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2013-P-001 Mrs. Mina Chalfin
1900-1920
Post cards from various locations. (304 items)
2013-P-002 George Miller Family - Museum of Northern Idaho
  1880s-1890s, 1915
  Family portrait at Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. George Miller, Devils Lake in 1915 and a family portrait probably related to the George Miller Family, ca. 1880s-1890s. (2 items)
2013-P-003 Dan Rice
1880-1950
Black and white images of people and places throughout North Dakota and elsewhere. (214 items)
2013-P-004 Dan Engle
  1971-1973
  Images taken by State Historical Society staff  member, Dan Engle, of buildings in Minot, Coleharbor, Wilton, Washburn,  Bismarck, Fort Totten, and Fort Yates. (111 items)
2013-P-005 Wells County Historical Society
  1920-1940
    Black and white photo post cards of Native Americans, and other people and places in North Dakota. (57 items)
2013-P-006 Judy Caspari
  1898-1900
  Black and white panorama photographs of threshing scenes in Niagara (ND), one including the crew gathered at the cook wagon for dinner. (3 items)
2013-P-007 Nancy J. Scott
  1898-1950
    Black and white photographs of the Frederick Francis Gerard family. (15 items)
2013-P-008 Picture North Dakota Churches
  1964-2002
  Images of churches across North Dakota. (153 items)
2013-P-009 Jack Carignan Post Card Collection
  1898-1947
  Post cards,  primarily of scenes in Fort Yates and Bismarck (ND) taken by Frank Bennett  Fiske. Several images are of Montana and South Dakota. Collection documents  daily life at Fort Yates, as well as landmarks, sports teams, buildings,  rodeos, agriculture and people. Several post cards have notes or correspondence  by John M. (Jack) Carignan. (49 items)
2013-P-010 Oak Grove Seminary, Fargo (ND)
ca. 1913
Post card photo of Oak Grove Seminary, Fargo. (1 item)
2013-P-012 Mrs. E. P. Capen
  n.d.
F. J. Haynes stereographs of the Badlands: 512. A Hill of Petrified Wood, 517. The Mammoth Pertified Stump, 554. Curlew Canyon & Crossing, 557. Buffalo Valley-Little Mo., 606. Giants Window, 622. Wall of White Stone, and 630. Pulpit Rock. (7 items)
2013-P-013 Roy B. Johnson
  n.d.
F. J. Haynes stereograph of three Native American women seated outside a log building, probably at Fort Berthold. (1 item)
2013-P-014 Ada M. Halloran
circa 1880-1921
Images of early Bismarck and Mandan. (8 items)
2013-P-015 South Dakota State Historical Society
  circa 1880-1946
    F. J. Haynes stereographs of the Badlands, postcards of Bismarck, Dickinson, Lisbon, and Mandan, and illustrations of Canadian geese. (31 items)
2013-P-016 Delores Larson Grade School  photographs, Wells County (ND)
   1938 or 1939
    Black and  white photographs of first and second grade classes that include Delores  Larson. Probably in Wells County (ND), printed by Brown Photo Service in Minneapolis  (MN).  (4 items)
2013-P-017 Dennis Neumann
1960-1970
35mm slides taken by KFYR reporter Dennis Neumann of North Dakota legislators, NDSU staff and faculty, UND staff and faculty, and newsmakers. (991 items)
2013-P-018 Linton (ND) High School Senior Photographs
  1928-1965
    Composite  photographs of Linton High School graduates, 1928-1965, and a list of graduates  from the 1929 class. (37 items)
 2013-P-019 Inspection Trip Prior to First  Garrison Condemnation Trial
  Apr. 12, 1947
  Black and white photograph of the  inspection trip prior to the First Garrison Condemnation Trial,  with Roy Dory, Col. W. W. Wanamaker, W. L. Berge, Henry Sheldon, Ralph J.  Luttrell, D. N. Lindeman, P. W. Lanier, James L. McBride, Harry Lashkowitz,  Harlan Josephson and John Ott pictured.  Lindeman,  an attorney from Duluth MN was employed by the U.  S. Army Corps of Engineers as a specialist in acquiring  property for various Corps of Engineers projects. His job was to go to Federal  Court to acquire title to property when the owners were either unwilling or  would not accept the government's offer to buy the property. (1 item)
2013-P-020 Dale  Niewoehner 
  Black and white photographs and  one etching plate of O. T. Tofsrud, his family, stores and bank in Rugby (ND)  and B. L. Shuman Family photographs.
