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.
Transient men leaving by truck for their day's work, 7:30 a.m.
ASL-P270-884
Title taken from image. From the official album of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation Matanuska Colonization Project, 1935. Photographer's number 494.