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Title: Esther Vaagen Oral History Photograph Collection
Dates: ca. 1926-1950
Collection Number: 00032-DU-10
Quantity: 20 items
Abstract: Photographs copied from personal collection of Esther Vaagen during her Oral History Interview in Werner (ND), Dunn County. The interview can be found on Oral History Tape #289A&B.
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.
      
      Copyrights: Copyrights to this  collection remain with the donor, publisher, author, or author's heirs.   Researchers should consult the 1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94-553, Title 17,  U.S. Code or an archivist at this repository if clarification of copyright  requirements is needed.
      
      Access: This collection is open  under the rules and regulations of the State Historical Society of North  Dakota.
      
      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-DU-10-01       Theodore  Roosevelt shaking hands  
    00032-DU-10-02       Werner's  1st school, Werner (ND) ca. 1913-1914. Hannah Hansen, Esther  Eddington, Sara Libby, Carla and Jesse Robinson  
    00032-DU-10-03       Joe Voigt 8 mule team plow at Elbowoods  (ND) 1925                         
    00032-DU-10-04          Esther  Hansen, Jenny Surerus, Jim Vaagen, Hilmer Helgeson 1917 
    00032-DU-10-05       Aerial  view of Taylor (ND) 
    00032-DU-10-06       Joe  Voigt's hollowed out log water tank, South Elbowoods (ND) 1925 
    00032-DU-10-07       Ridgeway  Church 
    00032-DU-10-08       Normanna  Lutheran Church 
    00032-DU-10-09       Anton  Opsal at his sister Annie Opsal’s homestead shack, 12 miles north of Taylor (ND) 1914          
    00032-DU-10-10       Teolena  and Annie Opsal ca. 1914-1915 
    00032-DU-10-11       Ridgeway  Community Picnic at Iver Ingebrigston tree grove ca. 1914-1915 
    Norah;  1914-1915     
    00032-DU-10-12       L-R:  Anne Opsal, Clara Myron, Teolena Opsal, Norah Nayron in a Ford ca. 1914-1915 
    00032-DU-10-13       Lars,  Ole, Teddy Myron 
    00032-DU-10-14       Esther  and Jim Vaagen homestead, 13 miles north of Taylor (ND) 1919       
    00032-DU-10-15       Esther  Vaagen's school, Ridgeway #2 1917 
    00032-DU-10-16       Stone chicken coop 
    00032-DU-10-17       Magelkey's  threshing outfit, Ridgeway (ND) ca. 1914-1915 
    00032-DU-10-18       Christine  Hansen on horseback at Jim Vaagen's well 1918 
    00032-DU-10-19       Esther  Vaagen at work harvesting, Werner (ND)  1918 
    00032-DU-10-20       Mr.  H. P. (Hans Peter) Hansen plowing garden at nearly four score years of age, Werner (ND) 1924                                
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