Photographs - Collections - 0001-00050 - #00032-PI-09

Title: Bertha and Lillian Tofsrud Oral History Photo Collection

Dates: 1884-1935

Collection Number: 00032-PI-09

Quantity: 31 items

Abstract: Photographs copied from personal collection of Bertha and Lillian Tofsrud during their Oral History Interview in Rugby (ND), Pierce County. The interview can be found on Oral History tape 730B.

Provenance: The North Dakota Oral History Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.

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Citation: Researchers are requested to cite the collection title, collection number, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota in all footnote and bibliographic references.

PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY

00032-PI-09-01                  John Steen, legislator, Rugby (ND)
00032-PI-09-02                  O. T. Tofsrud, homesteader at Barton (ND) 1895
00032-PI-09-03                  An early family, Willow City (ND)
00032-PI-09-04                  Barbro Peterson Tofsrud, wife of Torgus Tofsrud who homesteaded at Churchs Ferry in 1883. Image ca. 1890
00032-PI-09-05                  Mr. and Mrs. Tongus Tofsrud 1895
00032-PI-09-06                  Running Rabbit
00032-PI-09-07                  Indian group
00032-PI-09-08                  Railroad bridge
00032-PI-09-09                  Early threshing scene, Willow City (ND) ca. 1900
00032-PI-09-10                  O. T. Tofsrud store interior, Rugby (ND) ca. 1896
00032-PI-09-11                  Pam Greden, Peter Beck, John Olaveson, Peter Olson, W. A. Hamilon, and O. T. Tofsrud 1935
00032-PI-09-12                  Jail construction, Rugby (ND)
00032-PI-09-13                  O. T. Tofsrud home, Rugby (ND) ca. 1916
00032-PI-09-14                  Security Bank of Rugby (ND) interior, organized in 1909 by O. T. Tofsrud ca. 1910
00032-PI-09-15                  Security Bank of Rugby (ND) exterior, organized in 1909 by O. T. Tofsrud ca. 1910
00032-PI-09-16                  O. T. Tofsrud store exterior, Rugby (ND) ca. 1900
00032-PI-09-17                  Well digging in Pierce County near Rugby (ND) early 1900s
00032-PI-09-18                  O. T. Tofsrud store exterior, Rugby (ND) 1895
00032-PI-09-19                  F. T. Gronvold and John Steen, Rugby (ND) ca. 1918
00032-PI-09-20                  An early store in Rugby (ND)
00032-PI-09-21                  Group with bicycles, Rugby (ND) ca. 1905: Christ Waldo, Ed Homre, Emma, Manda, and Mary Homre, and John Saterlie
00032-PI-09-22                  Torgus Tofsrud homestead near Churchs Ferry (DT) ca. 1884
00032-PI-09-23                  Great Northern rail yard, Rugby (ND) 1904
00032-PI-09-24                  Threshing rig in Rugby (ND) area ca. 1900
00032-PI-09-25                  O. T. Tofsrud’s second mercantile store in Rugby (ND) 1925
00032-PI-09-26                  Group picture in O. T. Tofsrud’s building which burned January 19, 1902: Fred Smith, Even Gunderson, Fred H. McBride, M. H. Nash, Frank Sykes, Dr. T. M. McBride, Pete and Theodore Scotland, Henry Ellingson, Will Emslie, Charlie and Ed Erickson, Herb C. Herd, Dr. William Moeller, Tom Oksendahl, Hans Bjornstad, O. T. Tofsrud, Walters, I. B. Reynolds, A. P. Ryding
00032-PI-09-27                  An early ND family probably from Portland (ND)
00032-PI-09-28                  Street scene, Rugby (ND) 1895
00032-PI-09-29                Eighth Grade Graduating Class 1919: Glen Spillum, I. T. Simley, Ray Stern, James Wiger, Alice Bergman, Peter Westegard, Sadie Jennings, Melford Knutson, Margaret Fraine, Ray Tafte, Elbert Thompson, Clara Tibbs, Lillian Tofsrud, Nettie Hunter, Georgia Guss, George    Johnson, William Conlon, Helen Hector, Mildred Call, Earl Campion, Lester Watson, Gladys Blessum, Lucy Curtis, Anna Berdahl, Carl Olaveson, Florence Onstad, Lula Moe, Myrtle Harnit
00032-PI-09-30                  Pierce County Courthouse, Rugby (ND) 1895
00032-PI-09-31                  Main Street, Rugby (ND) 1918

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