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Manuscripts by Subject - Family / Local History - #10958 - Box 49

Box 49 Special negatives

1 Man in KC hall, could be RR retiree, 1946 – 1948 (1 negative)
2 Great Northern Railroad yards, repair shed, tipple and roundhouse slow steam train in foreground - about 1953 Williston aerial camera painting mostly west – Williston showing old riverbed – one dated 1966 (2 negatives)
3 Portrait of a girl, Kalil (1 print)
4 Deer hunters at Ray water tower (1 negative)
5 River Pix, could be Minot flood (4 negatives)
6 Fast mail train whistling as it leaves Williston, 1941 (1 negative and 1 print)
7 Skating rink, camera points North – skaters on NW ¼ of Recreation Park(1 photographic postcard)
8 Sheriff’s prisoner (1 negative)
9 Young boy with Literary Digest Magazine, taken by Pasonault (1 negative)
10 Truck outside the Chrysler Plymouth Standard Service station (1 negative)
11 Four women and a man outside the Grenora City Hall (1 negative)
12 Men / employees in a postal work room (1 negative)
13 Men / employees in a postal work room (1 negative)
14 Two older women sitting on a park bench (1 negative)
15 Large group portrait of older people outside (1 negative)
16 Large group portrait of older people outside (1 negative)
17 Group of older people sitting outside (1 negative)
18 Williams County Court House and Jail, Williston, N.D. (1 print)
19 Tom Freeman and bull about 1941 (2 negatives)
20 Old friends – two old-timers with bottle Sunny Brooks Bourbon (1 negative)
21 Miscellaneous Air views of Williston about 1952 – 1953; including West Williston housing (15 negatives)
22 Williston clown band, Minneapolis, MN Aquatennial parade, Dev Negs (11 negs)
23 Two decks of playing cards, case has a picture of Westland service center, one deck of cards is green with Westland service center, and the other is a picture of the North Dakota state capitol in Bismarck, N.D.
Bill Shemorry pix, Special File
24 Williston North Dakota, The City of Opportunity image from 1910 ? (1 print)
25 Artist images of an Alfalfa field in the Little Muddy Valley, Cherry creek in McKenzie County, Buford – Trenton flats and the Missouri River, The Main Canal and deer hung up after hunting (1 print)
26 WW Petty and Horse drawn medicine rig – empty envelope
27 Nothing…
28 Federal tax men raid athletic club, confiscated pinball machine, back across alley from Hedderick’s (2 negatives)
29 Williston high school football teams – copies (13 negatives)
30 Flood pix some air and some ground – Ice backed up against Little Muddy and Railroad bridges East of Williston, N.D. (3 negatives)
31 Flood, aerial view of a house under water (1 negative)
32 Krazy Daze, Lloyd Joseph and Dettsconte wrestle in tank of mud (4 negatives)
33 Bill, older pix – Bill 21st Birthday, Bill with guinea rooster, Bill with sword for church play, Bill sitting on ledge – Presbyterian ? (30 negatives)
34 Root Beer barrel (2 negatives)
35 recipe titled “Original Coney Island Sauce Recipe”
36 note
37 newspaper clipping dated 10/26 on Shemorry’s “book on area anecdotes to be published soon”
38 newspaper clipping dated 10/26 on Shemorry’s book The Lost Tales
39 Press – Views of shop and Empolyees, Corinne Shemorry, Ole Vatne, Claude Rankin, Walt Dupaul, Al Grove, Charles Gloab, Office Girl?, Board of Directors – Swan Anderson, Earl Swiny, Paul Rockney?, installing sign, Ole Vatne, Walt Dupaul, Claude Raukin, Al Grove, Gloab (9 negatives)
40 Credit Union girl with certificates, Sheriff Candidate, met reporter Federal Savings and Loan – Farmers Union Oil loan money (9 negatives)
41 Mark Andre, Dru Burk, Dale Asberg – Future Farmers (16 negatives)
42 Westland (?) Auto parts – Elzie Baker and Leonard Soiseth (2 negatives)
43 Athletic Club, after Corbelt – a bar (4 negatives)
44 Exterior of OK Tire Company building and Michelin truck – North of Williston (4 negatives)
45 Westland Truck Stop – International Trucks (4 negatives)
46 Burns – Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burns (1 negative)
47 Man with wood art work – there is a Tioga banner in the background (1 negative)
48 Group portrait of women wearing outfits and costumes (1 negative)
49 Exterior of a house (1 negative)
50 Exterior of houses (1 negative)
51 Exterior of a house on 4th (1 negative)
52 Main Street at night (1 negative)
53 View of the street, trees and a house (1 negative)
54 Exterior of a house (1 negative)
55 Young girl with a Christmas tree (1 negative)
56 Two young girls with a Christmas tree (1 negative)
57 Frost Scenes – recreation park – Elks - Hagan Residence (6 negatives)
58 Snow Scenes – Spring Lake Park (7 negatives)
59 Two women and a man standing in a clothing store – sign in the back says Grand Opening, Fashion Crossroads (1 print)
60 Ribbon Cutting ceremony outside of a building, probably Fashion Crossroads – the large scissors say Williston Chamber of Commerce, Contact Club (1 print)
61 Parade float on the corner of Main Street and 4th Street E (1 print)
62 Band Day 1946 - empty
63 Williston air view, business district about 1948, good view of Columbia Hotel (1 negative)
64 Williston Downtown aerial picture (1 negative)
65 Williston downtown aerial view (1 negative)
66 Mercy Hospital dedicates new wing (11 negatives)
67 to 73 Portraits of nuns and a priest with two children – probably from St. Joseph’s and / or Mercy Hospital (total of 7 negatives)
St. Joseph School Dedication, 1953
74 Catholic dedicate new part of St. Joseph school (1 negative)
75 to 81 St. Joseph School dedication, 1953 (total of 7 negatives)
82 St. Joseph School ground breaking (3 negatives)
83 Construction of St. Joseph’s gyms, mid 1950’s (1 negative)
84 to 89 St. Joseph School dedication, 1953 (total of 6 negatives)
90 St. Joseph School under construction (1 negative)
91 to 97 Interior and exterior of school, most likely St. Joseph School (7 negatives total)
A.M. Thompson and Wildrose, N.D.
98 Roods – recreation (1 negative)
99 Wildrose, Street scene, also Winkjer garage (2 negatives and 1 print)
100 Winkjer – Garage – storm, 6/29/1919 (2 negatives)
101 A.C. Townly, speaking 6/11/1919 in Crosby, N.D. (2 negatives and 2 prints)
102 Old time street scene, Wildrose, also baseball (3 negatives)
103 Frazier for Governor (1 negative and 1 print)
104 Old time – aeroplanes (2 negatives and 2 prints)
105 Wildrose, street scene old time (3 negatives and 1 print)
106 Picking raspberries – at A.M. Thompsons place (2 negatives)
107 Wildrose, N.D. 6/15/1916 main street – printed backward (1 print)
108 Old time – Willow Lake scene (5 negatives and 1 print)
109 Old time threshing outfit, T.O. Rundhaug (5 negatives and 1 print)
110 Wildrose Auto Co. (1 negative)
111 Wildrose street scene – old time, band playing (1 print and 1 negative)
112 letter to Bill Shemorry dated 1/15/1988 from Florence M. Thompson of Wildrose
113 letter to Bill Shemorry dated3/27/1988 from Florence M. Thompson of Wildrose and handwritten letters from Mr. Francis E. Lawlor to Mrs. Thompson about early negatives and prints dated 1/7/1981 and 9/12/1981

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