2013-P-021 Bird’s  Eye View, Warwick (ND) Post Card 
  ca. 1910 (1 item).
2013-P-022 Scott  Nelson Family 
  Glass plate negatives taken by Scott's grandfather on his  farm north of the Cannonball River, ca. 1906. Images include town scenes,  agricultural work, family and friends (51 items). 
2013-P-023 Wallace Lodine 
  ca. 1900-1920
    Black and white photographs,  ca.   1900-1920, of the Anderson or the George Lincoln farm in the   Grandin/Gardner  area north of Fargo. (5 items)
2013-P-024 North  Dakota Historical Site Photographs
  Two binders of slides taken by unknown person  divided into historical topics with information sheets. 
2013-P-025 Roy Hardy and His Recording  Orchestra
   1936
   Black and white postcard of Roy Hardy and his  Recording Orchestra, presented by Randall's Coliseum. The postcard is stamped  May 5, 1936 and is addressed to "Dance Manager, Cloquet, MN." The  postcard message says "for open dates write Roy Hardy, Fairmount, No.  Dak." Roy Edward Hardy was born January 23, 1902 to James and Celia  (Tuman) Hardy in South Dakota. By 1920 he has moved to Fairmount, Richland  County, ND. They lived in Fairmount until at least 1935. By 1940, he and his  wife Bess were living in Albuquerque, NM, where he was teaching music. He died  in Albuquerque in September 1985. 
    (1 item)
2013-P-026 Condy Family
ca. 1880s-1900s
Portraits of members of the Condy and Graham families in Cummings, Traill  County, ND. (29 digital images)
2013-P-027 North Dakota Post Cards-Theodore  Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation
    ca. 1909
 
    Black and white and  color postcards of Fargo (ND) and Jamestown (ND). Views of Broadway Boulevard  (Fargo), Lincoln School (Fargo), Island Park (Fargo), Overland Limited at  Northern Pacific Depot (Fargo), Klaus Park (Jamestown), and "A Western  Mining Camp-the Home of A Millionaire To Be."  (6 items)
2013-P-028 John Long Garrison Dam Construction
  1947-1948
     Black and white prints Garrison Dam construction along with photo captions and reminiscences of Richard  Long whose father, John Long, worked with the company that produced one of the first  self propelled motor scrapers in the world and  was used on the  Garrison Dam Project. (4 items) FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY.
2013-P-029 Company E, 1st North Dakota  Infantry, Williston ND Panorama
     ca. 1916-1919
     Black and white panorama of  Company E, 1st North Dakota Infantry, Williston, ND.   (1 item)
2013-P-030 Vernon Lindgren
  ca. 1941-1945 
    Photographs and post  cards that document Vernon Lindgren’s World War II service in Italy and North  Africa. (215 items)
2013-P-031 Clyde  Allen Fields Yucca (ND) Rodeo Collection 
  Copies of photographs of the rodeo at  Yucca (ND) 1927 Clyde Allen Fields  (1884-1952) moved to ND from IA when  he was 16 years old and worked as a cow hand for the rancher Charlie Whitmer  and also at the Heart Ranch near Center (ND). Charlie Whitmer was responsible  for the Yucca rodeo.  (12 items).
2013-P-032 Robert  Boyd
    Photographs taken by Robert Boyd during his service in Europe and  North Africa in World War II, as well as photographs confiscated by Boyd which  belonged to German citizens, documenting life in Germany during wartime. (281 items)
2013-P-033 Frank  Huttner
 
    Photograph  of  the Gille-Miller Coal Mine near Columbus (ND), February 15, 1900 and postcard   of two men tarring the roof of the Siebert Hotel in Flaxton, ca. 1909 (photo  by Philip R. Gooud) (2 items).
