Manuscripts by Subject - Family / Local History - #10958 - Box 37

Box 35

Box 36

Box 37
1 20 negatives – old automobile, two men with a fish, and old time pics
2 9 negatives – inside and outside of church, ground breaking for new building, and watering new lawn at Episcopal Church, 1950’s
3 3 negatives – group with plaques probably ND Press 1974 in Williston, N.D.
4 182 negatives – swimming, swim meets, basketball teams, snowmobiling, group portraits of cheerleaders, portraits of men, American Legion men, FFA boy, exterior and interior of a building, Main Street in Williston, N.D., man at typewriter, homecoming parade, Minot vs. Williston Coyotes men’s basketball game, group portraits of women, snowmobile trophies, and snowmobile racing
5 30 negatives – Grenora, N.D. including buildings
6 36 negatives – Goldwater Announces for President, Phoenix, 1964 or 1965?
7 4 negatives – Indian men portraits for Gay and David
8 5 negatives – Haakon Stockman WPR columnist
9 77 negatives – Save Rural America – Awards, Harris Anderson & Bill from CC
10 Christmas gathering, Shemorry’s – 1 pic entire family (11 negatives)
11 Cool Mining, same in mine (1 copy negative)
12 Mother and Dad Shemorry 12/1946, Carving Turkey good pic, also Christmas (4 negatives and 1 print)
13 Queens at Swimming Meet, 8/7/1947 (5 negatives)
14 Bridge, old and new Lewis & Clark Bridge (3 negatives)
15 Air spraying (3 negatives)
16 Group portrait of women and children (1 negative)
17 Pierces Café and drive in, and Municipal Airport, 7/24/1947 (6 negatives)
18 Great Northern yards, repair shops, Romd (?) house, power plant, aerial pic (2 negatives)
19 Bill’s high school friends, pix with Bob Henry’s old Chevy (3 negatives)
20 Wally Hagea, H & H shoe store (2 negatives)
21 Bill Shemorry – College days (23 negatives)
22 Band Day parade, about 1955 (3 negatives)
23 Montgomery Ward – truckload of boats (2 negatives)
24 Church – probably at Tioga – the one now a museum? (1 negative)
25 Prairie pioneer Band, Lloyd Bjella, Dr. Alan Johnson and nurses, Wilber Robb, Ray Atol & Dave Greengard, 1967 (3 negatives)
26 Old Time car – part of Greengard collection (1 negative)
27 Birthday party for Darol Jean Davidson, 1/1/1948 (2 negatives)
28 Baseball team portraits including V.F.W. 2328 team and Zahl team (5 negs)
29 Stwan’s Farming store, Ray, N.D. 8/15/1954 (4 negatives)
30 Snowden Bridge raised (1 screened negative)
31 The “White House” at Stroud, N.D. in McKenzie County (1 copy negative)
32 Women line up to purchase nylon stockings at J.C. Penney’s (1 negative)
33 Williston is sprayed by airplane, 7/31/1947, one pic camera pointed SE other NW both from top of Farmers Union Cement Elevator (2 negatives)
34 Jan and Gay Shemorry – about 1960, Queen Contest candidates (5 color negs)
35 Shemorry, Ed and Bill early 1980’s Freeburg Church, Moe Tractor (1 copy neg)
36 People walking or standing along the streets for parades (4 negatives)
37 2 screened negatives – men combining and portrait of a man
38 Accident Plow-in at Akre’s, 2/1968 (24 negatives)
39 31 color negatives including a man in a hospital bed, copy negatives, and kids
40 3 Pasonault negatives: portraits of women and men working on the street, outside of the John Shikany Williston building, between 1912 and 1945
41 11 negatives – including pour beer in City water tank by UND- W
42 13 negatives – including dog in Joe’s (grondahl) Place
43 24 negatives – Chinese Party
44 52 negatives – local buildings and people from Genora and Williston, N.D.
45 11 prints – portraits and group portraits, most unidentified and Mrs. Carl Hederfield, children in school group portrait, and copy prints and Dr. Walter B. Scott and Hon. Robert Norheim
46 5 prints and 1 negative of Bill Shemorry and his mother and father
47 15 copy prints – Main street, parades, Pearl boat on the Missouri River, airplane and coyote pelts, two boys with an outhouse, men and women around a Coca-Cola stand, Aunt Sally Lusten, group portraits, last of the last round-up
48 4 negatives - portraits
49 10 negatives including farming, building construction and a swing set
50 21 negatives including group portraits, theater productions, people in a store
51 31 negatives of people – group portraits of businesses and a family, meetings, shopping, crowds, portraits including babies and a boy with the last name of Moline playing trombone around 1955-1956
52 5 negatives – Service Drug, on corner of Main and 4th street, 1st Building, also in 2nd location in Old Montgomery Ward Building, exterior of buildings
53 12 prints – group and individual portraits of Williston Bowling Association “Hall of Fame” 1980 bowling awards including Myptle Cableman, Ray “Corky” Coughlin, R.G. “Ham” Sawyer, Al Stensby and another man – printed Sept 1980
54 18 prints of men making a metal wheel – printed July 1979
55 9 prints of old tractors, automobiles, storage tanks, and an old wooden cabin
56 25 prints of old and abandoned items including a wind mill and buildings, an oil well that says Mrs. Skogen on the back, gravestones of Mary and Ole D, Dave McNeil Blind 1830-1905, and Freddie son of Alfred and Annie Roe b. Sept 22, 1913 died Mar. 28, 1914; markers that say Howard and Gladys
