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| THE COLONISTS' ARRIVAL AT PALMER 5:20 PM, May 10th, 1935 |
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| Train holding first contingent colonists arriving in Palmer, May 10th [1935] |
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| Camp 8 showing corduroy road, tents and well rig. May 29th [1935]. |
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| Colonist mother departing from train |
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| Colonists leaving train |
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| As the cameramen grind away, the new arrivals seek the location of their tents |
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| Cutting logs for road construction. |
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| Enrollees at work. |
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| Dumping gravel on roads near Palmer. |
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| Hauling gravel for road construction. |
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| Digging garbage pit through four feet of frozen ground. |
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| Snaking logs. |
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| Offices at Palmer and sleeping quarters for officials. |
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| Fire detail on first job. |
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| Knut Johnson, local well digger. |
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| Metz Camp No. 4. |
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| Camp No. 7. |
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| Well diggers at work. May 10th [1935]. |
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| Log cabin and tents used by settlers at Rosslyn's Camp No. 7. |
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| Camp 5 completed. |
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| Springer's Camp No. 9. |
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| Log cabin Camp No. 5 showing tents in construction. |
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| Camp 6 completed. |
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| Clearing operations at Camp 6. |
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| Construction work on site of Fanning's Camp No. 6. May 15th. [1935]. |
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| Camp 2 completed. Note bus. |
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| Camp No. 2. 1:15 p.m. May 20th [1935]. 22 tents. |
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| Site of Colonists' camp No. 2. 2 p.m. May 17th [1935]. |
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| For the first time the engineer's chain stretches across this field. |
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| Mr. Perkins with [surveyor's] chain measuring site of new camp. |
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| Driving numbered post at Settler's Camp No. 2. |
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| Alan Perkins and Francis Biggs discussing engineering problems at Camp No. 2. |
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| Camp 8 completed. |
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| Corduroy road construction across ravine at Camp 8. |
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| Clearing operations. |
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| Colonists going to their tents |
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| Wonder and smiles mingle in the faces of the colonists' mothers |
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| Mother with baby in arms waiting to find the location of their tents |
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| Little Patsy, young colonist |
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| New personnel on arrival |
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| Colonists' luggage |
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| Waiting to be assigned to tents |
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| Colonists' first meal prepared by the Construction Division, 6 p.m. May 10th [1935] |
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| View of colonists along one side of dining table. |
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| An orange is the dessert for the colonists' first meal. |
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| Don L. Irwin and Col. O. F. Ohlsen |
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| Site of the colonists' Camp No. 8. 10:30 p.m. May 14th [1935]. |
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| Clearing willows out of swamp. Camp No. 8. May 18th [1935]. |
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| Tent construction, Camp 8. |
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| Camp 8. |
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| Smiling transient worker hauling logs. |
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| Cutting logs for sledge construction. |
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| Sledge construction. |
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| First church services held in the colony. 11 a.m. May 12, 1935. |
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| Truck stuck in the mud. |
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| Raising Old Glory |
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| School bus stuck in the mud near Palmer. |
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| Cat" hauling logs near Palmer. |
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| Road grader stuck in the mud. |
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| Pulling truck out of mud. |
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