Title: Monson Family
Dates: ca. 1916-1919
Collection Number: 10669
Quantity: 514 negatives and prints
Abstract: Photograph collection includes images of families, agricultural activities and implements, children at play, animals, farmstead buildings, home interiors (furniture, textiles), community activities, recreational activities, churches, towns, schools, construction on farmstead buildings, and men leaving for Camp Dodge, IA (1917). Most of the images were taken in Walsh County (ND) in the 1910s, although the collection includes images in Gladmar, Saskatchewan, Canada. The photographs were in processing envelopes with the names of the three Monson daughters on them, Anna, Laura, and Selma.
Provenance: The collection was given to Jim Sperry in February 1995 with no information.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
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
David A. Monson came to America from Norway in 1879 and to Walsh County in 1882 to homestead in Tiber Township. He married Andrine Hilde in 1884 shortly after she arrived from Norway. Their children were Melvin, Carl, Anna, Dorthe, David, Alfred, Laura, and Selma. Andrine Monson died May 12, 1929. David Monson died February 3, 1939. Alfred continued to live on the family farm until he died in 1968.
Anna D. Monson was born March 10, 1886 in Dewey Township, Walsh County and lived on the family farm with her parents and brother Alfred until 1946. Until 1958 she lived with her brother Carl and his wife and spent the last two years of her life in a hospital. She died September 22, 1960 in Grafton. She was a lifelong member of the Odahlen Lutheran Church and was buried in the cemetery there.
Laura Josephine Monson was born in Adams, ND February 24, 1894. She married Christ Haarsager and had two children, Carsten and Anne. They lived in Edinburg. Laura Haarsager died September 21, 1944 in Tacoma, Washington.
Selma Amelia Monson was born October 15, 1895. She attended Concordia College, the Union Commercial College, and had a year of training at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fargo. She was organist at Odahlen Lutheran Church for 13 years. She died March 10, 1947 and was buried at Odahlen Church Cemetery.
INVENTORY
Collection Note: Unless otherwise noted, the photographs were probably taken in Walsh County (ND) in the 1910s.
Item number/Description
10669-001 Young boy watching carousel ride at a fair
10669-002 Boy seated on piano bench inside house
10669-003 Three children outside
10669-004 Cattle
10669-005 Group outside house in the winter
10669-006 Group outside house with automobile
10669-007 Group going ice skating
10669-008 Men on horseback
10669-009 Child sleeping on floor
10669-010 Children seated on piano bench inside house
10669-011 Girl seated on piano bench inside house
10669-012 Boys riding toy horses in house
10669-013 Cattle grazing
10669-014 Woman with children outside farm house
10669-015 Group of women around sled
10669-016 Four women outside house
10669-017 Woman outside house
10669-018 Group in winter clothing outside house
10669-019 Women and children outside house
10669-020 Three children in living room next to piano
10669-021 Two children in living room next to piano
10669-022 Monson sisters and others on the Carpenter-Neumann Bridge
10669-023 Girl on wagon in front of house (double exposure)
10669-024 Three children outside house
10669-025 Boys riding toy horses in house
10669-026 Women sitting on front porch
10669-027 Group outside house
10669-028 Group outside house
10669-029 Large group outside house
10669-030 Dog on lawn in front of house
10669-031 Children in living room
10669-032 Girls with their backs to the camera
10669-033 Three children standing near a piano
10669-034 Two girls standing near house
10669-035 Group on sleigh
10669-036 Up-close view of a woman
10669-037 Woman standing in field
10669-038 Group in front of wagon
10669-039 Two people standing in front of barn
10669-040 Children playing outside house or school
10669-041 Group outside house
10669-042 Woman holding baby outside house
10669-043 Group on horseback
10669-044 Group inside house reading books
10669-045 Man and two women outside
10669-046 Woman standing outside
10669-047 Children performing multiplication on chalkboard
10669-048 Group outside
10669-049 Man and woman in field
10669-050 Man holding boy, seated inside house, March 1917
