing in yard]

Dates: 1935

Home of Harold Boice and family before leaving Missaukee County, Michigan for Alaska.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-942
Content Description From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1935

One of Boice's cows after a winter of hardship on cut-over land. Missaukee Co., Michigan.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-943
Content Description From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1935

Typical cut over land from which Alaskan colonists migrated, in Missaukee Co., Michigan.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-944
Content Description From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1935

Alaskan colonists - Manistee County, Michigan. The Robert Usher family is ready to start. Their household belongings are loaded into the Welfare truck, but the dogs are not pleased with the idea of getting into their crate.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-945
Content Description From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1935

Alaska Colonists - Manistee County, Michigan. The Thomas Snyder family of Arcadia packing. Billy would like to take his pet lamb. Tom Snyder swapped his manure pile for the Marlin rifle seen at the left.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-947
Content Description From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1935

Alaska Colonists - Manistee County, Michigan. The whole group - four families - eighteen persons and four dogs in their crates - waiting at the station at Kaleva, May 11th, to start on their long journey.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-949
Content Description From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1935