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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0006
Item: 00208
Date: 10/1937
Creator: Lee, Russell
Title: Main Street of Michigan (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0014
Item: 00524
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Woman working at a post office sorting cabinet
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0027
Item: 01182
Date: 3/24/1905
Title: Mail carriers Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ogden of Oakes (N.D.) with mail bags
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00580
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Rustic WPA-built milepost marker on Waubay National Wildlife Refuge (S.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0012
Item: 00476
Date: Circa 1920
Title: Great Northern Railroad Bridge over the Pembina River, Neche (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0009
Item: 00329
Date: Circa 1930
Title: Plowing snow in downtown Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0005
Item: 00172
Date: 7/26/1936
Title: Ranchers pushing cattle into stream
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0005
Item: 00165
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Harris, Leo D.
Title: George Voight with Rainbow, the great wild Pinto Stallion
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00136
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Three men on horseback watch cattle standing in a stream
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00042
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Dry and dusty field with withered crops
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00059
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Dying corn crop shriveled in the field
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00578
Date: 1937-1942
Title: WPA project building the "Subsistence Homesteads" near Burlington (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0006
Item: 00212
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Dried up farm field in North Dakota
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0005
Item: 00165
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Harris, Leo D.
Title: George Voight with Rainbow, the great wild Pinto Stallion
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00149
Date: 1936-1942
Title: White-faced cattle grazing on the open range, Fort Berthold (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00122
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Small herd of cattle moving up a drying up stream
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00060
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Drought-stressed corn dead in the field
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00581
Date: 8/22/1936
Creator: Bliss, Paul Southworth,--1889-1940
Title: WPA-built Hippodrome auditorium in Jamestown (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00586
Date: 1938-1939
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Title: WPA workers building the Winter Sports Arena, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00576
Date: 6/9/1940
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Title: People on Broadway Street for "Shopping Day" in Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00579
Date: 4/19/1905
Title: Tolley Community Hall, Renville County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00586
Date: 1938-1939
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Title: WPA workers building the Winter Sports Arena, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00577
Date: 1936-1940
Creator: Bogenreif, Henry,--1903-1997
Title: Barnett Field and grandstand during a baseball game, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00573
Date: 6/1939
Title: All-girls band marching in the parade honoring the Crown Prince of Norway, in downtown Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00592
Date: Circa 1935
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Title: Draft horse team ready to pull a wagon in a farmyard

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