Experiment Farm 1
Unknown
Matanuska Experiment Farm
Image shows fields & experimental plots in foreground, buildings of the experiment farm in middle ground with forest behind, and mountains faintly in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 10
Unknown
Turnip Harvest
Image shows a man carrying a pitchfork and a large turnip in front of a building at the experiment farm.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 11
Unknown
Grain Field
Image shows a partially harvested grain field with several grain shocks and a man at the edge of the standing grain, possibly cutting it by hand. A different grain plot appears beyond and plots of other plants, possibly berries, are evident in the middle ground. A bluff and forest are in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 12
Unknown
Building Haystacks
Image shows two men in a field of harvested hay in the foreground, lifting loose hay with pitchforks to place it over upright wooden stakes to form haystacks. A harvested grain field is just beyond with grain shocks evident. Fences, pasture land and trees are in far middle ground.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 13
Unknown
Hogs
Image shows several Hampshire hogs and piglets in a stubble field with buildings of the Matanuska Agricultural Experiment Farm in far middle ground and forest beyond.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 14
Unknown
Hogs
Image shows several Hampshire hogs and piglets in a stubble field with buildings of the Matanuska Agricultural Experiment Farm in far middle ground and forest beyond and mountains in background. A man is evident walking in the field in middle ground.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 15
Unknown
Man & Hogs
Image shows Experiment Farm director M.D. Snodgrass standing in a fenced enclosure with three Hampshire hogs. A forested hill is in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 16
International News Press
Harvesting grain with a cat tractor and grain binder
Image shows grain being harvested on the Matanuska Agricultural Experiment Farm. Grain bundles formed into shocks are in foreground. A cat tractor is pulling a grain binder, cutting standing grain in the field at middle ground. One man is on the tractor, another rides the binder. Bundles of cut grain are evident on the ground in middle ground and additional shocks are visible in far middle ground. A hillside with a road cut and trees is in background with mountain tops visible beyond.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 17
Hewitt's Photo Shop
Experiment Farm
Image is a high oblique west oriented overview of the Matanuska Experiment Farm and surrounding landscape. Land clearing patterns are obvious. Several small independent farmsteads are visible in small forest clearings. Lakes and roads are visible.
Matanuska Valley, Alaska
Experiment Farm 18
“ACME” News Photos
Matanuska Agricultural Experiment Farm
Image shows the Matanuska Experiment Farm buildings in middle ground, a field of harvested & shocked grain in foreground, forest behind the buildings and snow-topped Pioneer Peak prominent in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 19
Don Irwin
Harvesting grain with a grain binder & two-horse team
Image depicts a man riding a grain binder pulled by a two horse team with grain shocks in the foreground, buildings of the Matanuska Experiment Farm in near background, with Pioneer Peak & other Chugach Mountains beyond.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 2
Unknown
Matanuska Experiment Farm
Image shows fields & experimental plots in foreground, buildings of the experiment farm in middle ground with forest behind.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 20
Unknown
Digging Potatoes
Image shows a partially harvested potato field with three men digging potatoes by hand using long-handled forks. Two rows of dug potatoes and several wooden tote boxes are evident in the foreground. A hay field with several haystacks is in middle ground and a bluff and forest are in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 21
Unknown
Digging Potatoes
Image shows a partially harvested potato field with a man digging potatoes by hand using a long-handled fork. Two rows of dug potatoes and an old truck are evident in the foreground. A harvested hay field with several haystacks is in middle ground and a bluff and forest are in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 22
Unknown
Cultipacking With A Horse Team
Image shows a man riding a cultipacker machine drawn by a team of two white horses in a field of tilled ground on the Matanuska Experiment Farm. A forest is in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 23
Unknown
Berry Test Plots
Image shows berry test plots in foreground & middle ground surrounded by chicken wire fence on wood posts. Newly cleared ground & stumps show in the right foreground with a planted field in middle ground. Forest occupies far middle ground, mountains in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 24
Don Irwin
Fall harvest of berries from test plots at the Experiment Farm
This image shows hillside test plots of various types of berries at the Matanuska Experiment Farm, and numerous women in the act of harvesting the berries. Additional test plots are in the foreground. The barn, silo & other buildings of the farm are beyond.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 25
Don Irwin
Fall harvest of berries from the test plots at the Experiment Farm
This image shows hillside test plots of various types of berries at the Matanuska Experiment Farm and numerous women in the act of harvesting the berries. Additional test plots are on level ground. The photo is taken from Trunk Road with the roadside fence and gate to the plots in the foreground. Trunk road is shown ascending the hill above the plots.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 26
