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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00282
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Community Building constructed by the WPA in Plaza (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00287
Date: 1936-1942
Title: WPA-built Art Deco Fairgrounds building, Grand Forks (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00292
Date: 4/22/1905
Title: Construction project by the WPA for a new Sheridan County Courthouse in McClusky (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00300
Date: 1936-1942
Title: WPA workers hard at work on the Ashley School addition, Ashley (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00312
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Theodore Roosevelt Cabin and the Chisholm Gate on the Capitol Grounds, Bismarck ND
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0009
Item: 00323
Date: Circa 1930
Creator: Presthus, Ingemar
Title: Three early buildings at the State Teachers College, Dickinson (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0010
Item: 00386
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Display of Indian agricultural tools, scapula hoe, seed drill, antler and willow rakes, and braided corn
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0011
Item: 00409
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Tribune Company (Bismarck, N.D.)--pbl
Title: Man poses by the sty with two fat pigs and a rifle
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0011
Item: 00426
Date: Circa 1940
Creator: Tribune Company (Bismarck, N.D.)--pbl
Title: Children prepare to eat in their school lunchroom, Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0011
Item: 00431
Date: Circa 1925
Creator: Osborn Photo Studio (Dickinson, N.D.)
Title: Briquetting Plant in Lehigh (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0018
Item: 00724
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Farmstead in winter scene
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0012
Item: 00472
Date: 4/21/1905
Creator: Reid, Russell
Title: Newly WPA-constructed blockhouses at Fort McKeen, Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, Mandan (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0013
Item: 00507
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Metal bridge spanning a river in an unidentified part of North Dakota
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0013
Item: 00509
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Antoine Gingras' Walhalla area house, Pembina County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0013
Item: 00512
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Panoramic view of Tobacco Gardens, McKenzie County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0014
Item: 00531
Date: 1936-1942
Title: George Armstrong Custer's campsite and trail at the Pump Coulee site, Grant County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0014
Item: 00539
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Title: Dairy herd in the corral between two dairy barns in North Dakota
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0014
Item: 00543
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Northern Pacific Railway Company
Title: Potato harvest crew work a field somewhere in eastern North Dakota
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0014
Item: 00547
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Henry Trowlund with corn in the Red River Valley
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0014
Item: 00548
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Farmer harvesting corn in the Red River Valley, North Dakota
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0028
Item: 00562
Date: Circa 1925
Creator: Dewey, Archie L.,--1887-1967
Title: Workers prepare the track at the Cass County Fairgrounds, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00565
Date: 1937-1942
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Title: Federal Aid project bridge over the Red River between Fargo (N.D.) & Moorhead (Minn.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00566
Date: 1936-1942
Title: The WPA-built Tenth Street Underpass at Main Avenue, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00567
Date: 1939-1942
Title: WPA-built underpasses for the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00569
Date: 1926-1942
Title: First National Bank & Trust building, Fargo (N.D.)

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