Cliff Marcus

SCS (Soil Conservation Service) Collection

September 1958

This photo shows two men gathering bundles of grain and standing them together into shocks with the heads at the top to dry. A completed shock is at immediate left foreground with three others in near middle ground while the two men are building others. Bundles of harvested grain awaiting the men's gathering activity lie on the stubble field that continues to the right out of the frame. An overgrown windrow from originally clearing the field and a large group of birch trees form most of the middle ground from the left, ending just short of the right side of the image, allowing a small view of another field beyond.

Matanuska Valley near Wasilla, Alaska

Black & White Paper Print, 4" x 5"

Farm#35xn-SCS-1