Don Irwin
Fall harvest of berries from from test plots at the Matanuska Experiment Farm
This image shows hillside test plots of various types of berries at the Matanuska Experiment Farm, and numerous women in the act of harvesting the berries. Additional test plots of corn in the foreground.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 27
Don Irwin
Fall harvest of berries from test plots at the Experiment Farm
This image shows hillside test plots of various types of berries at the Matanuska Experiment Farm and numerous women in the act of harvesting the berries. Additional test plots and newly cleared land beyond.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 28
Jackson
Wheat harvest at the Matanuska Experiment Farm
Image is a fall westerly view across the lower fields of the Experiment Farm showing a small house and greenhouse at the base of the hill and shocks of grain in the fields. Trunk Road is evident as it ascends the hill and a small building is evident in the field on the top bench. Heavy forest boarders the fields in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 29
Jackson
Matanuska Experiment Farm
Image is an easterly view of the Matanuska/Wasilla road leading past fields to the Experiment Farm complex. The barns and houses are at center middle ground and a small house and greenhouse are evident at the base of the hill to the right. Heavy forest is behind the complex and mountains are in the background under cloudy skies.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 3
Unknown
Matanuska Experiment Farm
Image shows fields & experimental plots in foreground, buildings of the experiment farm in middle ground with forest behind, and mountains faintly in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 30
Hewitts
Matanuska Experiment Farm
Image shows a grass field in foreground, the barn, silos and associated buildings of the Experiment Farm in middle ground, forest behind and part of Pioneer Peak in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 31
Bragaws
Buildings of the Matanuska Experiment Farm
Image is of a tilled field in foreground before several of the buildings of the Matanuska Experiment Farm with heavy forest beyond. Date of the photo is uncertain, but based partly on the automobile visible at left of the house, it’s estimated to be in the early 1930’s.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 32
Johnston
Haystacks dot the field in front of Matanuska Experiment Farm houses, barns and outbuildings
Image is of the Matanuska Experiment Farm with harvested loose hay formed into stacks on hay stakes in foreground with farm buildings beyond. The differences in size and shape of the hay stacks suggest they may reflect experiments in either plots of different production techniques of the hay throughout the field or different configuration of the stacks for best curing the hay. Heavy forest forms the backdrop.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 33
Hitchen
A color view of the Matanuska Experiment Farm viewed from Trunk Road on the south
Image is a fall color view of the Matanuska Experiment Farm buildings taken from Trunk Road south of the farm. The gravel road is prominent in foreground with a car parked on the shoulder. A field of ripe grain is to the left and the farm buildings are in middle ground, center. A power pole is visible to the right of the road and telephone poles and wires are evident on the road’s left side. Fluffy white clouds are in blue sky overhead.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 34
Don Irwin
People in a field at Matanuska Experiment Farm.
This image shows two unidentified women and Father Merrill Sulzman, Palmer Catholic priest, standing in a bean field in front of the barn and other buildings of the Matanuska Experiment Farm near Matanuska, Alaska. They appear to be in the process of picking beans.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 35
Hewitts Photo Shop
A summer view of part of the Experiment Farm barn complex in 1936
Image is of part of the Experiment Farm barn complex as it appeared in 1936
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 36
Cann
Winter is approaching as snow appears on Pioneer Peak and fall harvest is complete in the fields of the Matanuska Experiment Farm and broadleaf trees of the forest begin to turn color.
The view is southeasterly across a fallow field in foreground at a barn and two houses comprising the Matanuska Experiment Farm complex. Heavy forest covers the land beyond to a large snow-capped mountain, identified as Pioneer Peak, in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 37
Hewitts Photo Shop
The bench below the main complex of the Experiment Farm exhibit a partially harvested grain field, a small staff house and greenhouse with snowless mountains in background.
View is southeasterly across a grain field with the near portion harvested and formed into shocks. A small white house and adjacent greenhouse are at left in the harvested field. A large portion of the grain field beyond is not yet cut. Another house is partially visible in the far middle ground at the edge of heavy forest that covers the land beyond the field. Pioneer Peak and adjacent mountains form the background with no visible snow.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 38
Alaska Road Commission
Matanuska Experiment Farm
This easterly summer view of the Matanuska Experiment Farm, taken from Road Route 35J west of the station, shows the buildings in place in May 1930 and some of the cleared land and fencing.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 39
Howard Doster
Springtime at the Experiment Farm appears quiet as preparations are made for a busy summer.
