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[Two scenes aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel: A family group posing on deck, and a man looking through a porthole] – Vintage Wall Art

[Two scenes aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel: A family group posing on deck, and a man looking through a porthole], [1935 May] — historic photograph
[Two scenes aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel: A family group posing on deck, and a man looking through a porthole], [1935 May]. Historic photograph from the Alaska collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Two scenes aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel, a transport that carried the first rural rehabilitation colonists bound for Alaska's Matanuska Valley, are shown here: a family posing together on deck, and a man gazing out through a porthole. The colonists were drawn from northern Minnesota, part of a New Deal effort to resettle farm families on new land after the Depression had left many of them without work. The ship sailed from San Francisco on May 1, 1935, and the pictures suggest the long, uncertain stretch between the families' old lives and the frontier that lay ahead.

Created / published[1935 May]
Medium2 photographic prints (1 page) : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1940.Group portraits 1930-1940.Gelatin silver prints 1930-1940.
NotesSurrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. In album: First rural rehabilitation colonists, Northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Sailed from San Francisco, May 1st, 1935; p. 7.
SubjectsFamilies--California--San Francisco--1930-1940. Men--California--San Francisco--1930-1940. Passengers--California--San Francisco--1930-1940. Ships--American--California--San Francisco--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,159 × 1,456 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217555

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