2013-P-034 Hope  Conservative Congregational Church interior (Elgin, ND)
    Colored post card of  the interior of the Hope Conservative Congregational Church (Elgin, ND).  Correspondence on the back of the post card dates from December 7, 1987 (1  item).
2013-P-035 North  Dakota Post Offices 
    Colored post cards of post  offices in Grand Forks (1938), Fargo (1946), and Minot (ca. 1930s-1940s) and  news clippings pasted to a post card about the post office at Grassy  Butte  (ND) (after 1926). (3 items). 
2013-P-036  Garrison Dam Post Cards
    Black and white post cards of  construction scenes and equipment used during the construction of the Garrison  Dam (27 items).
2013-P-037 McLean County Journal
  ca. 1940s-1980s
  Photographs in the collection document life in the Turtle Lake, McLean 
County (ND) region, and some were used in issues of  the McLean County Journal. Subjects in the collection include:  businesses, people, agriculture, rodeos, homes and buildings, community events,  sports, fires and education. (4,259 items)
2013-P-038 Ed and Kathryn Elder  
    ca. 1900-1950
Digital scans of sports teams and family photographs of Tom Hallendorf's  maternal grandparents Ed and Kathryn (Hamilton) Elder, who were born and raised  in Jamestown (ND). Ed played minor-league baseball in Bismarck in the early  1900s. (13 digital items)
2013-P-039 Bernard Lein
    ca.  1911-1912
    Digital scans of the town of  Powers Lake (ND) (1912), the railroad coming to Powers Lake (1911), the Powers  Equity Band (Lundsvalley, ND), and Elmer Lein, son of Bernard.  Bernard  Lein homesteaded land bordering Powers Lake in 1908 and was a taxidermist (5  digital items).
2013-P-040 Dahlen (Dale) Jensen
    ca. 1930s-2012
    Digital scans of the Jensen  homestead near Norma (ND), Dale and Aldon Jensen with the motorcycles they rode  from Kenmare (ND) to Everett (WA) in the 1930s, construction at Wm. J. Neil  plant near Velva (ND), and Jensen's funeral program. Jensen was an electrician  who served in WWII. (8 digital items)
2013-P-041 Berry Family (Taylor,  ND) 
    ca. 1890s-1930s 
    Digital scans of Abram and Annie  Berry, their daughter Dorothy, Dorothy's husband Giulio de St Clement, and the  Berry sheep ranch in Taylor (ND) Also included is a transcribed news article  about Dorothy's childhood, and her biography. Dorothy (Berry) de St. Clement  was a writer and author of the book White Gumbo (7digital items).
2013-P-042 Tullberg Family
  ca. 1897-1957
    Digital portraits  of members of the Tullberg (and Klein) family, photographs of Carl J. Tullberg  in uniform while serving with the US Army in France, Carl Tullberg in the Mott  Pioneers’ Day parade, Einar Tullberg’s construction company, Carl Tullberg’s  grocery store (Bismarck, ND), and a photograph of Shirley Ann Tullberg in the  North Dakota Jubilee celebration, 1939. (22 digital images)
2013-P-043 Whitestone  Hill  Panorama
ca. 1914
Panorama of a large group at   Whitestone Hill  (1 item).
    2013-P-044 Zeeb  Family Portraits
    1913
    Black and white, hand-tinted portraits of Eva Zeeb, George and Christina Zeeb, and an  unidentified woman. The portraits were brought to the United States by George  Zeeb Sr. from Russia in 1913.  (3  items).
