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Return to: The Matanuska Valley Colony - In 1935, Americans were struggling through the worst economic depression in history. Residents of rural areas of the northern states were among the worst of sufferers.

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Unloading the North Star, May 5th [1935]

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Title taken from image. Two men fastening cable around lumber. From the official album of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation Matanuska Colonization Project, 1935. Photographer's number 191.

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