[Map of Alaska indicating Matanuska area] – Antique Map Print
![[Map of Alaska indicating Matanuska area], [1935 May] — antique map](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/eb/ebd630b39738-L.webp)
(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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[Map of Alaska indicating Matanuska area] comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Map of Alaska indicating Matanuska area]
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A hand-drawn map in ink and color pencil marks the Matanuska Valley within Alaska, and it was made in May 1935 as part of an album documenting the first rural rehabilitation colonists who left northern Minnesota for the territory. The colonists sailed from San Francisco on May 1, 1935, bound for the Matanuska Valley northeast of Anchorage. The settlement was a New Deal resettlement project meant to give farm families from the hard-hit Midwest a fresh start on land in the north. The map shows how remote the destination was from the families' home states.
| Created / published | [1935 May] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink and color pencil. |
| Genre | Maps 1930-1940.Drawings Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Surrogate 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 [i]. |
| Subjects | Alaska--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,169 × 1,474 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217548 |
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