Title: Hattie (Heichel) Ackerman
Dates: ca. 1880-1940
Collection Number: 2017-P-045
Quantity: 79 items
Abstract: Photographs of Hattie Heichel Ackerman, her family, friends, life on the ranch/farm in Sioux County, North Dakota (1917 and 1936) and life on the farm in Minnesota after they were forced to leave North Dakota in 1936.
Provenance: The State Historical Society acquired the collection from Martin Anderson on October 9, 2017. Anderson donated additional photographs in April 2018.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Hattie Heichel was born in May 1887 in Iowa. She married Ennis Ackerman on September 9, 1913. She and her husband farmed on his homestead in Sioux County (N.D.) until they were forced to relocate during the drought that affected North Dakota in the mid-1930s. They moved to Minnesota in 1936. Hattie and Ennis had four children. After their move, the farmhouse was relocated to Bismarck (N.D.). Hattie died in December 1975.
INVENTORY
00001 John Jones, cousin of Harriet Heichel ca. 1910
00002 Portrait of Robert Repass 1912
00003 Unidentified woman ca. 1910
00004 Portrait of Jack Lester, Troop F, 13th Cav. ca. 1917
00005 Portrait of Blanche Hanson 1933
00006 Portrait of Essie Garet ca. 1910
00007 Portrait of Dr. Ira Crow ca. 1910
00008 Wedding portrait of Joe and Grace Jones ca. 1910
00009 Portrait of a woman XX/XXXX
00010 Portrait of Norman Holland ca. 1910
00011 Children on stools with dolls inside home ca. 1910
00012 Portrait of a child ca. 1910
00013 Portrait of a couple ca. 1940
00014 Portrait of a couple ca. 1940
00015 Art and Bess on farmstead ca. 1920
00016 Portrait of Judd Smith ca. 1885
00017 Group sitting on porch, including Anna McDonald ca. 1915
00018 Portrait of two women wearing hats ca. 1910
00019 Portrait of Midge Spellers and sisters ca. 1910
00020 Portrait of a woman ca. 1910
00021 Portrait of three children ca. 1910
00022 Portrait of Ottwell French 1905
00023 Art and Bess ca. 1910
00024 Portrait of a woman ca. 1910
00025 Portrait of Helen Yaple (now Helen Drew) 1909
00026 Wedding portrait of Ada and Barney Ten Brook ca. 1910
00027 Portrait of two women ca. 1910
00028 Portrait of G. Bellknap in uniform ca. 1917
00029 Wayne Ten Brook ca. 1910
00030 Graduation portrait of Iva Perkins (or Iva Perkins) ca. 1920
00031 Portrait of Jammie Belknapp ca. 1910
00032 Portrait of Ernest Hiestad ca. 1935
00033 Portrait of Hattie Bates Smith ca. 1885
00034 Portrait of a man ca. 1880
00035 Portrait of eight young students at Simpson College (Hattie Ackerman is fourth from the left) 1906
00036 Portrait of Hattie and Ennis Ackerman on their wedding day 9/9/1913
00037 Ennis Ackerman holding infant son Delon, Selfridge (N.D.) 1917
00038 Hattie Ackerman with son Delon on blanket near automobile, Sioux County (N.D.) 1918
00039 Delon and Clyde outside the Hattie and Ennis Ackerman home, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1920
00040 Hattie with children near ranch, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1920
00041 View of butte near ranch, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1920
00042 Clyde and Delon Ackerman
00043 Clyde Ackerman on small buttes near ranch, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1920
00044 Clyde on horse, Ackerman ranch
00045 Ackerman family outside home, children are playing: Delon, Garnes, Clyde, Ennis and Hattie, Sioux County (N.D.) 1925
00046 Mr. and Mrs. (Eilla) Smith with birthday cake, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1920
00047 Clyde, Ennis, Delon and Uncle Archie on rocks near ranch, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1925
00048 Rattlesnake, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1920
00049 Delon, Clyde and Garnes Ackerman with their aunt Mabel Hutzell Wetrich, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1927
00050 Mabel Hutzell Wetric near rocks, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1927
00051 Portrait of Miss Mell, teacher of Clyde and Delon Ackerman ca. 1925
00052 Delon and Clyde at Timber Lake (S.D.) ca. 1920
00053 Sitting Bull's grave, Fort Yates (N.D.) ca. 1920
00054 Mile-Long Bridge (Mobridge, S.D.) ca. 1920
00055 Ranch cattle, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1920
00056 Ranch horses, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1920
00057 Betty in walker in front of house, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1925
00058 Betty on porch of house with toy bear, stroller and rocking chair, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1925
00059 Betty and Garnes, with man, possibly Uncle Archie (Ennis' brother) at ranch, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1925
00060 Junior and Betty Ackerman on horseback ca. 1925
00061 Betty with two boys, cat, dog and toys in front of house (the boy on the left is probably Garnes) ca. 1925
00062 Ennis Ackerman, Ernie Brennick, and Betty Ackerman with recently butchered hog ca. 1925
00063 Betty Ackerman on horseback holding cat also on horseback
00064 Betty Ackerman outside home ca. 1936
00065 Ackerman family: Betty (fourth from left), Garnes (with rifle), Ennis (second from right), ranch hands and possible relatives of Ennis ca. 1936
00066 Betty and unidentified woman ca. 1936
00067 Garnes, Hattie, Delon, Betty and Clyde Ackerman ca. 1936
00068 Clyde, Betty and Phyllis herding cattle 1936
00069 Hattie and Ennis with car in front of house ca. 1936
00070 Garnes and Betty Ackerman in school, Olmstead County (Minn.) 1937
00071 Vernard Wetrich 11/11/1939
00072 Ackerman family outside home. Standing, left to right: Bob Ackerman, Mimie Ackerman, Betty Ackerman, Bonnie Jean Ackerman, Pattie Ackerman, Archie Ackerman, Grandma Graham, Garnes Ackerman, Delon Ackerman. Second row seated, left to right: Ennis Ackerman, Ora Ackerman Sr. Ora Ackerman Jr., Luther Ackerman, Bonnie Ackerman, Allan Ackerman, Jim Ackerman, Grandpa Heichel 9/1941
00073 Hattie and children on farm, Stewartville (Minn.) ca. 1936
00074 Ennis Ackerman and children, Stewartville (Minn.) ca. 1936
00075 Farm north of Stewartville (Minn.) 1939
00076 Ennis Ackerman feeding pigs on farm north of Stewartville (Minn.) 1944
00077 Ennis Ackerman portrait ca. 1937
00078 Hattie Ackerman with son Delon on blanket near car, Sioux County (N.D.) ca. 1937
00079 Portrait of the Ackerman family: Hattie, Delon, Ennis, Clyde, Garnes, and Betty ca. 1940
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