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Box PCA0270

 Container

Contains 1016 Results:

Members of the 4-H Club at Camp 8.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-634
Scope and Contents

[Women and children standing in front of tent] [L. Fohn-Hansen (dark coat) top center; Mrs. Erickson to left (glasses), left to right front row: Mrs. Kalliosari, H. Vasanoja (2nd woman left), 4th is Mrs. Wilkes, 8th woman is M. Vasanoja (behind baby), Mrs. Loyer (dark clothes), ?, ?] (no. 442)

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

When returning home one rainy morning, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Paconen (Mich.) found this bear very much alive on their doorstep. Mr. ran for a gun; Mrs. fainted, but Mr. returned with another colonist and two rifles. Six shots rang out and the bear fell dead about ten feet from their cabin door.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-635
Scope and Contents

[The Paconens posed with a bear hide] (no. 495)

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

Holding the two claws of the bear that her husband shot on the doorstep of their new cabin.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-636
Scope and Contents

[Mrs. Paconen holding two bear paws] (no. 496)

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

Colonist hauling logs for his cabin.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-637
Scope and Contents

[Man chaining logs to horses] [Emil Larsh]

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

An old sourdough's cabin. This type of cabin can usually be found where ever one travels; some are in use, but most of them are deserted. Compare with the modern colonist's log cabin.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-638
Scope and Contents

(no. 480)

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

A street scene in the tent village.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-639
Scope and Contents

(no. 498)

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

Washday - Palmer.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-640
Scope and Contents

(no. 499)

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

Two colonist children at play.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-641
Scope and Contents

[On caterpillar tractor] (no. 501)

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

Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen (left), instructor in Home Economics at the University of Alaska, shown teaching Mrs. Lloyd Bell, Michigan colonist, the art of weaving. Mrs. Fohn-Hansen conducts regular courses at Palmer for the benefit of the colonists.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-642
Scope and Contents

(no. 693)

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

Mrs. Lloyd Bell spinning wool into yarn on an improvised spinning wheel made from an old sewing machine.

 Item — Box: PCA0270
Identifier: PCA0270-643
Scope and Contents

(no. 694)

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