10669-051 Man and two women walking in road
10669-052 Man on horseback herding horses
10669-053 Two older women sitting inside house
10669-054 Two women inside house
10669-055 Three children on front porch of house
10669-056 Group outside of house in winter
10669-057 Creek
10669-058 Women playing outside
10669-059 Woman standing on swing
10669-060 Two men seated, child on lap
10669-061 Bear
10669-062 Woman working in field
10669-063 Barn
10669-064 Woman seated on piano bench holding child
10669-065 Group on front porch of house
10669-066 Barn and two children
10669-067 Two women, seated, in house
10669-068 Child outside, farm building in background
10669-069 Man farming, back to camera
10669-070 Snow drift on farmstead
10669-071 Two children inside house
10669-072 Man and two women standing in road
10669-073 Children inside house
10669-074 Two women standing in road
10669-075 Woman standing inside house
10669-076 Group on porch
10669-077 Cattle
10669-078 Children on chairs inside house
10669-079 Man and woman outside
10669-080 Small cemetery
10669-081 Horses
10669-082 Group eating
10669-083 Woman by waterfront
10669-084 Man and boy by cart and automobile
10669-085 Man with horses working field
10669-086 (double exposure) group playing
10669-087 Woman and child beside house
10669-088 Woman inside house
10669-089 Barn and farm building
10669-090 Horses and barn
10669-091 View of farmstead
10669-092 chickens outside farmhouse
10669-093 Five children in front of piano
10669-094 Woman with four children among trees
10669-095 Girl petting dog in front of house
10669-096 Children swinging near picnic table
10669-097 Two children on swing
10669-098 Group outside farm house
10669-099 Boy feeding chickens
10669-100 Table with flower arrangement on front porch
10669-101 Child outside house in winter clothing
10669-102 Group outside farm house
10669-103 Children outside house
10669-104 View of farmstead
10669-105 Two men looking out window, leaving for Camp Dodge, IA, September 15, 1917
10669-106 Baby standing on chair
10669-107 Walking on farmstead
10669-108 Group portrait
10669-109 Baby asleep on floor
10669-110 Swimming
10669-111 Four young men, leaving for Camp Dodge, IA, September 15, 1917
10669-112 Group, September 15, 1917
10669-113 On the way to Camp Dodge, IA, September 15, 1917
10669-114 Man on horseback
10669-115 Baby sitting on chair
10669-116 Barn
10669-117 Group with automobiles
10669-118 Group outside building
10669-119 Baby sitting on floor
10669-120 Baby sitting on floor
10669-121 Group outside building
10669-122 Child on chair
10669-123 Man in automobile
10669-124 Child outside in winter clothing
10669-125 Child in chair and Victrola
10669-126 Two children riding horse scooters
10669-127 Children performing multiplication on chalkboard
10669-128 Clipping from a publication, Fargo, North Dakota Office Building, Offices Occupy
Entire Building (Lincoln National, Pioneer Life, Life Insurance Company) with handwritten note “a picture of my Fargo home”
10669-129 Dog on ground in front of house
10669-130 Group sitting on front steps of house
10669-131 Farm wagons
10669-132 Dog in grass
10669-133 Two girls with backs to camera, bows in hair
10669-134 Couple with child inside house
10669-135 Group near automobile
10669-136 Children sitting on fence
10669-137 Two girls with backs to camera, bows in hair
10669-138 Horse and buggy outside church
10669-139 Horse-drawn sleigh
10669-140 Group outside house
10669-141 Group outside house
10669-142 Man driving automobile
10669-143 Man on ladder
10669-144 Street scene in town
10669-145 Child on porch
10669-146 Group portrait
10669-147 House with scaffolding
10669-148 House with scaffolding
10669-149 Woman standing in front of trees
10669-150 Barn
10669-151 Group outside
10669-152 Tractor
10669-153 Farmstead
10669-154 House
10669-155 Unknown
10669-156 Man carrying buckets near farmhouse
10669-157 Man and girl with lunch pails, farming in background
10669-158 Man walking
10669-159 View of sky and farm building
10669-160 View of sky and trees
10669-161 Two women in entrance to cook car
10669-162 Group in horse-drawn wagon
10669-163 Man on barn scaffolding
10669-164 Couple, automobile and barn
10669-165 Woman driving horse drawn buggy
10669-166 Women on barn scaffolding
10669-167 Barn construction, roofing
10669-168 Woman on house scaffolding
10669-169 Women and automobile
10669-170 Horse-drawn buggy
10669-171 Man in front of fence
