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...
65 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a small town newspaper being produced. According to the sign hanging on the building, Jack Allman was the editor and publisher. Possibly this is him in the clip. A man types and then makes copies of...
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.
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.
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.
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....
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 Matanuska Valley, Alaska, with road at right and Talkeetna Mountains in background. From verso: "Aug. 18th, 1935. Talkeetna M[oun]t[ain]s in the distance, famous Matanuska Valley." Photographer: Almer J. Peterson.
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
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.
Container for milk made by Matanuska Maid, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska. Printing on container reads: "Vitamin enriched Alaska's best. One quart. Matanuska Maid. Fresh daily. Pasteurized grade "A" homogenized milk. Build Alaska. Buy the best. Buy...
Container for sour cream made by Matanuska Maid Dairy, Anchorage, Alaska. Printing on container reads: "Matanuska Maid. Grade "A" pasteurized sour cream. 8 oz. liquid. [?] by Matanuska Maid Dairy, Anchorage, Alaska." June 12, 1957. Photographer:...