2013-P-045 Francis Kukowski 
    1989-1993 
     Color  photographs of North Dakota towns taken by Kukowski between 1989-1993. Images  include businesses, grain elevators, courthouses, post offices, views of main  streets, schools, bridges, and train depots. (1,770 items)  
2013-P-046  Rose Marie Lindgren 
    ca. 1930s-1940s
      Black and white photos of  Rose Marie Lindgren (Kulm, ND) at the Good Samaritan School for Crippled  Children (Fargo, ND), which later moved to Jamestown and became the Anne  Carlsen School. (217 items)
2013-P-047 Mark Lindgren
  before 1921
    Color postcards  of the Grand Pacific Hotel (Bismarck, ND), McKenzie Hotel (Bismarck, ND), and  Burleigh County Courthouse (Bismarck, ND). The backs of the postcards have  correspondence to various Lindgren family members (Kulm, ND). (3 items)
2013-P-048 Jeff Malm
  ca. 1918-1940s 
     Black and white photograph of  Elmo Malm in World War II, a color post card of the Bismarck (ND) (St. Alexius)  Hospital, and two black and white post cards of St. Alexius Hospital and bombed  buildings in Commercy, France (1918). (4 items)
2013-P-049  Gwendolyn L. (White) Leno 
1894-1947
Black and white photograph of Quartermasters House at Fort  Abraham Lincoln, black and white photograph of Goodings Store at Fort Abraham  Lincoln,  black and white photograph of  the remains of Fort Abraham Lincoln, and a black and white wedding photograph  for Gwendolyn Loraine Smith and Robert Philip White (9/18/1947) photographed by  Lee Mohr. The photographs of Fort Abraham Lincoln were taken by Miss Marian  Veeder. (4 items)
2013-P-050 Liberty Memorial  Bridge Postcard
post 1922
Black and white postcard of the  Liberty Memorial Bridge looking west across the Missouri River from Bismarck to  Mandan (ND). 
(1 item)
2013-P-051 David Mills
    ca. 1950s 
    Black and white photographs of David Mills while serving in  Korea. Mills enlisted in the Army in 1949  in Bismarck (ND). He entered into the Oklahoma Thunderbird Division AAA during  the Korean War and served as a Master Sergeant. 
    (2 items).
2013-P-052 Anna (Splittgerber) Thompson
    ca. 1910s-1937
    Black and white photographs and postcards that belonged to  Anna C. Splittgerber (Thompson), including railroad construction and  activity, and main streets in Fairmount, Makoti, and Lidgerwood (ND). 
    (12 items)
2013-P-053 Frank and Ester Wenstrom
    ca. 1967
    Color photograph of Frank and Ester Wenstrom in the North  Dakota Senate Chamber. From the Wenstrom estate. 
    (1 item)
2013-P-054 Paul Eidbo
    1937-1941. 
    Black and white photographs of  students and children on confirmation day from Bowden (Wells County, ND),  1937-1941. 
    (3 items)
2013-P-055 Dr. Louis F. Pine
  ca. 1940s 
Photographs  taken by Dr. Louis F. Pine while serving in World War II in Korea and the  Philippines. (142 items)
2013-P-057  Chief  White Eagle (Fire Tail) 
    n.d.
 
    Black and white portrait of Chief White Eagle  (Fire Tail), who was a scout for Custer. White Eagle was the donor's  great-great-grandfather (grandfather of Laura White Eagle, Condon's  grandmother) (1 item).
2013-P-058 New Rockford (ND) Street Scene 
    1908
    Black and white photograph of street scene in New Rockford taken January 20, 1908 and processed by the Belgum Studio, New Rockford. (1 item)
2013-P-059 Marcia Greengard
ca.  1910s-1950s
Photograph  album of members of the Vance family, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. O. Anderson, Iverson  children, Caroline Johnson, Rose Greengard, and unidentified individuals in the  Fargo (ND) and Williston (ND) areas. (61 items) 
2013-P-060 Grassy Butte (ND) and  Fayette (ND) Post Offices
1956-1966
Color slides and a print of the post office  in Grassy Butte (ND) (1966) and 3 color slides of the Fayette (ND) post office,  which closed July 3, 1956. Several slides contain information about post  masters and local residences (3 items). 
2013-P-061 William A. Marek
    1941
    Black and white aerial photo of Camp Joseph  T. Robinson (AR), taken by Spencer & Wyckoff, Detroit (MI), 1941. Marek's  WWII artifacts are among the collections of the Museum Division of the SHSND (1  item). 
