Title taken from stereograph. "343-13329 -- Eskimo Girls and part of Crew of Steamship Eric at Uper-Navik, northernmost Danish trading post, Greenland"
"Upernavik is the northernmost Danish trading post in Greenland. Greenland, as you...
View of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colonization Project tent camp in Palmer. A man stands outside one of the tents; mountains visible in the background. Original photograph size: 5 x 7 inch.
View of an Alaska Rural Reconstruction Corporation (ARRC) building site in Palmer, 1935. Construction workers are engaged in various tasks around the site; the foundation of the wooden building is in place. This construction was part of the ARRC...
Portrait of Janet Sherrod (foreground) standing on the dock in Seward in front of the North Star, a ship that brought Matanuska Valley Colony settlers from Seattle to Alaska. Several people are standing on the dock and on the gangplank to the...
Title taken from image. Photographic postcard of a Palmer street in winter. There are a few, widely scattered buildings on the street. A Matanuska Valley colonist is in the middle of the road, standing on a sled drawn by two horses. Another horse...
Title taken from caption. Photo shows two long rows of tents, separated by a road. Wood stove pipes can be seen coming out of the rear of the tents on the right. This tent camp was set up to house the Alaska Rural Reconstruction Corporation...
Title taken from verso. From finding aid: "Looking Toward Little Butte." View of a snow covered farmhouse and dutch style barn located in a clearing. Snow covered peaks in the background. Photographic postcard; postcard size: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2.
Two men stand beside an automobile parked outside a log cabin in Palmer. Jack Scott's truck at left (Jack M. Scott was Rusty Dow's father). The tents in the background are part of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation Matanuska Valley...
Title taken from image. Looking down at an Alaska Railroad train and a crowd standing on the platform of the Anchorage, Alaska railway station. The crowd has come to meet the Matanuska Valley colonists arriving on the train. Printing on railroad...
Title taken from verso. View of Matanuska Valley colonists lining up to draw for their forty acre farmland in Palmer, Alaska. Child stands at left and dog stands in line with farmers at right. Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation brought...
Title taken from verso. View of farmer drawing his forty acre farm in Palmer, Alaska, during Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colonization Project. Also from verso: "5/23/35." May 23, 1935. Photographer: Almer J. Peterson.
Title taken from verso. View of farmers preparing to draw for their forty acre farms in Palmer, Alaska, during Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Manatuska Valley Colonization Project. Men in far background are (left to right) Colonel O.F....
Almer J. Peterson standing next to wash tub and washboard doing laundry in Palmer (known earlier as Warton), Alaska, with buildings in background. Buildings are at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony. From verso:...
Richard Amundsen (holding cat), Nels Evander, and Almer J. Peterson standing outside a log building in Palmer, Alaska, during employment as carpenters for Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colonization Project. Sign on...