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....
Title from verso. View of a man in a hat and overalls hoeing amidst rows of a leafy plant. The rows are planted in front of a large field lined by trees in the background. The caption suggests that the man is one of the farmers who came north...
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...
Photograph of the steam ship "St. Mihiel" on the water, smoke plume coming out of its funnel. On image: "A.A.R.C. 88". The Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation brought immigrants to Alaska as part of its Matanuska Valley Colonization Project....
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 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.
Group photo of Henry Rossiter, Campbell (supply foreman), and Almer J. Peterson standing together at building construction site in Palmer, Alaska, during Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colonization Project. 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...
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 verso. View of Matanuska Valley colonists lining up to draw for their forty acres of farmland in Palmer, Alaska, with tents at right. Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation brought families to Alaska for Matanuska Valley...
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.
Photograph shows a man and a woman using a two handed saw to trim a log. They are settlers building iin Palmer as part of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Colonization Project. Two wooden buildings and other homesteading...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...