Box 73
1 3 photographic prints matted on boards of Williston from the early 1900’s
2 7 prints – including a postcard from 4/26/1916, Hamlet boys basketball team, Shemorry family portraits, early pictures, Grandpa Haus Peter Hendrickson homestead – he is standing on the right photo about 1903, Pionner oil and gas #1 2 miles SE of Williston about 1916, stony creek school about 1912 Merle Montgomery was teacher the niece of Bill Owens, and paper copies of early pix
3 15 prints – Aerial views in Williston and group portrait of soldiers in a town
4 3 prints – Older woman telephone operator at work and men and women gathered around a table having a meeting
5 12 large prints – farm scene, fish story, Williams Electric co-op in winter, National hard sprint wheat queen, and photomontages of national wheat queen and tractors and harvesters
6 33 prints – Williston area, businesses, people, buildings etc.
7 65 prints and 3 screened negatives all used in Bill Shemorry’s book Photo 100: Nostalgic highlights of a Century, Williston, A Pictorial Journey Into the Past… (Print 73-7-53 similar to negative 32B-150-2)
8 15 prints of Farmers Press Staff from about 1942 including Bill Shemorry, Mary Lou, Steve, Claude, Walt Dupane, Mac, Harry, Ole Vatne, Julia, Kay, Genevieve, Val, Orville, Johnny, and Cecil.
Box 73 Matches
print 73-2-2 matches print 1-16-18
print 73-7-23 matches screened negative 73-7-24 and print 19-24-2
Print 73-7-1 matches negative 77-12-29
print 73-7-2 crop of print 12-26-8
print 73-7-33 matches print 18-15-2
print 73-7-3 crop of print 12-26-11
print 73-7-35 matches negative 13-36-2
print 73-7-4 crop of postcard 20-47-6
print 73-7-38 matches 18-15-14
print 73-7-8 crop of postcard 12-14-5
print 73-7-44 matches print 68-9-2
print 73-7-9 crop of print 20-39-1
print 73-7-48 matches print 20-39-5
print 73-7-13 crop of glass plate negative 81A-3
print 73-7-49 matches print 15-36-41
screened print 73-7-15 matches print 16-49-7
print 73-7-51 matches print 20-39-6
print 73-7-27 matches negative 25C-119-9
print 73-7-52 matches print 10-30-2
print 73-7-28 similar to print 16-54-2
print 73-7-56 matches print 11-17-1 and negative 11-9-1
print 73-7-30 crop of print 1-14-14
print 73-7-64 crop of print 12-57-5
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