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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00003
Date: ca. 1930
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: Playground apparatus outside of a one room school
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00005
Date: 4/25/1929
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: Playground apparatus at an Open Country Consolidated School, McLean County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00007
Date: 4/25/1929
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: Bird's Eye View, Washburn (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00009
Date: 1924
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: Arthur E. Thompson setting up tent north of Medora (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00011
Date: ca. 1920
Creator: DeGraff, William H.,--1852-1938
Title: Courthouse in Washburn (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00013
Date: 1924
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: County Superintendents of Schools Convention at Chateau de Mores, Medora (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00015
Date: ca. 1925
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: Summer Round-up Committee
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00002
Date: 4/25/1929
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: PTA picnic in McLean County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00004
Date: 4/25/1929
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: Rural PTA Band, Mercer (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00006
Date: 4/25/1929
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: Rural PTA Picnic, McLean County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00008
Date: 1920
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: First National Bank, Washburn (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00010
Date: 1924
Creator: DeGraff, William H.,--1852-1938
Title: Arthur E. Thompson standing next to log cabin
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00012
Date: 1924
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: Automobiles in front of the Olson Ranch near Medora (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00014
Date: 1924
Creator: Thompson, Arthur E
Title: County Superintendents of Schools Convention at Chateau de Mores, Medora (N.D.)

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