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00201 Carl F. Smith
1908-1941
Primarily postcards sent to the Roy Thompson  farm in South Minnewaukan Township, Ramsey County, (N.D.). Some of the  postcards are written in Norwegian. Only the North Dakota postcards have been  inventoried. (275 items)
00205 Mildred K.  Jahde
  1905-1977
  Images taken by the mother of Mildred Jahde in Mountrail  County N.D. 1912, postcards, coal mines, and a rodeo at Elbowoods ca.  1905-1910. (46 items)
00207 Mrs. Oliver  Usher
1924
Scenes of Bismarck N.D. (5 items)
00210 Fort Totten Indian School
  1900-1908
    Images of Fort Totten Indian School band,  students, employees, and activities.(8 items)
00213 William Sylvester Bailard
1890-1981            
Black and  white and color negatives of biplanes, a school classroom, Company “C” 2nd  Infantry North Dakota National Guard, and major fires in Ambrose (N.D.) in 1959  and 1981. (25 items)
00214 Logan County  Historical Society
  1900-1934
  Images of Y. O. Ranch and Burnstad, N.D. (18 items)
00221 Fort Buford, Fort Union and Williston (ND)
  1880-1912
  Images of people and places including Fort Buford, Fort Peck,  Fort Yates, and Williston (ND) (50 items)
00222 Michigan, North Dakota
  1890-1911
  Photographs of Michigan (ND) families, businesses, and  buildings. (46 items)
00225 Frances Wold
  1908-1952
  Images of people and buildings in Regan, Baldwin,  Canfield, Goodrich, and Wing, ND. (214 items)
00226 Mildred Rothgarn
1886-1962
Images of people, farms, and street scenes in Willow City, Overly, Lake Meigoshe, and Devils Lake (ND). (132 items)
00227 H.T. Ranch
  1883-1975
  Owned  by Arthur Clark Huidekoper, the H.T. Ranch near Amidon covered   portions of  Slope, Stark, and Billings Counties and had more than   10,000 horses. Earl  Huidekoper was the son of ranch founder A. C.   Huidekoper, and Wallis Huidekoper  was A. C.'s nephew. This collection   includes copies of photos of the ranch from  the 1890s to the 1970s. (67 items)
00229 Zip to Zap
May 9-11, 1969
 Images of National Guard and riot police moving students out of Zap (N.D.) during  Zip to Zap, a Grand Festival of Light and Love, on May 9th to 11th 1969. (15 items)
00239 Photograph Collection
  ca. 1879-1957
  Consists of many photographs of Four Bears Bridge  dedication. Also includes the Government Indian School at Wahpeton; Elbowoods  American Legion Post portrait; Standing Rock Indian Camp; and Elbowoods police  chief. Settler photos and post cards depict wheat threshing; Caledonia Mill;  Bismarck firemen; John Deere thresher; Ole Gilbertson farm, Brinsmade; Capital  Aviation; U.S.S. North Dakota; Women’s Temperance march, Devils Lake; Constitutional  Convention reunion; and Fort Rice State Park dedication. Includes buildings and  scenes in Bismarck, Mandan, Mohall, Devils Lake, Linton, Hillsboro, Wilton,  Jamestown, Minot, Valley City, Grand Forks, and Fargo. Photos of people include  Ralf Ward, Floyd Jennings, Rep. Ingard Bjerkan, George Bell, Judge Carmady,  Russell Reid, Davis Hanson, Louis Magin, James W. Foley, Russell L. Cooke,  Andrew A. Bruce, Patricia Larson, B.F. MacCall, and William Jennings Bryan.  There is a photographic copy of a picture of Teddy Roosevelt, ‘Ready for the  Hunt.’ There are many unidentified Native Americans, but also images of Foolish  Bear, Drags Wolf, and Slohan. (174 photographs)
00240 Ray J. Elliot
  1958-1963
    
    Images of State Parks, State Historic Sites, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, National Wildlife Refuges, and coal mines. (120 images) 
00245 Alan Grindberg
1934-ca. 1965
Images of President Franklin Roosevelt visit to Devils Lake  in 1934, hull of the Steamer Minnie H, Governor and Mrs. John Davis and Brynhild  Haugland at the Mandan Refinery, Governor Norman Brunsdale at a Reclamation  meeting, a group of North Dakotas officials at the U.S. Capitol, and Governor  Guy and Walter Hjelle fishing. (29 items)
00247 Clell Gannon
1897, n.d.
Consists of family photos and images of Native Americans. (52 items)
00250 Matt Crowley
n.d.
Images of cattle ranching outside of Hebron, N.D. (20 items)
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