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Title: Job V. Harrison
Dates: 1890s-1940s
Collection Number: 00009
Quantity: 28 items
Abstract: Images taken in and around Devils Lake (N.D.) and some unidentified states by Job V. Harrison. Subjects include: homestead shack, school children, Job V. Harrison in sailboat in Devils Lake, Rock Island Steamer, Swimming, Minnie H Steamboat, Chautauqua celebration, war veterans, threshing, straw burner, tar paper shack, Métis, surveyors, Buick automobile, hunting, Fort Totten Indians, A. R. Bragg Mississippi River, Watson sisters burlesque poster.
Provenance: The Job V. Harrison papers were transferred to the State Historical Society of North Dakota by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department in approximately 1964.
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Copyrights: Copyrights to materials in this collection remain with the donor, publisher, author, or author's heirs. Researchers should consult the 1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94-553, Title 17, U.S. Code and an archivist at this repository if clarification of copyright requirements is needed.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Job V. Harrison was born September 12, 1873 at Boone, Indiana. He came to Lakewood (N.D.) in 1910 where he worked as a photographer, then as a carpenter and painter. Harrison died in March 1955.
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00009-001 J. V. Harrison
00009-002 Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-003 Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-004 Sail boat on Devils Lake, Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-005 Rowboat on Devils Lake, Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-006 Steamer Rock Island
00009-007 Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-008 Steamer Minnie H
00009-009 Chautauqua celebration, Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-010 Threshing crew
00009-011 Straw burner
00009-012 Homestead shack
00009-013 Sod houses, Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-014 Family in front of shack, Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-015 Log cabin, Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-016 Tar paper shack, Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-017 Tar paper and Sod House
00009-018 Farm family and buildings
00009-019 Log cabin and Métis, Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-020 Surveying, Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-021 Rock Lake General Store Interior
00009-022 Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-023 Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-024 Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-025 Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-026 Two Native American women standing in front of tipi, Fort Totten (N.D.) 1908-1910
00009-027 Devils Lake (N.D.)
00009-028 Burlesque Poster
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