Title: Susan Mitchell
Dates: 1908-ca. 1968
Collection Number: 2017-P-040
Quantity: 16 items
Abstract: Includes photographs of the Oppegard, Watne and Skofstad families, Cooperstown (N.D.), an unidentified group outside a church, wearing ethic clothing, and a souvenir postcard booklet from Tyrol School No. 3, Griggs County (N.D.). The booklet includes a photograph of teacher Ilma Tracey Peabody.
Provenance: Mitchell's son found the photographs in the home he purchased in Mandan (N.D.). Mitchell donated the collection to the SHSND on December 15, 2017.
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Inventory
Box 1:
1 Souvenir booklet from Tyrol School No. 3, Cooperstown, Township 10 (Griggs County, N.D.) with photograph of teacher Mrs. Ilma Tracey Peabody 1908-1909
2 Unidentified group in ethnic clothing outside church ca. 1910
3 Anna Marie Watne dressed for a piano recital ca. 1935
4 Colleen Toring and Anna Marie Watne dressed for a piano recital ca. 1935
5 Ada and Billy, Ada, Ruth Lausch, Bertha Skofstad, Adolph Korsmoe, Ruth, Anna Marie Skofstad, Ralph Gerhardt, Anna Marie Watne ca. 1936
6 Walter and Anna Mable Watne with fish 1948
7 Walter Watne, Grandma Skofstad, Ruth, Adolph, Adah, Anna Marie, Ruth, Billy Ralph Gerhardt, Ada Skofstad ca. 1936
8 Walter Watne, Gerhardt and Ruth Skofstad, Arnold and Edith Skofstad, unidentified, Mable Skofstad Norswing, Ruth Lausch and Hester, unidentified ca. 1936
9 Back: Ruth S. Lausch, Gerhardt Skofstad, Adolph Korsmoe, Edith Skofstad, middle: Heaster Lausch, Ada Skofstad, unidentified Ruth Skofstad, Ralph Skofstad, Anna Marie Skofstad, and Adah S. Watne, on ground: Arnold Skofstad, Anna Marie Watne and Billy ca. 1936
10 Harvey Nyberg Nov 1969
11 Man and woman with catch of fish ca. 1948
12 Arnold Skofstad, Adah Watne, George Bazel, Walter Watne, Alice Bazel, Clara Dunne, Anna Marie Skofstad, Anna Marie Watne Oppegard, Cooperstown (N.D.) ca. 1936
13 Anna Marie Watne Oppegard, Ruth (Gerhardt) Skofstad, Ruth Skofstad (Lausch), Arnold Skofstad, Adah S. Watne, Anna Marie Skofstad, Gerhardt Skofstad, Bertha S. Korsmoe, Walter Watne, and Adolph Korsmoe, Cooperstown (N.D.) ca. 1936
14 Anna Marie Watne Oppegard, Alice Bazel, Adah S. Watne, Clara Dunne, Anna Marie Skofstad, Cooperstown (N.D.) ca. 1936
15 Jerry Oppegard High School graduation portrait ca. 1968
16 Watnes outside their home 8/15/1965
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