Cliff Marcus

SCS (Soil Conservation Service) Collection

September 1958

This photo, taken from the Palmer Fishhook Roadside, looks across a small field of harvested hay to a farmstead originally established by Matanuska Colonists Neil and Margaret Miller in 1935 on tract #155. The original barn and enlarged house are visible in left center middle ground on the far side of the field with heavy birch forest defining the field from the house to the right side of the image. A low wooded hill is visible behind the farmstead in the far middle ground. A low rounded mountain is partially visible at far right in background. Lying obviously on the foreground field are numerous rectangular ("square") hay bales with a man on a tractor near the center of the field pulling a baling machine as it picks up the loose cut hay and forms it into the bales and deposits them on the ground. At the time of the photo this working farm was also one of several Children's Homes in the Valley.

Matanuska Valley, Alaska

Black & White Paper Print, 4" x 5"

Farming#3x-SCS-1