Aerial view of Matanuska Valley, Alaska, near Palmer, Alaska. Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Colony homes and tents barely visible through trees. Part of airplane visible at top right. From verso: "Palmer, Alaska. 9/22/35....
Aerial view of Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Colony homes and tents at Palmer, Alaska. Knik River is in distance. From verso: "Sept. 22, 1935. Palmer, Matanuska Valley. Air view 2500 feet up. Tent camp. 10 transient workers....
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:...
Almer J. Peterson, carpenter for Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Colonization Project, standing in front of his law office in Palmer, Alaska. From verso: "Palmer, Alaska. Sept. 22, 1935. Carpenter, lawyer & druggist. Oldest...
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 Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's dormitory and housing, Palmer. c1939-1942. Original photograph size: 2 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from image. Two men and a woman hold oversized book titled "Jones Law." Float reads: "We want the same kind of independence the thirteen colonies gained back in 1776."
Exhibition: ASM 7-8/70 Descriptive Narrative: A certificate presented by Mathew Murav'ev, Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company, to Matvei Naushketl, a Tlingit chief. The certificate was given along with a silver medal "Soiuznye...
Descriptive Narrative: 1 certificate attesting the giving of a Christina name to Naushket, a Sitka chief. Bears red seal which is disintegrated. Descriptive Narrative: A Russian certificate presented to a Tlingit leader of Sitka,...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. This kittiwake is a widely distributed breeder across the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It builds nests of grasses, seaweeds, mosses, and mud on small ledges on vertical...
Title taken from front. View of street lined with canvas tents and people in front of them, Matanuska Valley Colony, Palmer, Alaska. Photographer's number 15. 1930? Photographer: Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5...
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.
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...
View of colt raised by Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colonization Project colonists in Matanuska Valley, Alaska. From verso: "One of first colts raised by colonists." 1935-1936. Photographer: Almer J. Peterson.
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...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. This auklet is largely confined to the Bering Sea region, where it typically nests in huge colonies on islands near cold, saline water currents. Colonies of 250,000 or more of the species...