Hitchen

Hitchen Collection

1948

This black & white fall photo shows a Matanuska Valley farmstead as seen from a gravel road partially visible running diagonally across the image at left foreground. A barbed wire fence parallels the road from right to left beyond the road ditch with a power pole in line at right. A field of grain stubble rises gently across the middle ground with the farmstead buildings arranged across the brow of the low hill. A white single-story house with peaked roof and attic window is at far left. A smaller dark building (wellhouse?) is close by to the right. Farther to the right is a small, fenced enclosure including two small structures, likely small animal barns. At far right is a low shed partially visible beyond a large two-story barn. The barn is longer than wide and not of the typical "Colony Barn" style. A fringe of mostly deciduous trees is visible behind the buildings at the left half of the image.

Matanuska Valley, Alaska

Black & White print from 35mm color slide

Matanuska Farm#s2x-Hit B&W