57 2 color postcards of the Oklahoma State Capital building
58 46 negatives - Miscellaneous negatives to file, about 1945 - 1955, mostly people
59 155 negatives and 1 print – Miscellaneous negatives to be filed, Williston and surrounding area, mostly people, probably 1950’s and 1960’s; individuals, children, parties, anniversaries, and most to be sorted and put into envelopes
60 Williston Herald – Sports negatives: Baseball players at Ray field (3 negatives)
61 baseball - Bob Miller, brother, about 1950 (1 negative)
62 Mrs. Oscar Davidson ? mid 1960’s (1 negative)
63 Fred Hanson 1970’s (2 negatives)
64 Washing machines with crowd, mid 1960’s ? (2 negatives)
65 Dudettes serving food (1 negative)
66 Could be mechanic for Westland oil ? (2 negatives)
67 Gibb Plumb, new steel building, Hw 2 North, 1946 – 1949 (1 negative)
68 Grocery store, could be Red Owl, about 1946 – 1947 (1 negative)
69 University of North Dakota – Williston campus, 1960’s ? (3 negatives)
70 Road on Hill East of Williston (1 negative)
71 School district 8 headquarters – probably beginning of District, late 1940’s or early 1950’s (4 negatives)
72 Dance in basement of South Wing of Central School – could be dress up Party for Halloween (1 negative)
73 Four generation picture – family pictures (2 negatives)
74 Portraits, probably taken by Pasonault, one labeled as Fugelberg (10 negatives)
75 Houses, new construction, Williston 1950’s – also older houses – apartments on West 18th Street, Williston, N.D. (5 negatives)
76 Family Reunions – Birthday gatherings – anniversary gallery (9 negatives)
77 Deer hunting about 1946 to 1949 (1 negative)
78 Williston high school play – in new building 1953 – 1954, several plays? (7 negs)
79 Lewis & Clark landing (?) 1975 – 1978 (7 negatives)
80 Several Banquets in Plainsman Hotel – WS Davidson Jr. and Harry Polk (6 negs)
81 Parade in Williston, N.D. – floats, Conlin Furniture, Marshall Wells, Williams County Farmers Union (3 negatives)
82 Car wreck, 1948 (1 negative)
83 Presentation, group portrait of men wearing suits (2 negatives)
84 Salt & Pepper shaker collection – probably Grenora or somewhere on branch line about 1947 – 1950 (2 negatives)
85 Tioga parade, 1950’s (2 negatives)
86 Coaching school – reporter 1964 (11 negatives)
87 picture of Willys Car in front of Press about 1946 (5 negatives)
88 Star overhead, group of people, must be church groups (1 negative)
89 Epping Dam, probably Old Settlers (2 negatives)
90 Children large group, could be in church (1 negative)
91 Accident – putting someone in ambulance (2 negatives)
92 Kids on load grabber, small car, about 1975 – 1977 (2 negatives)
93 Wreck – trailer house stands on end in ditch, 1946 – 1949 (4 negatives)
94 Moving old school (or church) 1946 – 1949 (2 negatives)
95 Dress-up party, kids – could be Halloween in old Recreation Hall on 5th Ave East 1946 – 1949 (2 negatives)
96 Car wreck, 1949 wagon Lec, about 1950, Buick also Dodge Feuder (3 negatives)
97 Prize winner (1 negative)
98 Young Citizens League Banquet (1 negative)
99 Hatchkiss (?) at Barbecue, probably at State Park, Lake Sakakawea, 1975 – 1977, could be Lions picnic (2 negatives)
100 Group in Plainsman Dining Room – could be Catholic Daughters (2 negatives)
101 Group of women serving food (2 negatives)
102 Group portraits of men (2 negatives)
103 ND Press, women’s convention (3 negatives)
104 Salvation Army, 1970’s (4 negatives)
105 Norwegian costume parade down West Broadway, 1946 – 1949 (1 negative)
106 Salvation Army, about 1975 – 1977, could be Harry Guttromson (2 negatives)
107 School auditorium decorated & banquet there with parents – could be Wheelock, 1946 – 1948 (2 negatives)
108 Boy Scouts (1 negative)
109 Houses, Jess Joseph’s, Ralph L__ and others (6 negatives)
110 High school students being lectured in field house (2 negatives)
111 Little boy on steps – probably school, 1946 – 1949 (1 negative)
112 Eight grade or high school graduation, in front of library, 1946 – 1949 (4 negs)
113 Girl Scouts, 1946 – 1949, poised group (1 negative)
114 Blue Birds (3 negatives)
115 Camp Fire Girls in MDU Show rooms (3 negatives)
116 Elks gathering, Dean Winkjer & women (2 negatives)
117 Elks Dinner, 1948 in basement, Jess Howard, Tony Thomas, Jess Joseph (1 neg)
118 Elks – probably award winners and parents, 1975 – 1977 (4 negatives)
119 Elks women’s lunch, could be Lincoln Tea (1 negative)
120 Dance in Armory (2 negatives)
121 Moose Picnic on Buford Bottoms, Kiddie Race (1 negative)
122 Lunch group of men, Clai Krebsbach, Dean Winkjer (1 negative)
123 two men holding some small thing (2 negatives)
124 Methodist church, building committee, 1953 (2 negatives)
125 Young Boy – could be Corinne’s brother (3 negatives)
126 Sorority, probably Delta Kappa Gamma institution, Sue Lily Wilkinson on pic, call Leah Anderson for details (1 negative)
127 1948, probably Lions in Masonic Dining room (1 negative)
128 Trenton School, probably when Steel Building was new, could be dedication (3 negatives)
129 7 negatives and 1 print - Misc. people
130 26 negatives – aerial views, portraits, horse racing, and children

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