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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00006
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Two young men eating at a makeshift table
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00016
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Associated Press
Title: Two North Dakota coal miners looking at a gauge
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00020
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Associated Press
Title: Two coal miners eating meal underground
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00023
Date: 11/15/1940
Title: Truax-Traer Coal Co. employee strip-mining a field with a Caterpillar D8 Tractor & LeTourneau Carryall Scraper, Wilton (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00023
Date: 11/15/1940
Title: Truax-Traer Coal Co. employee strip-mining a field with a Caterpillar D8 Tractor & LeTourneau Carryall Scraper, Wilton (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00026
Date: Circa 1925
Creator: North Dakota Agricultural College
Title: People and cars gathering in a field with a large tent
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00033
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Fargo Forum
Title: Woman with wheat sheaves
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00035
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Farmer mowing alfalfa hay
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00043
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Grain field in drought
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00045
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Vachon, John,--1914-1975
Title: Gothic Arch or Rainbow barn in the Red River Valley (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00045
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Vachon, John,--1914-1975
Title: Gothic Arch or Rainbow barn in the Red River Valley (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00072
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Quentin Daley, at the Walsh County Agricultural and Training School, surveys his hog feeding project
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00072
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Quentin Daley, at the Walsh County Agricultural and Training School, surveys his hog feeding project
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00089
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Field of soybeans in Richland County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00089
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Field of soybeans in Richland County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00095
Date: 1936-1942
Title: The Bridgeman-Russell Company building, Grand Forks (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00096
Date: 1936-1942
Title: The Northern Packing Company, Grand Forks (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00116
Date: 6/9/1939
Title: Parade for the visiting Norwegian Prince Olav and his wife, in downtown Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00118
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Two barrel-laden wagons standing by a round water tank in a bleak field
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00119
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Livestock drinking water from a windmill powered stock tank
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00126
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Beef cattle in stockyard by a railroad track
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00127
Date: 4/22/1905
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Title: Kell Lovell and Barbara Ann Zimbrick eating hot dogs at the anniversary of Killdeer (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00127
Date: 4/22/1905
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Title: Kell Lovell and Barbara Ann Zimbrick eating hot dogs at the anniversary of Killdeer (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00139
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Title: Young girl in her Dude Ranch attire
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00139
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Title: Young girl in her Dude Ranch attire

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