• Palmer Alaska Vintage Style Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - Black Retro Bear Logo, White
  • Palmer Alaska Vintage Style Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - Black Retro Bear Logo, Athletic Heather
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Palmer Alaska Vintage Retro Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - Black Logo

Palmer Alaska Vintage Retro Unisex Cotton Jersey Tank Top - Black Logo

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The Palmer tank, for the town that grew out of a New Deal farm colony under the midnight sun. Lightweight Airlume cotton jersey with the Palmer vintage retro logo on the chest in black, for the hottest months of the year.

The tank is the summer Palmer piece: light enough for the trail, the boat and the porch, cut in a retail unisex fit that runs true to size. Order it before the warm weather does the deciding for you.

Lightweight Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton jersey in a retail fit that runs true to size for adults. Side-seam construction and self-fabric binding keep the shape, and the label is tear-away. Solid colors are 100% cotton, while select heather/prism shades may include cotton–poly or cotton–poly–rayon blends.

George Palmer traded in the Matanuska Valley from the 1890s and the railroad siding took his name in 1916. In 1935, under the New Deal, 203 Midwest farm families came north to the Matanuska Colony, lived in a tent city the first summer and drew lots for forty-acre tracts, making Palmer the only Alaskan town born of farming.

The gambrel-roofed colony barns still stand along Farm Loop Road, the Colony House Museum keeps a 1935 home, and the Alaska State Fair has shown the valley’s giant vegetables, grown in glacial silt under nineteen hours of summer daylight, since September 1936. Pioneer Peak stands over it all. Colony-grown is the mark on this piece.


QUICK FACTS — PALMER AK COTTON JERSEY TANK

Town: Palmer, Alaska

Founded: Siding 1916; colony 1935; city 1951

Known for: The Matanuska Colony of 1935; the colony barns; the Alaska State Fair since 1936; Pioneer Peak

Art: Palmer vintage retro logo, black (printed)

Blank: Unisex jersey tank, retail fit, side-seamed, self-fabric binding

Fabric: Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton; solids 100% cotton, heather/prism shades blended

Label: Tear-away

Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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How does your sizing work?

Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

How are items made and when will they arrive?

We make each item to order using premium blanks, embroidery and soft-hand prints. Production takes 2-5 business days (weekends and holidays excluded), then 4-10 days in transit via USPS, UPS or FedEx to U.S. addresses; most orders arrive within 6-15 business days. You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships. Any current shipping offer is shown in the bar at the top of every page and applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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What's the return policy?

Made-to-order items can't be returned or exchanged for size or color, so please use the size chart and photos before ordering. If anything arrives defective, misprinted or damaged, send a photo and your order number within 30 days and we'll replace it or refund you.

How do I care for my item?

Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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Palmer incorporated as a city in 1951 and is now the seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, a farm-and-commuter town forty-some miles up the Glenn Highway from Anchorage. The original colonists have mostly passed on, but their barns, their farms along Farm Loop Road, and their fair are still here, and the town still measures its year by planting, the midnight sun, and the long subarctic winter. It remains, proudly, Alaska's farm town.

The colony itself was a hard, uneven thing, and the honest version is the better one. Of the 203 families, perhaps a third had little real farming experience; the first years brought mud, mosquitoes, supply shortages, and a famously tangled bureaucracy. Some families thrived and some gave up — a fair number returned south within a few years, and by the 1960s only about twenty of the original 203 remained on their tracts. But enough stayed to make it work. They cleared land, raised the big trussed barns, built a church and a school and a railroad-depot town, and proved that a farm community could hold on in the Matanuska Valley.

Why People Visit Palmer

Palmer offers something rare in Alaska — real farm country, set against glaciers and peaks. Visitors come for the colony heritage and the State Fair, stay for the Hatcher Pass alpine and the Musk Ox Farm, and leave understanding why this one valley, under all that summer light, became the place Alaska grows its food.

Palmer Alaska Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring the Alaska bear and Alaska Territory Est. 1959