This image, taken from the bench northwest of the Matanuska Experiment Farm, looks across open fields in foreground at the farm buildings in middle ground. To the right in far middle ground, two Colony barns and a house are visible on Colony tract #32. Pioneer Peak and Eklutna River Valley are apparent in background. Remnant snow is obvious on the mountain peaks.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 4
Unknown
Barns
Image shows the back of the main barn at Matanuska Experiment Farm and a pole barn partly filled with hay, wire fencing on wood posts in foreground, trees in middle & background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 40
Hitchen
Hay and grain harvest is seen at the Experiment Farm.
This black & white image looks southeast over the greenhouse and head house in foreground on the lower bench of the farm below the main building complex. A smaller building is near the house at far left. In middle ground a field of hay is harvested and placed on numerous vertical stakes scattered around the field to dry. Another field of grain at left has been harvested and the bundles have been formed into shocks to dry. A strip of heavy forest projects from the left in near background with a Colony farmstead visible in a clearing at center. Mountains of the Chugach Range form the background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 41
Hitchen
Hay and grain harvest is seen at the Experiment Farm.
This black & white image looks down from one of the benches on the Experiment Farm at the flat crop land below. In foreground is a fenced portion sectioned into small parcels with a small hut in each (perhaps hog farrowing pens?). In middle ground are partially harvested hay fields at left with scattered haystacks, and at right are partially harvested grain fields with scattered grain shocks evident. Heavy timber at far middle ground define the field edge at left and the face of the bench land at right. A cleared section of the bench is visible in center background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 5
Unknown
Harvested Grain
Image shows a man, identified as “Wingfield”, standing in a field of harvested grain in shocks in the foreground, buildings of the Matanuska Experiment Farm are behind in middle ground, Pioneer Peak in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 6
Unknown
Haystacks
Image shows a man standing in a field of harvested hay formed in haystacks in stakes in the foreground, trees in middle ground and mountains in background.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 7
Don Irwin
Woman mowing hay with a two horse team
Image shows a team of two white horses hitched to a mower in a field of hay in the process of being mowed. Sitting on the mower is a woman in a dress and sweater, holding the reins.
Matanuska Experiment Farm near Palmer, Alaska
Experiment Farm 8
Unknown
Man & Berry Plants
Image shows a man, identified as M.D. Snodgrass, standing among shrubby that appears to be berry bushes in the foreground, fields and forest are beyond.
Matanuska, Alaska
Experiment Farm 9
Unknown
Men In Field
Image shows three men, center man identified as M.D. Snodgrass, standing in a field of grain with a different crop in the foreground, fields and forest are beyond.
Matanuska, Alaska
Farming 26
Hewitts Photo Shop
A field of grain on the Matanuska Experiment Farm is being harvested with a grain binder being pulled by a three-horse team.
Image is a low oblique of a grain field on the Matanuska Experiment Farm being harvested with a three-horse team pulling a grain binder. One man rides the binder while another man gathers the harvested grain bundles into upright shocks to dry.
Matanuska, Alaska
Matanuska Valley Air View 2
Johnston
Aerial oblique view across farm land southwest of Palmer, including Matanuska and the Matanuska Experiment Farm, across the Matanuska River to the mountains beyond
Image is an easterly low oblique aerial view across farm land southwest of Palmer, including Matanuska and the Matanuska Experiment Farm, across the Matanuska River to the mountains beyond. Bodenburg Butte is visible. Farms and forest clearing patterns, stump rows and roads are apparent.
Matanuska Valley, Alaska
People 64
Unknown
Women of the Colony show off the cans of salmon they have prepared for future consumption.
Three Matanuska Colony women, identified as Alida Green, left; Leona Fitzpatrick, center; and Margaret Miller, right, stand in foreground before many silver cans stacked head-high against the wall behind them. The cans are filled with salmon the women have packed for future consumption by their families. The canning activity was conducted at facilities located at the Matanuska Experiment Station under supervision of Extension Service personnel as explained by a poster on the wall behind Mrs. Green.
Matanuska, Alaska
