Box PCA0270
Container
Contains 1016 Results:
Bound for Matanuska Valley. C.C.C. at Anchorage. Hewitt Photo Shop. (no. 4)
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-961
Scope and Contents
[View of train and crowd at train station]
Dates:
1935
[Colonists disembarking from train]
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-962
Scope and Contents
[ARRC-WTG photo]
Dates:
1935
C.C.C. [sic] Camp. A.R.R.&C. Matanuska Project. Single men (transients) lived in tents like these. Hewitt Photo Shop. Anchorage. (no. 8)
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-963
Scope and Contents
[Row of tents. Actually is tent city in Palmer.]
Dates:
1935
A specialist among us. A.R.R.&C. Project. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. (no. 11)
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-964
Scope and Contents
[Man carving a toilet seat in front of tents]
Dates:
1935
"All same." So. St. Paul. Matanuska Colonist Project. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. (no. 1).
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-965
Scope and Contents
[View of tent city under construction]
Dates:
1935
Palmer Post Office and General Store.
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-966
Scope and Contents
[Log building and tent city in background]
Dates:
1935
Miss Gladys Forrest Deputy Administrator, Alaska E.R.A.
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-967
Scope and Contents
[Standing next to a rail-riding car]
Dates:
1935
L to R: Leo Jacobs, Mgr., Matanuska Project; Dr. Colvin, Legal Counsel, C.O.; Steward Campbell, Liaison between Project and C.O.; ? ; Col. Ohlson, Head of Alaska Railroad.
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-968
Scope and Contents
[Standing together]
Dates:
1935
H. A. R. Carleton, Coordinator, A.R.R.C., in the official enrollee uniform takes a Sunday off and goes fishing in the head waters of Finger Lake, about 15 miles west of Palmer. May 26th [1935].
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-969
Scope and Contents
(no. 138)
Dates:
1935
From one Sourdough to another. For Mary Nan from Dave Williams, Matanuska Valley, Alaska, July 1935. Col. Hunt (U.S.M.C.); Colonel Bliss; Dave Williams.
Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-970
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