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00101 Dana Wright
1904-1962
Images of historic sites in North Dakota, an event at the St. John Chapter of the Isaak Walton League, and dedication of I-29. (161 items)
00102 Bismarck Tribune
1910-1980
Images used in the Bismarck Tribune. Some are copies of wire press photos and may not be duplicated. (47 items)
00104 Christian Westergaard
1874-1925
Mr. and Mrs. Christian Westergaard wedding portrait and farm scenes. (12 items)
00105 Orin Grant Libby
ca. 1870-1950
Consists of images of the Badlands, Fort Lincoln archaeological camp and excavation, Mandan buildings and views, Fort Union festivities of 1926, and the last ox cart parade with Red River carts in Grand Forks. Native American photographs include Hidatsa boys, several views of Short Bull, Good Bird, Indian log house with bower, Mandan shrine, interior and exterior of earth lodges, medicine lodge, Arikara fort camp, various archaeological sites, Indian mounds, buffalo bone and horn implements, and mortar and pestles. There are also photographs and maps by Ernst Reinhold Steinbrueck, including those of many archaeological sites and early day Mandan. (624 items)
00106 Superintendent’s Correspondence Photographs
ca. 1891-1959
Includes photos taken by Henry B. Syverud of Dagmar, MT. Eugene A. Burdick took many Native American portraits and some early Burdick family scenes. Other topics include the Pioneer Family Sculpture, North Dakota historic sites, and Bismarck Pioneer Day parade. Portraits include Bob-Tailed Bull, Shoots Holy, Dan Iron Road, Andrew Iron Road, No Two Horns, Mrs. Iron Cane, Mrs. Bullhead, Mrs. Standing Wind, Mrs. Eagle Staff, Old Bull, Bear Heart, Wicibedeza, and Mr. and Mrs. White Lightning. Other portraits include Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fiske, Francis Zahn, Usher Burdick, Quentin Burdick, Eugene Burdick, and Melvin Gilmore. (226 photographs)
00110 Charles Lemon Hall
1896-1931
Images of the Fort Berthold Mission and Charles L. Hall and family. (95 items)
00112 Wallin Family
1880-1929
Consists of family photos and images of Sitting Bull, Charles F. Amidon, and Judge C. H. Corliss. (16 items)
00113 Frank White
1900-1937
Contains family photos, images of White’s term as Governor with past governors, Valley City, Grand Forks, Bismarck, and Washington, D.C. (175 items)
00114 Van Horn-Ritterbush
1925-1940
Photographs of day by day construction of several Van Horn Ritterbush projects in Bismarck, Valley City, Jamestown, Manvel, New England, Hebron, Kulm, and Dickinson (ND).
00116 Herman F. Strehlow
1892-1947
Images of the Casselton Fire Department and of the North Dakota Firemen’s Association officers and conventions. (19 items)
00117 Nielson Family
1914-1950
Images of the Nielson family of Valley City (ND) and of World War I and its aftermath. (378 items)
00119 Elsie Bingenheimer
1877-1939
Stereographs of Dakota Territory by L. A. Huffman and F. Jay Haynes and a scrapbook from Mayville State Teacher’s College 1939. (44 items and a scrapbook)
00120 Richard Virgil Grace
ca. 1910-1945
This collection consists primarily of photographs from Grace's professional life. Images include scenes from various movies and his aircrafts crashes, Grace's promotional car crash, and images of Grace acting in films. The collection also includes photographs from Grace's time in Europe serving in WWI, as well as photos with friends and family at home and abroad. (300 items)
00121 Hatton-Eielson Museum
ca. 1905-1928
Images of Hatton, farming, carriages, wagons, and automobiles, and Carl Ben Eielson in a parade.(34 items)
00122 Butch Thunderhawk
1930-1939
Copies of portraits and group photographs of Native Americans in Cannon Ball, Devils Lake, and Mandan (ND) and Rapid City (SD). Many of the images are by Frank Fiske and Rolland R. Lutz. (48 items)
00123 David F. Barry
ca. 1880-1890
Portraits by David F. Barry, primarily of Indians and U.S. military. (31 items)
00124 Ben Belk
1879-1939
Images of Bismarck, Washburn, Devils Lake, Wilton, Fort Totten, Garrison, and Jamestown, and the Bismarck baseball team, steamboats, and train bridges. (163 items)
00125 Miss Annetta Erickson
1908-1922
Postcards, primarily from Bismarck and Fargo (ND). (20 items)
00126 Mary McKean (Mrs. Ernest L. (Shaw)
1908-1940
Images of Wahpeton and Sheldon (N.D.) and of Co. I, 1st Infantry NDNG at Camp McCoy, Sparta (Wisc.). (6 items)
00128 Clarke Historical Library
1885-1908
Images of buildings, bridges, and rivers in Jamestown, Medina, Milton, and Valley City (ND). (10 items)
00129 Charles Reichensperger
ca. 1890-1920
Images of eastern Montana and the area around Medora, N.D, including the Eaton Brothers Custer Trail Ranch. (16 items)
00132 Annetta Erickson Postcards
1918
Consists of images of Fargo, Devils Lake, Valley City, Bismarck, and Sioux Indians of North Dakota. Photographs of Sioux Indians were most likely taken by B.L.B. of Mott, ND in 1918. (25 items)
00133 Norman Erickson
1908-1928
Images of Alexander, Bismarck, Davenport, Kensal, Mandan, and Marion N.D. (24 Items)
00134 Lillian Elizabeth (Connolly) Torgerson
1890-1940
Images of the original North Dakota State Capitol, the current North Dakota State Capitol, construction of the Liberty Memorial Bridge and the installation of Bishop Ryan in the Bismarck Diocese of the Catholic Church. (28 items)
00135 Albert E. Dease
ca. 1870-1968
Images of Fargo, Leroy, Fort Totten, Grafton, Grand Forks, Neche, Pembina, and Williston. (70 items)
00137 Ray H. Mattison
circa 1935-1968
Images of Fort Totten, Fort Abercrombie, a dance house on the Fort Berthold Reservation, Historical Society staff, Medora, Danish Mill near Kenmare, and ranches in western N.D. and eastern Montana. (91 items)
00138 KFYR and P. J. Meyer
1932
Images of the groundbreaking for the new State Capitol building and ceremonies for laying of the cornerstone for the building. (27 items)
00139 Lentz Family
1900-1930
Images of the brickyard, buildings, and ranching in the Hebron (ND) area. (51 items)
00141 Andreas Risem
1929-1942
Includes images of the Capitol cornerstone laying in 1932, a visit by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, high school sports teams, State Highway Patrol, and North Dakota artwork sent to an exhibit in New York City. (76 prints, 71 negatives)
00142 A. A. A. Schmirler
1908-1958
Images of Sibley Trail monument, trench where skeleton was discovered during road construction, Grandin Farm, and site of Ripon (N.D.). (10 items)
00143 Cincinnati Historical Society
1911
Images of various localities around North Dakota in 1911. (30 items)
00148 John C. Halloran
n.d.
Copy prints of early Bismarck and Halloran and Lyons family. (125 items)
00149 Minnesota Historical Society
circa 1843-1930
Scenes from around North Dakota, including images of farms of Norwegian and Danish immigrants in Sargent and Richland counties, the Gold Spike expedition for completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad 1883, and portraits and postcards.. (280 items)
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