Photographs - Collections - 2018 - #2018-P-017

Title: Debbie Garrett

Dates: ca. 1930

Collection Number: 2018-P-017

Quantity: 42 items

Abstract: Consists of snapshots of families, residents, and homes in Ward County (N.D.), including the families of Dr. John F. and Lydia Timm and Ed and Rachel Bjornholt, as well as two images of the ruins of the school building in Makoti after the May 13, 1931 fire, and a souvenir booklet of color postcards depicting scenes in the North Dakota Badlands.

Provenance: The collection was donated to the SHSND by Debbie Garrett in April 2018.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Dr. John F. Timm was born in Germany in 1867. He immigrated to the United States at age 17 and went to medical school in Chicago. He practiced medicine in Iowa and Illinois for several years before coming to Emmet Township. Timm married Lydia Wiechman (1877-1951), who worked as a nurse. They had two children, Eulalia Helen (Bjornholt) and Herman M. John and Lydia homesteaded in the northwest corner of Emmet Township in 1905. Lydia died in 1951 and Dr. Timm died in 1954 and is buried at St. Peter Cemetery in Emmet (McLean County, N.D.). The family farm was passed on to Eulalia (Tuimm) Bjornholt and her husband Melvin.

Ed Bjornholt emigrated from Norway to Clarksfield (Minn.) in 1903. The following year, he moved farther west and homesteaded in Blackwater Township, in McLean County (N.D.), Ed, Borger, Antonson, and Konrad Iversonm, all cousins, came to North Dakota and homesteaded in the same area. Ed married Rachel Hanson in 1907. They settled on Rachel's homestead in Romsaas Township (McLean County, N.D.) and had five children: Reuben (who passed away in childhood), Melvin, Louisa, Reuben and Emil.

INVENTORY

00001 – 00002 Ruins of school after May 13, 1931 fire, Makoti (N.D.) 5/17/1931
00003 Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Wickman, Buster and Florence, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Cartwright and Bobbie, and Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Timm and Eulalia outside a residence      7/22/1930
00004 Eulalia Timm sitting on the wall around the roof of the nurses' home ca. 1930
00005 Residences, McLean County (N.D.) 8/22/1926
00006 Group around Theodore Roosevelt statue, Roosevelt Park, Minot (N.D.) 7/23/1930
00007 Residences, McLean County (N.D.) 9/9/1927
00008 Harold Reusch, Merle Gorder, Eivind Berge, Dale Thompson, Harland Thompson, Arnold Rooks, Lawrence Deleforce, Gordon Smith and Eugene Reusch  2/25/1933
00009 Couple outside home, McLean County (N.D.) 4/19/1928
00010 Buffalo, Minot Zoo (N.D.)  10/25/1927
00011 – 00013 Animals, Minot Zoo (N.D.) 10/25/1927
00014 Bear, Minot Zoo (N.D.)     10/25/1927
00015 Mrs. F. V. Spulla with baby 1928
00016 Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Wickman, Buster and Florence, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Cartwright and Bobbie, and Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Timm and Eulalia outside a residence 7/22/1930
00017 Grandma Timm, Louise and Harry Amundson, Melvin, Eulalia and Lois Bjornholt    9/1941
00018 Mr. Mylinbush, Mrs. C. Piel, Mrs. Roy Piel, C. Piel, Roy Piel and Ula Ogilvie on top of bluff  ca. 1935
00019 Minnie, Amelia, Lydia, Otto, Dr. Timm, Eulalia and Melvin 10/4/1933
00020 Henry Oucken, Dick and Minne Seggerman outside the Seggerman home 10/4/1933
00021 Possibly Dr. Timm with Elaine and Marlene Kvam ca. 1930
00022 Grandma, Mrs. Reusch, Erna and Alvin 4/18/1927
00023 August Pawson on porch of home ca. 3/1912
00024 John and Dena Vosberg   1935
00025 Trail in the North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00026 U.S. Highway 10 in the North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00027 Castle of Rock, North Dakota Badlands, postcard  ca. 1949
00028 Historic Chateau de Mores, Medora (N.D.) postcard ca. 1949
00029 Iron Log in Cedar Canyon, North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00030 Rock-Capped Shale Formation, North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00031 Horseshoe Road on Highway 85, North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00032 Cathedral Buttes, North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00033 Petrified Forest Headquarters, North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00034 A Sandstone Pedestal, North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00035 Swimmin' hole at a North Dakota Badlands Dude Ranch postcard  ca. 1949
00036 Little Missouri River, North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00037 Scenic road in North Roosevelt Park, North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00038 Statue of Marquis De Mores in Medora (N.D.) postcard ca. 1949
00039 Middle Entrance, Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, North Dakota Badlands postcard  ca. 1949
00040 Nature's Pulpit, North Dakota Badlands postcard  ca. 1949
00041 Cedar Canyon from U.S. Highway 10, North Dakota Badlands postcard ca. 1949
00042 Theodore Roosevelt Cabin, North Dakota State Capitol grounds, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1949

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