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Box PCA0270

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Contains 1016 Results:

Log cabin Camp No. 5 showing tents in construction.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-159
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
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935

Camp 5 completed.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-160
Scope and Contents

[Log cabin and tents]

Dates: 1935
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935

Log cabin and tents used by settlers at Rosslyn's Camp No. 7.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-161
Scope and Contents

(no. 126)

Dates: 1935
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935

Camp No. 7.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-162
Scope and Contents

[View of six tents]

Dates: 1935
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935

Metz Camp No. 4.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-163
Scope and Contents

[Row of ten tents and a pickup truck] (no. 116)

Dates: 1935
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935

Springer's Camp No. 9.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-164
Scope and Contents

[17 tents with mountains in background] (no. 115?)

Dates: 1935
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935

Well diggers at work. May 10th [1935].

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-165
Scope and Contents

[Two men cranking a windlass over a hole in the ground] (no. 65)

Dates: 1935
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935

Knut Johnson, local well digger.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-166
Scope and Contents

[Looking down on Johnson in the bottom of a wood-lined shaft]

Dates: 1935
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935

Fire detail on first job.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-167
Scope and Contents

[Four men shoveling soil in a large, smoking pit] (no. 67)

Dates: 1935
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935

Offices at Palmer and sleeping quarters for officials.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-168
Scope and Contents

[Tent camp with forest and mountains in background] (no. 87)

Dates: 1935
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 270, Mary Nan Gamble Photograph Collection, 1935