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...
View (from the rear) of the crowd gathered for the dedication of a new school building in Palmer. A banner and U.S. flag hang across the entrance of the school. An automobile with passengers inside is parked facing the school. Original photograph...
Players and spectators at a baseball game in Palmer. New Palmer school building and Chugach Mountains visible in background. Original photograph size: 5 x 7 inch.
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...
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...