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Title: Theodore  S. Kopseng 
                                                
Date: 1900-1970
Collection Number: 00167
Quantity: 42 items
Abstract: Images of landscapes, buildings and street scenes in Western North Dakota (Bowman and Beulah) and Fargo (N.D.), ranching scenes in the badlands, including Amidon (N.D.). Also includes images of a roundhouse in Wishek (N.D.).
Provenance: The collection was donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota in March 1974 by Theodore (Ted) Kopseng. Collection 00034 was vacated and combined with this collection.
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    Related  Collections:
    MSS 10211  Ted and Louis Kopseng
Biographical Sketch
      From the Bismarck Tribune,  Thursday April 26, 1990
Theodore S. Kopseng, 85, 1015 N.  Third St., died April 24, 1990, in a Bismarck hospital. Services will be held  at 2 p.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church with the Rev. Hesel Hendrickson  officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Bismarck. A Masonic service  will be held at 7 tonight at the funeral home.
    
    Mr. Kopseng was born Aug. 14,  1904 near Harvey. He was raised and educated near Harvey. He took courses in  Grain Elevator Management and commerce at North Dakota Agricultural College and  took accounting courses in the U.S. Army at Savana (Ill.). He managed grain  elevators in the Devils Lake area and later represented Minneapolis grain  commission companies. He married Louise Hanson on Jan. 4, 1944 at Bismarck. He  served in the U.S. Army 259th Ordnance Co. during World War II. He  had grain elevator interests at Clifton, Woodworth and Tuttle, and owned and  operated ranches at Pettibone and Tuttle and a farm in Drake. He was later  active in the apartment business in Bismarck. He suffered from Alzheimer’s  Disease and had been confined to nursing homes since 1983.
    
    He served on the State Historical  Society Board and sang with El Zagal Shrine Plainsmen. He was a charter member  and past president of the Missouri Slope Chapter of the Izaak Walton League,  charter member of the Apple Creek Country Club, member of the American Legion,  Masons, and the Trinity Lutheran Church.
    
    He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Donna Engel and Karen  von Witte, both of New York City; one son, Loren, Bismarck; and five grandchildren. 
    
  PHOTOGRAPHS  INVENTORY
  
    00167-00001 Bullion  Butte & Hall                              
    00167-00002 Bob  Cory at Bullion Butte & Hall 1973           
    00167-00003 Bob  Cory 1973        
    00167-00004 Hotel,  Colfax (N.D.)
    00167-00005 First  Baptist Church Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00006 Harvest  scene Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00007 Red  River, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00008 Driveway  Oak Grove, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00009 Post  Office, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00010 Red  River near Island Park, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00011 Sacred  Heart Academy, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00012 Masonic  Temple, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00013 Gethsemane  Cathedral, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00014 Gethsemane  Cathedral, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00015 First  Presbyterian Church, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00016 First  Methodist Church, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00017 High  School, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00018 Y.M.C.A.,  Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00019 St.  John's Hospital, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00020 St.  Mary's Cathedral and Bishop’s Residence, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00021 Agriculture  College (now NDSU), Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00022 Great  Northern Railway Station (Depot) Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00023 College  Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00024 Fargo  (N.D.)
    00167-00025 Cass  County Court House, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00026 Northern  Pacific Railroad Depot, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00027 Waldorf  Hotel, Fargo (N.D.)
    00167-00028 Fargo  (ND) 1905
    00167-00029 Fargo  (ND) 1876
    00167-00030  Badlands cattle drive 1970      
    00167-00031  Logging Camp Ranch annual cattle roundup 1970      
    00167-00032  Annual Dakota Roundup of the Logging Camp Ranch 1970      
    00167-00033  Ranch-hands from the Logging Camp Ranch on Annual Dakota Roundup 1970      
    00167-00034  Crossing Little Missouri River on the Annual Dakota Roundup of the Logging Camp  Ranch       1970      
    00167-00035  Large group at Stump Lake near Lakota (N.D.) circa 1900
    00167-00036  Logging Camp Ranch Annual Dakota Roundup, Amidon (N.D.)  1970      
    00167-00037  Roundhouse at Wishek (N.D.) 7/2/1941  
    00167-00038  Children on mule in front of a barn circa 1900
    00167-00039  Two men driving a wagon with a mixed team 1925      
    00167-00040  Five men pose beside the Cypert Park marker stone 1958      
    00167-00041  Eugene "Shem" Otto 1960      
    00167-00042  Logging Camp Ranch near Amidon (N.D.) 1960
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