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[Three scenes of rural rehabilitation colonists: Views of parents traveling with children in a railroad passenger car] – Antique Wall Art

[Three scenes of rural rehabilitation colonists: Views of parents traveling with children in a railroad passenger car], [1935 May] — historic photograph
[Three scenes of rural rehabilitation colonists: Views of parents traveling with children in a railroad passenger car], [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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Three scenes of rural rehabilitation colonists: Views of parents traveling with children in a railroad passenger car]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Three scenes of rural rehabilitation colonists: Views of parents traveling with children in a railroad passenger car]

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Three views of parents and children in a railroad passenger car set these pictures apart from the usual scenes of the colonists at work. The travelers were among the first rural rehabilitation colonists bound for the Matanuska Valley in Alaska, a New Deal resettlement project that moved families from northern Minnesota to farmland north of Anchorage during the Depression. According to the album notes, the group sailed from San Francisco on May 1, 1935, so these images document the long overland leg of a move that uprooted entire households. The children's faces and the crowded seats convey how much the families were leaving behind.

Created / published[1935 May]
Medium3 photographic prints (1 page) : gelatin silver.
GenreGelatin 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. 3.
SubjectsFamilies--United States--1930-1940. Passengers--West (U.S.)--1930-1940. Railroads--West (U.S.)--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,148 × 1,452 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217551

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