10669-172 Men on ladder and house scaffolding
10669-173 Group and automobiles
10669-174 Couple with St. Anthony Elevator in background
10669-175 Standing on a hay wagon outside barn
10669-176 Hay wagon and barn filled with hay
10669-177 Three children having an outdoor picnic
10669-178 Two women on barn scaffolding
10669-179 Two women on barn scaffolding
10669-180 Children on front steps of house
10669-181 Women outside chuck wagon
10669-182 Two boys with dog on farmstead
10669-183 Women and children inside home
10669-184 Children outside school
10669-185 Barn construction
10669-186 Farmstead
10669-187 Man with horse on farmstead
10669-188 People outside
10669-189 Person outside farm building
10669-190 Children outside home, siding on home is under construction
10669-191 Group planning construction work on farm
10669-192 Three children in a baby buggy
10669-193 Man with horses
10669-194 Group portrait outside
10669-195 Woman with horse, group by barn
10669-196 Woman on front steps of home
10669-197 Children on front steps of home
10669-198 No negative
10669-199 Trees on farmstead
10669-200 Children in Deere Webber wagon
10669-201 Woman, might be inside house
10669-202 Man and woman sitting in the grass
10669-203 Dog and farm buildings
10669-204 Woman eating
10669-205 Dog on front steps of house
10669-206 Man inspecting bridge under repair
10669-207 Group at July 4th festivities, might be fixing a flat tire
10669-208 Men in automobile approaching festivities, probably July 4, 1918
10669-209 Scenic view
10669-210 Man with horse-drawn cart approaching bridge repair
10669-211 Man inspecting bridge under repair
10669-212 Swimming
10669-213 Unidentified school
10669-214 Women on porch, one is reading a book
10669-215 Two men repairing bridge
10669-216 Group on shore watching group in boat
10669-217 Two men taking a break from farming to have photo taken with two children
10669-218 People sitting on porch of house
10669-219 Large gathering in town, probably for July 4th
10669-220 Women outside of a farm house
10669-221 Monson sister on the Carpenter-Neumann Bridge
10669-222 Anna, Laura and Selma Monson on the Carpenter-Neumann Bridge
10669-223 Woman on scaffolding
10669-224 Man inside home
10669-225 Woman inside home
10669-226 Woman with three children inside home
10669-227 Woman tending to baby in crib
10669-228 Unidentified
10669-229 Unidentified
10669-230 People inside home
10669-231 Person inside home
10669-232 People inside home
10669-233 Children on front steps of house
10669-234 Children outside house
10669-235 View of farmstead
10669-236 Farm buildings
10669-237 Group gathered around fence
10669-238 Construction on farm
10669-239 Cattle
10669-240 Utility pole
10669-241 Group with wagons on farmstead
10669-242 Probably Carsten and Anne Haarsager with teddy bear
10669-243 Group on porch
10669-244 Woman inside home
10669-245 Man and woman walking on farmstead
10669-246 People on farmstead
10669-247 Man waving, walking away from house
10669-248 Woman holding child inside house
10669-249 Woman holding child inside house
10669-250 Man on ladder propped against tree
10669-251 Girls on front steps of house
10669-252 Woman with baby on lap, seated on porch
10669-253 Group on hay pile
10669-254 Girl and boy shaking hands
10669-255 Group playing in the snow
10669-256 Child outside in winter clothing
10669-257 View of farmstead
10669-258 Cat drinking from bowl
10669-259 Harvesting corn
10669-260 Woman pulling three children in wagon
10669-261 Three people in Moline horse drawn wagon
10669-262 Women outside chuck wagon
10669-263 Man holding child inside house
10669-264 Children inside house
10669-265 People inside house
10669-266 Breaking sod with plows
10669-267 Man in horse drawn wagon
10669-268 Woman seated at piano
10669-269 Women playing the piano
10669-270 Young woman with her hair down
10669-271 Young woman with her hair down
10669-272 Girls seated at piano with dolls
10669-273 Large group portrait
10669-274 Large group portrait
10669-275 Two Monson sisters with horse drawn sleigh
10669-276 Probably Carsten and Anne Haarsager
10669-277 Group outside farm house
10669-278 Young woman combing her hair
10669-279 Two Monson sisters in living room
10669-280 Exterior of farm house
10669-281 Two Monson sisters in living room
10669-282 Probably Laura Josephine (Monson) Haarsager with baby inside kitchen
10669-283 Group outside farm house
