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The Matanuska Colony Album

Author : Helen Hegener
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984397792
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book The Matanuska Colony Album written by Helen Hegener and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935 the U.S. Government transported 203 families from the Great Depression-stricken upper midwest to a valley of unparalleled beauty in Alaska, where they were given the chance to begin new lives as part of a federally-funded social experiment. Willis T. Geisman was the official photographer for the project, and his compelling images of the families, workmen, officials, landscape and more are presented in this collection of his photographs. Willis Geisman traveled to Alaska with the advance guard of officials and workmen for the project, documenting as he went, and he lived among the Matanuska Colony families from May through October, 1935, chronicling their arrival, living in the tent cities built for them, and their farms slowly taking shape over the course of the summer. He photographed the men working to build a community in the Alaskan wilderness, the children playing, the wives going about their daily chores. A line of trucks full of transient workmen setting off for a day's work, a group of children gleefully picking wild raspberries, a proud farm wife showing off her stacked cans of salmon, a farmer harvesting hay behind a team of strong horses. These are the images Willis Geisman captured, and they tell the story of one of the most interesting chapters of Alaskan - and American - history, a time when the U.S. government took a direct hand in the lives of thousands of its citizens. Today the Matanuska Valley, with picturesque Colony farms dotting the landscape, draws worldwide attention for its colorful agricultural heritage and its uniquely orchestrated history. This book of Willis Geisman's enduring photographs tells the story of that history.

Sweet Home Alaska

Author : Carole Estby Dagg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147514207
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Home Alaska written by Carole Estby Dagg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If Laura Ingalls Wilder had lived in Alaska, she might have written this novel . . ."--Kirkus Reviews It's 1934, and times are tough for Trip's family after the mill in their small Wisconsin town closes, leaving her father unemployed. Determined to provide for his family, he moves them all to Alaska to become pioneers as part of President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project. Trip and her family are settling in, except her mom, who balks at the lack of civilization. But Trip feels like she's following in Laura Ingalls Wilder's footsteps, and she hatches a plan to raise enough money for a piano to convince her musical mother that Alaska is a wonderful and cultured home. Her sights set on the cash prize at the upcoming Palmer Colony Fair, but can Trip grow the largest pumpkin possible--using all the love, energy, and Farmer Boy expertise she can muster?

The 1935 Matanuska Colony Project

Author : Helen Hegener
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984397785
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book The 1935 Matanuska Colony Project written by Helen Hegener and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935 the U.S. Government transported 200 families from the Great Depression-stricken upper midwest to a valley of unparalleled beauty in Alaska, where they were given the chance to begin new lives as part of a federally-funded social experiment. The 1935 Matanuska Colony Project, subtitled "The Remarkable History of a New Deal Experiment in Alaska," shares the enduring legacy of this all-but-forgotten chapter in American history, when the U.S. government took a direct hand in the lives of thousands of its citizens, offering Depression-distraught farm families an opportunity to start over in a far-off land with government financing and support. The Matanuska Colony was not the only government rural rehabilitation project; it was in fact only one of a multitude of complex, ambitious and controversial programs initiated under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Federal Rural Development Program, and other resettlement projects included Dyess Colony, Arkansas; Arthurdale, West Virginia; the Phoenix Homesteads in Arizona; and similar colonies in over a dozen other states. Although fraught with inevitable bureaucratic entanglements, frustrating delays, and a variety of other distractions, the Matanuska Colony actually thrived for the most part, and nearly 200 families remained to raise their families and make their permanent homes in Alaska. Highways were built, the wide Matanuska and Knik Rivers were bridged, and the town of Palmer became the center of commerce and society in the Valley. By 1948, production from the Colony Project farms provided over half of the total Alaskan agricultural products sold. Today the Matanuska Valley draws worldwide attention for its colorful agricultural heritage and its uniquely orchestrated history. This book tells the story of that history.

The Matanuska Colony

Author : Brigitte Lively
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Matanuska Colony written by Brigitte Lively and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guide to the Manuscript Collections at the University of Alaska, Anchorage

Author : Dennis F. Walle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Collections at the University of Alaska, Anchorage written by Dennis F. Walle and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this guide is to provide researchers with the basic information on the contents of the manuscript collections in the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the University of Alaska Anchorage Consortium Library.

The Frontier in Alaska and the Matanuska Colony

Author : Orlando W. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier in Alaska and the Matanuska Colony written by Orlando W. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inventory of the Mary Nan Gamble Papers, 1935-1945 (MS 94) and Photographs (PCA 270)

Author : Alaska Historical Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Inventory of the Mary Nan Gamble Papers, 1935-1945 (MS 94) and Photographs (PCA 270) written by Alaska Historical Library and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Matanuska Colony Sixty Years

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Matanuska Colony Sixty Years written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cabin 135

Author : Katie Eberhart
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602234213
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Cabin 135 written by Katie Eberhart and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her home, she found herself thinking through her ever-changing ideas about aging and place, a lot of which were wrapped up closely in her experience of living in the house itself. Cabin 135 provided shelter and security, and it also offered lessons on economic disruptions and how ideas of normalcy change. In these pages, we share Eberhart’s experience of digging into the past—figuratively and, in her garden, at an archaeology site, and in a national park, literally. Every layer peeled back, we find, reveals another story, another way of thinking about nature and the past—our own and that of others. In greenhouse and garden, yard, forest, and more distant places—a beach in southeast Alaska, the Arctic coast, Swiss Alps, Iceland, and even Biosphere-2 in Arizona—Eberhart engages with the world around her, and, through it, reflects on her own experiences and journey through life. Offering a journey of wonder and curiosity, through the author’s mind, a house’s structure, and other places, Cabin 135 is a deft combination of memoir and nature writing, rich with thought and full of appreciation for—and profound concerns about—the world and our place in it.

American Book Publishing Record

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Snug Harbor Cannery

Author : Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Snug Harbor Cannery written by Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancestry, Life, and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley

Author : Nathaniel West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Ancestry, Life, and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley written by Nathaniel West and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.

Research Annual Report

Author : University of Alaska Fairbanks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Research Annual Report written by University of Alaska Fairbanks and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quilts of Alaska

Author : June E. Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quilts of Alaska written by June E. Hall and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Red Cross Courier

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Red Cross Courier written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wonderland, Or, Twelve Weeks in and Out of the United States

Author : Edward S. Parkinson
Publisher : Trenton, N.J., MacCrellish & Quigley, printers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Wonderland, Or, Twelve Weeks in and Out of the United States written by Edward S. Parkinson and published by Trenton, N.J., MacCrellish & Quigley, printers. This book was released on 1894 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward S. Parkinson was a New Jersey newspaperman who traveled to California and Alaska in 1892. Wonderland, or Twelve weeks in and out of the United States (1894) is his account of that three-month adventure: a rail trip from New Jersey to California with side trips to Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Highlights include visits to the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Yosemite, Portland and Shoshone; with a chapter on California resort hotels.