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[Father and child on train] – Antique Print

[Father and child on train], [1935 May] — historic photograph
[Father and child on train], [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 father and young child sit on a train in this 1935 view, part of an album documenting some of the first rural rehabilitation colonists to travel from northern Minnesota to the Matanuska Valley in Alaska. The group sailed from San Francisco on May 1, 1935, and the trip west was the first leg of their move. The Matanuska colony was a New Deal resettlement project that aimed to give farm families hit hard by the Depression a fresh start on new land. Scenes like this one capture the long journey, when the settlers were still on their way to a place many had never seen.

Created / published[1935 May]
Medium1 photographic print : 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. 2.
SubjectsFathers & children--United States--1930-1940. Passengers--West (U.S.)--1930-1940. Railroads--West (U.S.)--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,163 × 1,474 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217550

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