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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00002
Date: ca. 1910
Title: Paulson residence near Paulson (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00009
Date: 1906
Title: Frances Ryan Homestead, Haley (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00019
Date: ca. 1910
Title: First Fire Engine in Scranton (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00024
Date: 1907
Title: Engineers camp of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railroad, Gascoyne (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00027
Date: ca. 1910
Title: Coal Mining at Spring Creek
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00032
Date: ca. 1906
Title: Interior of A L Cody's Homestead Shack
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00036
Date: ca. 1905
Title: Sod house
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00038
Date: ca. 1920
Title: Elevator fire in Scranton (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00048
Date: ca. 1907
Title: Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad camp on Virgin Creek (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00054
Date: ca. 1890
Creator: Ingersoll, T. W.--(Truman Ward),--1862-1922
Title: Medora-Deadwood Stagecoach Dickinson (D.T.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00005
Date: ca. 1900
Title: Pool Hall in Haley (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00011
Date: 1907
Creator: Rural Area Development Committee (Bowman County, N.D.)
Title: Ida Kulsrud's Sod house interior Whiteside Township, Bowman County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00023
Date: 1907
Title: Engineers' camp, Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul Railroad, Bowman County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00026
Date: 1907
Title: Grading on the Chicago Milwaukee Railroad 1907
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00030
Date: 1911
Title: Homestead shack interior 1911 Addie Myrtle Bell Teacher Eden School
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00033
Date: 1908
Creator: Rural Area Development Committee (Bowman County, N.D.)
Title: Interior of homestead shack Haley, Bowman County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00037
Date: ca. 1905
Title: John Nibbe plowing with his team
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00042
Date: 1913
Title: Sod school house, Codyville (N.D.)
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00053
Date: 1906
Title: N. S. Nelson with oxen and wagon
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00055
Date: ca. 1910
Title: Cutting ice on the Brook-side (Booen) Farm
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00006
Date: 1910
Creator: Bowman County Historical & Genealogical Society
Title: John Smith and Hy Larson cut hair in Smith's barbershop, Scranton (N.D.)

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