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2009-P-001 State Historical Society of North Dakota
2009
Images taken by State Historical Society of North Dakota  staff to document agency events.
 
2009-P-002 Crosby High School
  1931, 1971 images of the high school in Crosby, including  one of the fire in 08-1971 and the 1931 graduating class. (3 items)
 
2009-P-003 Gustav and Dorthea (Glasoe) Renden North Dakota  trip to Norway 
  1914
  Photographs of the 1914 trip of North Dakotans to Norway for  the delivery of the Abraham Lincoln bust taken by donor's great-grandparents,  Gustav and Dorthea (Glasoe) Renden of Mandan (ND). (103 items)
 
2009-P-004 Chapman Post Cards
  1910-1940
  Photographs of the State Penitentiary, the old State Capitol,  Liberty Memorial Bridge in Bismarck in 1927, the bridge and courthouse at  Center ND and a church in Crosby ND. (5 items)
 
2009-P-005 Pembina ND Album
  1900-1920
  Photograph album with 11 images of churches, school, and  prominent family homes in early Pembina. Included are the Presbyterian Church,  Grace Episcopal Church, Roman Catholic Church, the Courthouse, Cavileer Street  corner, Winchester House, Charles Cavileer post office and home, Public School  Building, Pembina River Bridge, Mrs. H. Kabernagle, and H.C. Feldman  residences. (1v)
 
2009-P-006 Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge and Alkmaar Netherlands
  1910-1927
  Photograph of a Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge circa  1910-1912 and postcard of Verplaatste Accijnstoren-Alkmaar (Excise Tower in  Alkmaar Netherlands). (2 items)
 
2009-P-008 Bruce Wendt
  2004
  Photographs of U.S. Senator and eventual Democratic  Presidential Nominee John Kerry, D-Massachusetts taken February 1, 2004 at a  campaign rally at the Fargo Air Museum, Fargo, ND, by the donor. Photos are of  Kerry addressing the crowd from a stage and sitting and visiting with  reporters. (3 items)
2009-P-009  Prall Family
  ca. 1914-1922
  Images  the Prall family and friends, the Security State Bank, and family home in Brantford, Eddy County, ND.   (37 images)
 
2009-P-010 Mandan Morning Pioneer
  1950-1980
  Black and white, Polaroids/wire service photos/news photographs from the Mandan Pioneer newspaper. 
  (8,754 images, card index)
 
2009-P-011 Disasters
  2009
  Images documenting the blizzards and resultant floods of 2009. One taken at the Jodi Rae Ingstad farm located 3.5 miles from Lake Ashtabula near Valley City, ND. That is our Ford F-150 pickup truck surrounded by the art God provided in the form of swirling snow. The next photo is of Faust Park Dam near Lake Ashtabula. Taken 4/17/09 - - Notice the popular, well-travelled road simply disappears off the bridge. The road leading up hill from here is eroding away quickly from water seeping under the sand. (2 items)  
 
2009-P-012 Ronald Larsen
  ca. 1923
  Images from album pages of Signa Hermanson (Larsen), circa 1923 Burke County ND who worked in cook cars. (12 items)  
 
2009-P-013 Connelly Family Berthold ND
  1910-1930
  Photographs of the Connelly family of Berthold ND in front of Connelly home, laundry business and portrait of Mary Connelly. (3 items) 
 
2009-P-014 Lenore Jensen
  1950, 1980
  Images of the 1950 flood in Pembina ND and a photo of Lenore Jenson 1980. (51 items) 
2009-P-015 Women Suffragettes, Havana ND
  1912
  Image of July 4th parade in Havana ND with women suffragettes leading in white dresses and umbrellas. (1 item)  
 
2009-P-016 Thomas Clifford
  1971-2009
  Images documenting the life of Thomas Clifford President of University of North Dakota. (103 items) 
 
2009-P-017 Blizzard
  2009
  Images of blizzard conditions in North Dakota in 2009. (4 items)  
 
2009-P-018 George and Erma Frederick
  1900-1920
  Glass plates, nitrate, and acetate negatives, possibly taken by Nancy Hendrickson of Mandan ND, agriculture, and Native Americans. (35 items)  
 
2009-P-019 Elsie R. (Milde) Amundson
  1900-1930
  Photos, genealogy, and ephemera. (33 items)  
 
2009-P-020 Ringstrom Family
  1910-1930
  Original crayon photos of Samuel Ringstrom and Anna Ringstrom of Minnewauken Township Ramsey CT and copy photo of three sisters taken by Palace Studios in Denver CO. (2 items) 
 2009-P-021 Margaret  Lehrke
  1950-1969
 Slides of farm life from the 1950s-1960s near Courtenay, ND  and family trips around the world. (1ft)
 
2009-P-022 Oscar Zero State Historic Site
  2006
  Photographs taken of Oscar Zero State Historic Site on October 6, 2006. (67 items)  
 
2009-P-023 Oscar Zero State Historic Site
  2008
  Photographs taken of Oscar Zero State Historic Site on April 8, 2008. (21 items)  
 
