Papers, 1947.
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Wendt, Evelyn.
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Evelyn Wendt was a homemaker from Michigan who worked with her husband Bob at his radio repair shop in Gaylord, Mich. In March 1947 she, her husband, and three children drove to Palmer, Alaska, along the Alcan Highway, a journey that took two months. They brought with them a trailer house, a generator, a new truck, a jeep, and enough canned foods to last them a year. She found employment in Palmer at the Matanuska Valley Farmers' Cooperating Association. The Matanuska Valley Colony was an agricu...
Matanuska Valley Colony (Alaska)
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The organization was established in 1935 under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration's program of organizing rural rehabilitation organizations in the United States. It was the administrative agency over the Matanuska Valley Colony in Palmer and was responsible for providing land and houses for the colonists, and for governing the colony. From the description of Photograph album, 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42926795 ...
