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[Title page including photographic print of American flag] – Antique Photo Print

[Title page including photographic print of American flag], [1935 May] — historic photograph
[Title page including photographic print of American flag], [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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A window into the past: [Title page including photographic print of American flag], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Title page including photographic print of American flag]

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A flag fills the title page of this photo album, which introduces the first group of rural rehabilitation colonists bound for Alaska. The record notes that they sailed from San Francisco on May 1, 1935, on their way from northern Minnesota to the Matanuska Valley. The Matanuska colony was a New Deal effort to resettle farm families who had lost their land and livelihoods during the Great Depression, giving them a fresh start on new land in the territory. A patriotic emblem on the opening page of such an album signals the government sponsorship behind the move and the hopes that came with it.

Created / published[1935 May]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenreTitle pages 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; title page.
SubjectsFlags--American--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,159 × 1,483 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217547

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