Title: Red River Valley Scenes
Dates: ca. 1890-1915
Collection Number: 00072
Quantity: 69 items
Abstract: Glass plate negatives of a family, their farm, automobiles, dogs, and Northern Pacific trains, bridges, workers, and rail yards.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota received this collection from Snyder Films (Fargo, N.D.) in August 1984. It is unknown who the photographer is and how Snyder Films acquired these negatives.
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PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00072-00001 Three men pose on a washed-out bridge abutment along the Red River in North Dakota ca. 1915
00072-00002 Five unidentified men pose by a garden ornament ca. 1915
00072-00003 Three men with arms across each other's shoulders pose in a flat farm field ca. 1915
00072-00004 Unidentified homestead era woman ca. 1900
00072-00005 Unidentified homestead era woman in a print dress ca. 1900
00072-00006 Farm family of six poses with the new automobile ca. 1915
00072-00007 A group of unidentified women and children posing by the side of a building ca. 1915
00072-00008 Three men and three teams of horses collecting firewood ca. 1915
00072-00009 Five workers and a line-up of harvesting machinery ca. 1915
00072-00010 Harvesting machinery with farm workers and horses ca. 1915
00072-00011 Farm workers and harvesting machinery ca. 1915
00072-00012 All hands on deck for the start of harvest ca. 1915
00072-00013 Portable harvesting structures and a large crew of field hands ca. 1915
00072-00014 A man and his dog walk on a fallen windmill frame ca. 1915
00072-00015 Portable harvest structures and water wagon by a large work crew ca. 1915
00072-00016 Group of men, women, and children outside a many gabled house ca. 1915
00072-00017 Potato harvesters ca. 1915
00072-00018 Group with two automobiles outside a farmhouse ca. 1915
00072-00019 Men in a rowboat in a town's water-filled street in front of four houses ca. 1915
00072-00020 Dozens of buggies, automobiles, and people congregate on an unidentified Red River Valley farm ca. 1915
00072-00021 Farmstead in the snow ca. 1915
00072-00022 Dog "driving" the automobile with three men ca. 1915
00072-00023 Automobiles line both sides of a rural dirt road ca. 1915
00072-00024 A group of people gathered in and around a convertible automobile ca. 1915
00072-00025 Man in a winter coat beside his automobile in the snow ca. 1915
00072-00026 Men in a farmyard with a horse-drawn buggy ca. 1915
00072-00027 Farm family in a horse-drawn cart ca. 1915
00072-00028 A family headed out for a drive in their automobile ca. 1915
00072-00029 Two men and a big black dog on a horse-drawn threshing machine ca. 1915
00072-00030 Hay stacks by a ramshackle farm building ca. 1915
00072-00031 Two men with horse-drawn sleigh ca. 1915
00072-00032 Dogs and people in a group scene ca. 1915
00072-00033 Three men sitting on a seed drill ca. 1915
00072-00034 Two farm workers with their teams plowing a field while a dog accompanies them ca. 1915
00072-00035 A farmer controls the teams pulling a seed drill ca. 1915
00072-00036 Young farm worker fixing an engine with a wrench ca. 1915
00072-00037 Harvesting scene with horse teams ca. 1915
00072-00038 Farm worker and a horse team plowing a furrow ca. 1915
00072-00039 Five men pose on a railing along a river ca. 1915
00072-00040 Two young musicians with piano and violin ca. 1915
00072-00041 A family group and dog outside a farmhouse ca. 1915
00072-00042 Group or family posing outside a large farmhouse ca. 1915
00072-00043 A young girl posing with her parents ca. 1915
00072-00044 A man sitting in a hammock by a man in a rocking chair ca. 1915
00072-00045 Two young men on bicycles ca. 1915
00072-00046 Two little brothers play with their wagon ca. 1915
00072-00047 – 00048 Threshing rig and crew ca. 1915
00072-00049 Men standing near a tractor ca. 1915
00072-00050 Family group in a wooded clearing with their dogs ca. 1915
00072-00051 Four musicians with stringed instruments ca. 1915
00072-00052 Two young men pose with two young women ca. 1915
00072-00053 The Aldrich, Minnesota railroad station and tracks ca. 1900
00072-00054 Northern Pacific Railroad Work yards at Brainerd (Minn.) ca. 1915
00072-00055 Northern Pacific Railroad Work yards, Brainerd (Minn.) ca. 1915
00072-00056 – 00057 Men building a Northern Pacific Rail Bridge over the Red River of the North ca. 1890
00072-00058 Six men on the top chord of a Double Intersection Warren wooden rail bridge over a river ca. 1910
00072-00059 Railroad bridge reconstruction in the Red River Valley (N.D.) ca. 1900
00072-00060 Two men stand alongside a Northern Pacific train ca. 1910
00072-00061 Five men beside a Northern Pacific Railroad car ca. 1915
00072-00062 Five men beside three Northern Pacific railroad cars ca. 1915
00072-00063 Men posing on the top chord of a railroad bridge ca. 1910
00072-00064 Three men and a handcar or pump trolley on a steel railroad bridge ca. 1915
00072-00065 Eight workmen pose on a wooden truss bridge ca. 1900
00072-00066 Aldrich, Minnesota railroad station and tracks ca. 1900
00072-00067 Eight workmen posing on a wooden truss bridge ca. 1900
00072-00068 Four workmen on the #70 Red Lake River wooden railroad bridge, Minnesota ca. 1895
00072-00069 Northern Pacific Railroad S67 and eight railroad workers ca. 1915
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