2013-P-062 Plummer Family
    ca. 1885-1910
    Funeral cabinet card of Anna Plummer and hand  colored portraits of Hannah Jane (Shunk?), Dora, Elizabeth (Beranek), and Mary  Ann Plummer (who was purportedly the first white child born in Bismarck).  Hannah was born in about 1853 in Indiana and married Joseph W. Plummer (who was  born in about 1838 in Ohio). They had the following children: Mary, Adaline, J.  W., Elizabeth, and Dora. By 1880, the family was living in Deadwood, DT (5 items).
2013-P-063 4-H Club Trip Winners  in Denver (CO)
    1935
    Black and white photograph of the parade of  4-H Club Trip Winners at the International Live Stock Exposition Area, Denver  (CO) (1 item).
2013-P-064 Camp Ritchie, Valley City (ND)
    ca. 1940s
    Oversized hand colored aerial photograph of  Camp Ritchie, Valley City (ND) (1 item).
2013-P-065 Wives and Daughters of  Members of the Pioneer Association of North Half of LaMoure County (ND)  composite
    1912
    Composite of 32 portraits (with  identification) of wives and daughters of Members of the Pioneer Association of  North Half of LaMoure County (ND), taken June 27, 1912 (1 item).
2013-P-066 Math Dahl portrait
    ca. 1950s-1960s
    Black and white portrait of Math Dahl (Rudrud  Studio, Bismarck, ND) (1 item).
2013-P-067 ND State Federation  of Labor Convention, Bismarck (ND)
    1923
    Black and white portrait of members of the ND  State Federation of Labor at the 11th annual convention in Bismarck (ND), May  7-9, 1923 (1 item).
2013-P-068 Mary Comes Last and  son, Cannonball (ND)
    1932
    Black and white portrait of Mary Comes Last,  daughter of Andrew Ireland holding her son. Taken by Eugene Burdick (1 item).
2013-P-069 Fort Sully on the  Hill
    1918
    Black and white image of Fort Sully, titled  "Fort Sully on the Hill, 1918. Abandoned 1893. Fiske Foto" (1 item). 
2013-P-070 View of Devils Lake  (ND) 
    ca. 1898
    Black and white image of businesses and other  buildings in Devils Lake (ND). A steamboat is docked at the shore. The  photographer is Ingebright Glerum (1 item).
2013-P-071 Threshing near Page  (ND)
    ca. 1900
    Black and white photograph of a threshing crew  near Page (ND) (1 item).
2013-P-072 Guss Sandell on  horseback in front of Gwinner Packing Co.
    ca. 1920
    Black and white photograph of Guss Sandell on  horseback in front of the Gwinner (ND) Packing Co., which was established in  1909 to pack pork and beef products (1 item). 
2013-P-073 Hand Colored Risem  Photograph of the ND Capitol
    ca. 1933
    Black and white Risem photograph of the ND  Capitol, capitol grounds, and Liberty Memorial building hand colored (1 item).
2013-P-074 Hand Colored Portrait  of Unidentified Boy, ca. 1890
    ca. 1890
    Black and white portrait of an unidentified  boy that is hand tinted (1 item).
2013-P-075 Hunters with Game  Birds from the Day's Hunt, Dawson (ND)
    1890
    Black and white photograph of hunters William  A. Bond, A. R. Barnes, J. L. Paddock, R. A. Paddock, William Bond Sr., Stanley  Rhodes and William Clark with birds from the day's hunt in Dawson (ND) (1  item). 
2013-P-076 Ree Chiefs Black Horse and Son of the Star
    n.d.
    Hand colored Barry photograph of Ree Chiefs  Black Horse and Son of the Star (1 item).
2013-P-077 Frank E. Cave
    ca. 1952-1960s
    35mm  color slides with images of the Cave family and their Bismarck (ND) home, the  North Dakota Capitol Grounds, aerial views of North Dakota, images of hunting  and a parade on the capitol grounds. Cave was the long-time bridge engineer for  the North Dakota Highway Department. (59 items)
2013-P-078 Abraham and Anna  Rockstad 50th Wedding Anniversary 
    1940
    Black and white photographs of Anna and  Abraham Rockstad of Walcott (ND) on their 50th wedding anniversary, July 3rd, 1940.  A newspaper clipping about the Rockstads' anniversary is located in the case  file (2 items). 
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