10669-284 Horses working in field (might be cutting grain or hay)
10669-285 Person walking through field
10669-286 Woman standing in field
10669-287 Unidentified - overexposed
10669-288 Unidentified - overexposed
10669-289 Unidentified - overexposed
10669-290 Unidentified - overexposed
10669-291 Might be view of farmstead
10669-292 Pet asleep on chair (dog or cat)
10669-293 Two women assisting another down from ladder
10669-294 Women inside house
10669-295 Women inside house
10669-296 Man in rocking chair
10669-297 Women seated inside house
10669-298 Girls seated at piano with dolls
10669-299 Man seated inside house
10669-300 Horses pulling sled with people through snow
10669-301 Two children seated at piano
10669-302 Women gathered around flagpole, two are standing on a chair
10669-303 Children seated at piano
10669-304 Baby sitting on chair
10669-305 Two children seated on a chair
10669-306 Man on horseback
10669-307 Woman and child inside home
10669-308 Children seated at piano
10669-309 Baby in chair
10669-310 Woman inside house
10669-311 Man seated inside house
10669-312 Woman playing the piano
10669-313 Woman holding child inside house
10669-314 Two women and a man standing outside a house
10669-315 Woman seated on fence post
10669-316 Five women standing outside house
10669-317 Women exiting outhouse
10669-318 Five women and flag pole
10669-319 Five women standing and sitting on agricultural implement
10669-320 Five women standing among trees
10669-321 Women on and around fence
10669-322 Women in and around wagon
10669-323 Women sitting on men’s laps outside house
10669-324 View of house from distance
10669-325 View of farmstead
10669-326 Man working on farm
10669-327 Utility poles
10669-328 Trees
10669-329 Person at dinner table
10669-330 Piano, probably in Monson farm house
10669-331 Probably Monson and Haarsager families outside Monson home
10669-332 Probably Carsten and Anne Haarsage having tea party
10669-333 View of town, including White Kitchen Restaurant and Sheridan Café
10669-334 Monsons at convergence of ND, MT, and Canada
10669-335 Group having picnic lunch on farm
10669-336 Group with pet badgers
10669-337 Five women with dog
10669-338 View of town or farmstead
10669-339 Girl in chair
10669-340 Man and woman outside house
10669-341 Woman and automobile
10669-342 Women in front of house
10669-343 Horses
10669-344 View of farmstead
10669-345 Animals in pen
10669-346 Man and woman in field
10669-347 Dog asleep in chair
10669-348 View of town or farmstead
10669-349 View of farm land
10669-350 View of farm land
10669-351 Man and boy holding badgers
10669-352 Two people on chairs outside house
10669-353 Threshing corn
10669-354 Canadian bank of commerce, probably Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-355 Child sitting on chair in living room
10669-356 View of street in Omemee, ND
10669-357 Children in foreground, agricultural scene in background
10669-358 Man and two women outside chuck wagon
10669-359 Bundling wheat
10669-360 Church, might be in Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-361 Business district
10669-362 Passengers at Rolette train station
10669-363 Three people in entrance to chuck wagon
10669-364 View of town
10669-365 Barn construction
10669-366 Child standing in wagon
10669-367 Child standing in wagon
10669-368 Two men standing outside chuck wagon
10669-369 Agricultural scene
10669-370 Group playing horseshoes
10669-371 Man on horseback
10669-372 Women inside house
10669-373 Horses and hay stack
10669-374 Boy outside
10669-375 View of woods
10669-376 Women hugging outside house
10669-377 View of woods
10669-378 Man in tree
10669-379 Group around sleigh
10669-380 Horse
10669-381 Wagon
10669-382 Hay stack
10669-383 Group stacking hay
10669-384 Threshing corn
10669-385 Man walking near threshing scene
10669-386 Threshing
10669-387 Agricultural workers taking a break
10669-388 Horses
10669-389 Four men and two women
10669-390 Threshing corn
10669-392 Barn
10669-393 Man, up close
10669-394 House
10669-395 Man laying on bench
10669-396 Group with wagons and equipment
10669-397 Man walking
10669-398 Man in horse drawn wagon
10669-399 View of farmstead
10669-400 View of butte
10669-401 View of farmstead
10669-402 Group in automobile near butte
10669-403 People on hill
10669-404 Print – woman with children
10669-405 Man with agricultural equipment
10669-406 Man with tractor
10669-407 Threshing scene
10669-408 Threshing scene
