Cliff Marcus

SCS (Soil Conservation Service) Collection

August 1959

This August image looks south across a pasture field to a Matanuska Colony farmstead in middle ground including the farmhouse at right constructed of logs on the ground floor with white-painted attic of dimension lumber under a peaked roof. At center left is a typical Colony barn standing broadside with numerous strips of roofing paper obviously blown off the roof. Several smaller structures are evident between the house and barn. Close beyond the buildings a strip of dark forest spans the image. At far left the west edge of Bodenburg Butte is visible in far middle ground. Pioneer Peak stands tall and massive in near background. The location is identified as taken from the corner of the Grover farm on the "Outer Springer System" south of Palmer.

Matanuska Valley, Alaska

Black & White Paper Print, 4" x 5"

Farm#14x-SCS-1