66 second, black & white/silent, film clip of Matanuska Valley Colony farmers drawing for horses. Scenes include horses being off-loaded from a freight train and Matanuska Valley Colony farmers drawing for teams of horses.
75 second film clip, black & white/silent of medical professionals using an x-ray, apparently photographing the leg of a small child. A nurse is working with an autoclave.
56 second film clip, black & white/silent, of activities at the hospital in Palmer, Alaska. Scenes on the film clip include medical professionals seeing patients and setting the arm of a small girl, a patient ward, a nurse holding two infants...
60 second, black & white/silent, film clip of Matanuska Valley Colony houses and tents at Palmer, Alaska. Scenes include a horse drawn wagon, an automobile, scenes of houses and tents at Palmer (including some under construction) and a train...
67 second, black & white/silent, film clip of people shopping at the trading post in Palmer. It looks as if a man is getting paid in tokens or bingles.
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...
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:...
Title taken from verso. View of farmer mowing hay during first harvest for Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony in Palmer, Alaska. Building stands in background. Also from verso: "Sept. 22, 1935. Palmer." Photographer:...
View of hay drying equipment on A.A. Shoenback farm at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony in Palmer, Alaska. Richard O. Amundsen stands at right of truck loaded with hay pulled up to drying shed. From verso: "Sept....
Title taken from caption. Reverend Bert J. Bingle stands near his living quarters at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony, Palmer, Alaska. From verso: "Palmer, Alaska. May 1935. Rev. Bingle, his living quarters, and...
Almer J. Peterson standing in front of living quarters at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony, Palmer, Alaska. From verso: "Palmer, Alaska. May 16th. Where I now stay and eat." From caption: "Dad - where he boards and...
Colonists from Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony netting salmon in Cook Inlet, Alaska. From verso: "Colonists netting salmon in Cook Inlet, 1936." Photographer: Almer J. Peterson.
View of temporary construction at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony in Palmer, Alaska, with Chugach Mountains in background. From verso: "Palmer. 1936 Nov. Last of temporary construction. Chugach Mountain[s] in...
Katherine Powers, dressed in a nurses uniform, stands beside an Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation truck. Truck has "ARRC 30" on the door. A Matanuska Valley Colony building site is visible in the background. Original photograph size: 7 x 5...
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...