10669-409 Sleigh outside house
10669-410 Man readying automobile for July 4th celebration
10669-412 Threshing corn
10669-413 Man with tractor and disk in field
10669-414 Group in automobile
10669-415 Man on horse drawn implement working in field
10669-416 Threshing scene
10669-417 Automobile outside house
10669-418 Threshing scene
10669-419 Threshing scene
10669-420 Agricultural workers eating lunch
10669-421 Threshing corn
10669-422 Horse drinking
10669-423 Group with automobile
10669-424 Group with automobile
10669-425 Cutting wheat or hay
10669-426 “Some in Canada, some in ND and some in MT”
10669-427 Gathering hay in wagon
10669-428 Man standing among automobiles on farmstead, 1917
10669-429 Group in automobile
10669-430 Group in automobile
10669-431 “climbing the hill with a Ford”
10669-432 Parked automobile with flags for July 4th celebration
10669-433 Plowing
10669-434 Seeding
10669-435 Plowing and seeding
10669-436 Plowing and seeding
10669-437 Men with agricultural equipment
10669-438 Men with agricultural equipment
10669-439 Men with agricultural equipment
10669-440 Man in “C. R. Monson, Adams NoDak” wagon
10669-441 Older woman with children and baby inside house
10669-442 Child sitting on agricultural equipment
10669-443 Man outside train station
10669-444 Little girl in a stroller in living room
10669-445 View of town
10669-446 Men in front of chuck wagon
10669-447 Large group of children surrounding an automobile
10669-448 Men with steam powered tractor
10669-449 Filling in pit silo with corn
10669-450 Typical school in Canada, Gladmar, SK
10669-451 Coal mine
10669-452 Coal mine
10669-453 Coal mine
10669-454 View of “the village beautiful,” Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-455 Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-456 Group on steps outside house
10669-457 A bachelor’s house in Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-458 Stepping from Canada to ND
10669-459 Visitors to the bachelor’s house, Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-460 Group outside house
10669-461 Women with young child outside house
10669-462 Group with baby in the grass
10669-463 Waiting for the owner, probably outside bachelor’s house in Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-464 “Sleeping beauty”
10669-465 A busy day at Gladmar, SK, Canada, 1917
10669-466 Three children on couch inside house
10669-467 Unidentified
10669-468 Boy listening to a Victrola inside house
10669-469 Two girls with their dolls inside house
10669-470 Large group at celebration with May pole
10669-471 Group at celebration with May pole
10669-472 Men with agricultural equipment
10669-473 Men with agricultural equipment
10669-474 Haying
10669-475 Automobile parked outside house
10669-476 Threshing
10669-477 Corn husking operation
10669-478 People outside house
10669-479 People in grass on farmstead
10669-480 Women and child outside house
10669-481 Women and child outside house
10669-482 Couple with child and horses
10669-483 Couple with child and horses
10669-484 Group outside house with horse drawn wagon, might be Gladmar, SK, Canada,
June 19, 1917
10669-485 Woman seated inside house with plants
10669-486 Woman holding child inside house
10669-487 Group in grass on farmstead
10669-488 A Canadian home, Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-489 A bachelor and home, Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-490 Three women with hats outside home
10669-491 Woman with child, Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-492 Groups walking in grass near home
10669-493 Group looking at a structure, probably a grain bin
10669-494 Farmstead, Gladmar, SK, Canada
10669-495 Child outside home
10669-496 Group gathered around flag
10669-497 Group gathered around flag
10669-498 Plowing
10669-499 Girl seated inside home
10669-500 Two people next to farm building
10669-501 Boy seated on staircase
10669-502 Young child on farmstead
10669-503 Three children outside, seated on wagon
10669-504 Men seated inside house, one is holding a boy
10669-505 Girls with toys inside house
10669-506 Woman holding baby inside house
10669-507 Group inside house
10669-508 Two girls seated at piano
10669-509 Plowing
10669-510 Group inside house
10669-511 Horse drawn sleigh
10669-512 Cows
10669-513 Child pushing another child in sled
10669-514 Woman and two girls seated at piano
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