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Title: Elsie Bingenheimer
Dates: 1877-1939
Collection Number: 00119
Quantity: 45 items and a scrapbook
Abstract: Stereographs of Dakota Territory by L. A. Huffman and F. Jay Haynes and a scrapbook from Mayville State Teacher’s College 1939.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired this collection from Elsie Bingenheimer in March 1985.
Property rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
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Biographical Sketch
From the Bismarck Tribune,November 2, 1994
Elsie Thal Bingenheimer, 74, died Oct. 30, 1994, in the Mandan Hospital. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at United Church of Christ, Bismarck, with the Revs. Stevens Hilyard, Jack Seville, and Austin Engel officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
Elsie Marion Thal was born Dec. 6, 1919, in Lakota, the daughter of Gustav and Alice (Crandall) Thal. She attended schools in Lakota and Mayville, and graduated as valedictorian from Mayville High School in 1937. She graduated from Mayville Teachers College in 1941. In spite of losing her hearing at age 13, Elsie was very active in school, participating in numerous clubs, debate, sports, drama and was the homecoming queen. Following college, she taught school at Hetland, S.D., and New Rockford. Elsie married Willard G. “Bing” Bingenheimer, June 19, 1949, at Redfield, S.D. They moved to Wyoming and then to Bismarck in 1953. Elsie worked as secretary for the United Church of Christ, North Dakota Indian Missions and North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission from 1965-1981. For her personal efforts, she was honored at powwows and Standing Rock and Fort Berthold reservations. Through the years Elsie was involved in numerous clubs and organizations. The included Eastern Star, Beta Sigma Phi, League of Women Voters, Girls Scouts and volunteering at the Heritage Center and governor’s mansion. She served on the Board of Directors of Mayville Alumni Foundation and received its distinguished service award in 1991. Her involvement was so great in the local and state church, that she received recognition from the national church in 1992. She also received the UCC North Dakota Conference Medallion Award for outstanding lay people and clergy.
She is survived by three daughters and two sons-in-law, Laurie and Mark Ponwith, Arizona, Jean Bingenheimer, Minneapolis, and Sara and John Felix, Wyoming; and two sons and one daughter-in-law, Philip and Laurie, Texas, and Gordon, Seattle; one sister and brother-in-law, Eleanor and Gilbert Daigneault, Florida; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Crandall and Mary, Minneapolis, and Clarke and Betty, Denver; and six grandchildren, Sara, Elizabeth, Bryan and Joshua Bingenheimer, and Kelsey and Katie Felix.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Bing, who died in 1982.
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00119-00001 Monster buffalo bull, Northern Range (Mont.) 01/1882
00119-00002 Our first elk, Miles City (Mont.) circa 1882
00119-00003 His first grizzly, Miles City (Mont.) circa 1882
00119-00004 Hump and Head warriors, Miles City (Mont.) circa 1882
00119-00005 Rain-in-the-Face's camp, Miles City (Mont.) circa 1882
00119-00006 Rain-in-the-Face at home, Miles City (Mont.) circa 1882
00119-00007 Scaffold burial 01/1882
00119-00008 Custer Battlefield monument, Crow Agency (Mont.) circa 1882
00119-00009 Custer Battlefield, Crow Agency (Mont.) circa 1882
00119-00010 Custer Battlefield, Crow Agency (Mont.) circa 1882
00119-00011 Ice blocks in front of City Bakery, Mandan (D.T.) 1880-1889
00119-00012 Ice blocks in front of Merchants Hotel, Mandan (D.T.) 1880-1889
00119-00013 Ice blocks in front of Oysters Bay, Mandan (D.T.) 1880-1889
00119-00014 Looking east on Main Street, Mandan (D.T.) 1880-1889
00119-00015 Looking east on Main Street, Mandan (D.T.) F Jay Haynes stereo 1880-1889
00119-00016 Ice breakup, Mandan (D.T.) 1880-1889
00119-00017 Pyramid Park Hotel and Depot, Badlands City, Little Missouri (D.T.) 1880-1883
00119-00018 Buffalo Valley, Little Missouri (D.T.) 1880-1883
00119-00019 Antelope Butte, Little Missouri River (D.T.) 1880-1889
00119-00020 Indian group 1880-1889
00119-00021 Noted Sioux Indian Chiefs 1880-1889
00119-00022 Northern Pacific Railroad engine stuck in snow 1880-1889
00119-00023 Northern Pacific Railroad engines covered with snow 1880-1889
00119-00024 Northern Pacific Railroad bridge 1880-1889
00119-00025 Ranch Dauhhan Rapids 1880-1889
00119-00026 Sitting Bull 1881
00119-00027 Gatling gun battery Fort Abraham Lincoln (D.T.) 1877
00119-00028 Students in front of school, Mayville (N.D.) 1920
00119-00029 George Bingenheimer and his boarding house, The Arlington, Mandan (N.D.) 1880
00119-00030 High Eagle ca. 1880
00119-00031 Grey Bear (Crow) ca. 1885
00119-00032 George Bingenheimer and man holding big wheel bicycles Circa 1885
00119-00033 Rain-in-the-Face 1888
00119-00034 Sitting Bull's camp, Fort Buford (D.T.) XX
00119-00035 Circling Bear XX
00119-00036 Sitting Bull XX
00119-00037 Rain-in-the-Face on a spotted pony ca. 1880
00119-00038 Sitting Bull addresses Council at Standing Rock Agency 1886
00119-00039 Council at Standing Rock Agency 1886
00119-00040 Council at Standing Rock Agency 1886
00119-00041 Chief Long Dog circa 1880
00119-00042 Sitting Bull's log cabin with sod roof and tipi circa 1890
00119-00043 Sitting Bull's family outside house on Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) circa 1891
00119-00044 Fort Yates Indian Police XX
00119-00045 Sitting Bull's log cabin with sod roof and tepee circa 1890
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