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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: NE-11
Item: 00008
Date: 1907-1908
Title: Bill and Joe Matecek with horse and buggy, N of Whitman (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: NE-10
Item: 00007
Date: 1937
Title: Whitman School horse drawn school bus
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: NE-08
Item: Intv0002
Date: 2/13/1976
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Helmer and Ruth Dahlen, Michigan (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: NE-08
Item: 00006
Date: 1918
Creator: Thorson, Martin
Title: Elvin Helmer, Grandpa Ole Dahlen and Harry Bond grading roads in Grand Forks County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: NE-08
Item: 00004
Date: 1900
Title: Middle Forest River Lutheran Church congregation, Dahlen (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: NE-08
Item: 00002
Date: 1881
Creator: Holland, Alexander
Title: Elling and Dahlen family
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: NE-06
Item: 00005
Date: 1914-1919
Title: Halvor and Albert Erickson's oil pull tractor with threshing rig from Michigan (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: NE-06
Item: 00003
Date: 1916
Title: Putting up hay on Art Estvold's farm 2 1/2 miles S of Michigan (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25ca-03
Item: 00005
Date: 1913
Creator: Arnegard, Alice J.,--1898-1993
Title: Red Crown Gasoline station with owner Leopold C. Strigel and his worker Arnegard (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25a-02
Item: 00007
Title: Two Men with pick-axes digging tunnel Railroad Construction Arnegard ND
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25a-02
Item: 00001
Title: Arnegard School 1923-1924
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25a-02
Item: 00023
Title: Workers completing construction and siding of Albert O Arnegard Mercantile Company Store Arnegard ND 1913
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25a-02
Item: 00021
Title: Tracks leading into underground coal mine in McKenzie County ND 1913
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25a-02
Item: 00019
Title: A Guthrie and Company Railroad Contractors No 2 building railroad near Arnegard ND 1913
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25
Item: 00007
Date: circa 1913
Title: Marion Steam Shovel Model 76 at railroad construction site, Arnegard (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25
Item: 00005
Date: 1913
Title: John Evanger Proprietor, City Cafe, Arnegard (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25
Item: 00001
Date: 1913
Title: Nesseth's Cafe. Arnegard (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-25
Item: 00001
Date: 1913
Title: Nesseth's Cafe. Arnegard (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-24
Item: 00022
Date: XX
Title: Turkey Track Bill
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-24
Item: 00020
Date: 1907
Title: Separating out horses from 75 Ranch with chuckwagon catch rope
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-24
Item: 00008
Date: 1907
Title: Roundup cook Clyde Mercer at Keogh Ranch 75
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-22
Item: 00010
Date: XX
Title: Coal mine near Cartwright (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-20
Item: 00017
Date: 1906
Creator: Christensen, Ralph,--1911-1982
Title: Building the first railroad in McKenzie County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-20
Item: 00015
Date: 1913
Creator: Christensen, Ralph,--1911-1982
Title: Frank Rubey's claim near Schafer (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MZ-20
Item: 00013
Date: 1950
Creator: Christensen, Ralph,--1911-1982
Title: Jay Newman Grantier

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