Alaska Road Commission

Cookman Collection

April 25, 1929

Image is an early springtime view north on the centerline of the Matanuska-Palmer road in the location where the town of Palmer would later develop. A man stands at the left edge of the road in foreground observing snow melt waters that have flooded over the road behind him. The elevated rail grade is apparent at right in middle ground with a small building on pilings between the road and the rails. A telegraph pole is adjacent, and a parked rail car is partially visible behind the building. The small railroad depot is visible in far middle ground next to the rail line at right across the road from the log roadhouse and other buildings of homesteader Georen O. White. The softening surface of the road exhibits recent passing of a horse-drawn vehicle.

Palmer, Alaska

Black & White Paper Print, 3-1/2" x 5-3/4"

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