2009-P-024 Oscar Zero State Historic Site Grand Opening
  2009
  Photographs taken by Beth Campbell of Oscar Zero Historic Site Grand Opening on July 31st 2009. (118 items)  
 
2009-P-025 Oscar Zero State Historic Site
  2008-2009
  Miscellaneous historic photographs taken of missile sites. (11 items)
2009-P-026 Bismarck Tribune
    1973-1985
    Negatives, prints and newspaper tear sheets of images taken by Doug Van Tassel,  former Bismarck Tribune Photographer used in publication of Bismarck Tribune. (20ft)

2009-P-027 
    Leo W. Hess with 81st Field Artillery Band, Camp Knox, Kentucky
    July 13, 1921
    Panoramic photograph of the 81st Field Artillery Band, Camp Knox, KY, taken  by Camp Studio #6021. Leo W. Hess of Glen Ullin, ND is located tenth from the left. (1 item)
 
  2009-P-029    Chuck Parkman Missile Silo 
    1964-1966
    Digital scans of black and white photographs of Chuck Parkman and others constructing missile silos K, L, M, N, and O. Most of the photographs have Mr. Parkman's identifying system written on the left side of the photograph. His classification follows: L-16 – steel beams with primer cord to simulate one third the strength of a bomb blast to see what damage it would do to a missile; O-24 to 45 – dug twenty seven feet down, built capsule, poured outer wall where they put computers – the round part is the generator for firing a missile; N-33 - cap for top – also excavated a pit twenty seven  feet deep here; O-46 – liner they put in when the hole was too wet to auger lower the cylinder (the inside of the silo); L-16 – cherry picker putting pump in hole to pump water out of hole; O-43 – rain and snow caved site in; and O-46 silo – dug down until they found shale. (32 images)
 
2009 P-030 Bruce Paulson
  1950
  Images of the Lee-Evanson Photo Studio in Grand Forks ND  with brother Bruce Paulson and of the Grand Forks Flood circa 1950 taken by  Bruce Paulson. (2 items)
 
  2009-P-031 Guthmiller and Dockter Family
    1940-1950
    Images of World War II, majority are photos of Adolf Guthmiller and Dockter families and a colored image of St. Avold's Cemetery in France where Guthmiller is buried. (83 items)
2009-P-032 Robert Schacht
1922, n.d.
Photographs, one of Theodore Roosevelt's cabin on the North  Dakota Capitol grounds and the other of the Elks swimming pool in Bismarck, ND.  (2 items)
2009-P-033 Tanner #1 School, Kidder County ND
  ca. 1905
  Teacher and students inside Tanner #1 School in Kidder County ND.  Image includes Anton Iszler in first row with the remainder of students and teacher identified by Emma Iszler. (1 item)
2009-P-034 
    Pembina Flood
    2001
    Photographs of flooding in Pembina ND area in May of 2001.  Photographed by Michael J. Bailey and Gerry Baldock. (29 items)
2009-P-035 North Dakota Post Cards
1950
Epko Film Service color postcards of the equestrian statue  of Theodore Roosevelt in Minot ND, flaming maples in the International Peace  Garden, and the dam on the DeLacs River northwest of Minot ND. (3 items)
2009-P-036 Netzer Family
    Six photographs of Netzer Family circa late 1890s;  half-tone aerial photograph of Hazen (ND);  photograph of train crash with car and engine in water; photograph of wagons delivering milk to Krem Creamery. (9 items)
 
2009-P-037 Magnus Theodore Ulrickson
  1930
  Head and shoulders portrait of Magnus Theodore Ulrickson  taken by Welch in Mandan ND. (1 item)
 
2009-P-038 Katie Graf Donczik General Store New Salem ND 
  ca. 1915
  Glass plate negative of Katie (Graf) Donczik and Miss Klussman, a sales clerk in General Store in New Salem ND. (1 item)
 
2009-P-039 
  Francine Fiske
  ca. 1940-1950
  Studio portrait of Francine Fiske in photograph folder, inscribed to Mrs. Joe (Catherine) Holzer. (1 item)

2009-P-040 Threshing in York ND
1909
Black and white copy photograph of threshing scene broken  into three separate photographs; copied from copies, no original available. (1  item)
 
2009-P-041 Arthur H. Benson
  1919, 1953
  Images of Non-Partisan League picnic at farm home of John Simonson between Roseglen and Robb ND in McLean County and aerial of John Simonson farm. (2 items)
 
2009-P-042 Andrew H. Burke
  1910 
  Black and white toned image of Andrew H. Burke standing next  to bushes; inscribed "To the Carter-- "the salt of the earth"  very sincerely--Andrew H. Burke." (1 item)
 
2009-P-043 Braddock, ND
  ca. 1900-1910
  Black and white real postcards of Braddock, ND. (4 items)
2009-P-044 New Salem, ND
    1920
    Photographic copies of panorama photos of New Salem ND in 1920 taken by a photographer from Havre, MT. (2 items)  
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