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[Young man wearing cap] – Antique Wall Art

[Young man wearing cap], [1935 May] — historic photograph
[Young man wearing cap], [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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Step back in time with [Young man wearing cap], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A young man in a cap, photographed in May 1935, is one of the colonists documented in an album of the first rural rehabilitation families bound from northern Minnesota to the Matanuska Valley in Alaska. The record notes that the group sailed from San Francisco on May 1, 1935. The Matanuska colony was a New Deal resettlement project meant to give families who had lost their farms or livelihoods during the Depression a chance at new land. Portraits like this one put a face on that effort, showing the individual settlers who left the Midwest for a frontier with harsh winters and unfamiliar soil.

Created / published[1935 May]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 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. 4.
SubjectsMen--West (U.S.)--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,156 × 1,474 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217552

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