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Anton Anderson Collection

Summer-1936

This photo, taken from the new Palmer water tower, looks east toward the Knik Glacier in background. At right foreground is the gymnasium and part of the school building is visible. In extreme foreground center the roof of the creamery & vegetable processing building is partially visible with a house and tents slightly beyond and to the left. At extreme left foreground the chicken houses are partially visible with white chickens visible in the wire pens running to the right. White tents are visible at the right of the chicken pens next to the street which runs diagonally from bottom center to left. Another street runs horizontally across most of the image at lower middle ground. The space bounded by the two streets and the school buildings define the playground and temporary sports arena. Heavy forest occupies a horizontal strip across the image just beyond the middle ground play area open space, extending too the base of mountains in background. A large area of trees in middle ground had been cut in the past by a local homesteader but has obviously been left to regenerate into a thick brush field. Only a small portion of that previously cleared area in middle ground appears to have been kept under cultivation. Mountains in background frame the view up the Knik River valley to the glacier.

Palmer, Alaska

Black & White Paper Print, 3-1/4" x 4-3/4"

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