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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-22
Item: 00014
Date: 1891
Creator: Fisher & Co. (Valley City, N.D.)
Title: Billy W. W. Smith
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-22
Item: 00012
Date: 07/1912
Title: Mark or Tom Smith and Reverend L. G. Moultrie at encampment at Chautauqua Park, Valley City (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-22
Item: 00010
Date: 1896
Creator: Fisher & Co. (Valley City, N.D.)
Title: Mark A. Smith
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-22
Item: 00008
Date: circa 1885
Creator: Fritz & Malnight (Valley City, D.T.)
Title: All Saints Episcopal Church, Valley City (D.T.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-22
Item: 00006
Date: 1905-1906
Title: Genevieve Lyford
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-22
Item: 00004
Date: 1895
Creator: Bye, Hartvick H.
Title: D. W. Clark dressed as the Old Forty-Niner, Valley City (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-22
Item: 00002
Date: 1895
Title: W. W. Smith hometown minstrel show, Valley City (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-15
Item: 00011
Date: 10/1912
Title: Potato harvest at Christ Hanson farm, Wimbledon (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-15
Item: 00009
Date: 1920-1930
Title: Doner School, Griggs Township, Barnes County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-15
Item: 00007
Date: circa 1925
Title: View from top of windmill after blizzard on Art Ven Huizen farm, Wimbledon (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-15
Item: 00005
Date: 1920
Title: Art Ven Huizen house on farm before remodeling, Wimbledon (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-15
Item: 00003
Date: 1920
Title: Art Ven Huizen farm, WImbledon (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-15
Item: 00001
Date: 07/04/1907
Creator: Schmidt Brothers (Wimbledon, N.D.)
Title: Race track, Wimbledon (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-10
Item: 00003
Date: 1925
Title: Raising windmill on the Murphy brothers farm, Pillsbury (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-10
Item: 00001
Date: 1925
Title: Percheron horses on the Murphy brothers farm, Pillsbury (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-09
Item: 00003
Date: 09/18/1930
Title: Ferdinand Steidl on tractor and six bottom plow
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-09
Item: 00001
Date: 1890-1900
Title: Mr. and Mrs. John Steidl Grandpa and Grandma
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-08
Item: 00007
Date: 1950
Title: Brothers of the brush 50th Anniversary, Kathryn (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-08
Item: 00005
Date: 1930-1940
Title: Ole Venas, first blacksmith in Kathryn (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-08
Item: 00003
Date: 1919
Title: Rural carrier Olaf Holberg, Postmaster K. O. Abrokamsen and Engebret Tommeraus outside the Post Office, Kathryn (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-08
Item: 00001
Date: 1905-1907
Title: First Sons of Norway, Kathryn (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-06
Item: 00025
Date: 1937
Title: Postal crew, Litchville (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-06
Item: 00023
Date: 1901-1903
Title: Anton Nelson homestead and school 2 miles W of Litchville (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-06
Item: 00021
Date: 1910-1920
Title: Panorama of Litchville (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: BA-06
Item: 00019
Date: 1904-1906
Title: Lew Boardwell's hardware and implement store after windstorm

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