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00701 Irene Lane
    ca. 1916
      
      Copies of three black and white photographs of the Carson Hotel and Main Street, Carson (N.D.). (3 items)
    00702 Nancy Hendrickson
    1927-1960
    One early image of Nancy Hendrickson and the remainder from  the 1950s of Nancy and her husband Carl. (11 items)
00709 Pembina Museum
    1905-1989
    Images of Pembina homes, businesses, floods, residents and  officials, baseball teams, churches, and horses pulling planes across the  Canadian border before the WWII Lend Lease program began. (294 items)
00712 Hurdsfield ND Basketball
    1952-1955
    Team portraits include Coach Doug Oglesby with 1954-1955 team and trophy, Gene Grimm, Lanny Rhone, Bob Knecht, Don Tadtke, Ron Haux, Leslie Thompson, Ted Rall, Neale 'Lefty' Rhone, Nayland Mulke, Don Grimm, and Jim Rauser. 1952-1953 team includes Myron Olsen, Dick Pulp, Nayland Mulke, Norman Weckerly, Peter Rauser, James Rauser, Walter 'Bud' Gardy, Lanny Rhone, Lefty Rhone, Don Grimm, and Bob Knecht. (3 items)
    
    00713 Homemade Automobile
    1911
    Image of Bennett Rockney of Portland ND sitting in his homemade auto, a Rockney. (1 item)
    
    
    00715 Bismarck Indian School
    1934-1935
Black and white copy portraits and group photographs of students at the Bismarck Indian School. (106 items)
00724 Vern Tveton
  1913-1930
Copies of photographs of homesteads, a school, a mine, and  threshing in Divide and Williams counties. (30 items)
00727 Frank Vyzralek
    Black and white copy images of the Steamer Gordon Fawcett, a Valley City Street and Inter-urban Railway car, a Wahpeton-Breckinridge St. Ry. car, a Bismarck Capitol Line car, a Fargo-Moorhead Street Railway car, portraits of Ryland Black and A. C. Berg,  and the Edgeley, ND Depot. (27 items)
00729 Wahpeton N.D.
  ca. 1910
  Images of parks, schools, and churches in Wahpeton N.D. (17 items)
00734 Debra Hall  Hertz
circa 1875-1975
Images of students at Fargo College ca. 1912-1916 and images  of people at Fort Berthold Reservation, the Mission, Reverend and Mrs. Harold  Case, and buildings moved because of the Garrison Dam in the 1950s. (43 items)
00737 North Dakota  Conference of Methodist Churches
    1899-1968
    Images of Methodist churches across North Dakota, ministers,  lay persons, congregations, choirs, Wesley College, Wesley Acres Camp, annual  conferences, and various celebrations such as the 75th anniversary  of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. (458 items, plus slides and  negatives)
  
00738 Erastus Appleman Williams
    1878-1969
     Portraits of E.  A. Williams,  his family, and members of his  wife’s family, the Hettingers.  Photos of family friends, Christmas card  photos, and photos of early Bismarck (DT and ND) are also present. (157 items)
    
  
00739 North Dakota Baptist Photographs
    ca. 1860-1950
    Consists of images of church buildings; pastors and families;  state and national conventions; architectural styles of different cultures and  ethnicities, including dugouts, log cabins, and Russian thatched roofs. Church  activities and the 1934 jubilee are also included. One scrapbook contains  portraits of John Grass, Tim Enemy, Low Dog, and Red Tomahawk. Subjects include  an Indian pastor; Rev. Thoralsen with Mrs. Walker and child; Dr. Stockmand and  Mary Crawler; Sioux camp after Custer battle; Whitestone Hill battle; Indian  woman with travois; government distribution of oxen to Sioux, Fort Yates;  Indians at dedication of Roosevelt Memorial Bridge across the Little Missouri;  Indians on horseback; an eagle staff and Sioux and Mandan; several Crow Indian  photos; as well as Baptist Indian missions at Crow Agency and Lodge Grass MY.  Also included are post cards of forts Rice, Buford, Abercrombie, Pembina,  Clark, and Totten. (2 scrapbooks)
00740 Fred Reierson
ca. 1900-1920
Photographs taken by Fred Reierson of Emmons County (ND).  Many are unidentified portraits of individuals and groups along with farming  scenes, the Missouri River, and people playing music.
00743 Fred A. Harvey
  1920-1960
    Postcards of North Dakota towns, photos of the 1943 Mandan flood, scrapbook about  the Bismarck Police Department, and a photo album of Company “M” 4th  Infantry at Fort Lincoln (ND), Fort Lawton (WA), Camp Lewis (WA), and the Presidio, San Francisco (CA) from 1921-1928. The photo album also includes images of a war film shot at Camp Lewis (WA), "The Patent Leather Kid". (127 items and 1 scrapbook)
00745 Belle Mehus
  ca. 1920s-1974
    Images of Belle Mehus, her music students, and  her Conservatory in Bismarck. (20 items)
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