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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: 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: 00033
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Fargo Forum
Title: Woman with wheat sheaves
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 00143
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Title: Horseman Ben Bird of Killdeer (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00146b
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Title: Cattle being rounded up for shipment
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00146a
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Title: Branding one of Rainbow's offspring
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00148
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Title: Beef cattle in stockyards waiting for shipment
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0005
Item: 00163
Date: 4/22/1905
Title: W. J. Steinbach and friends enjoy a picnic lunch in his shelterbelt, New Rockford (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0005
Item: 00191
Date: 1936-1938
Title: WPA workers at site of the Mandan Filtration Plant, Mandan (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0006
Item: 00205
Date: 4/23/1905
Title: Aerial view of Minot (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0006
Item: 00220
Date: 9/18/1937
Title: Caterpillar Diesel RD8 & 48 elevating grader building road, Eckleson (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0006
Item: 00224
Date: 4/9/1905
Creator: Rognlie, Paul B. Christopher,--1871-1952
Title: Norwegian Americans gather for a folk dance, Esmond (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0006
Item: 00231
Date: 11/5/1940
Creator: Vachon, John,--1914-1975
Title: Two German Russian farmers waiting to vote in presidential elections, McIntosh County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0006
Item: 00233
Date: 11/5/1940
Creator: Vachon, John,--1914-1975
Title: German Russian farmers waiting to cast presidential ballots at the Beaver Creek Precinct in the country school house, McIntosh County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0007
Item: 00244
Date: 2/23/1905
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Title: Sitting Bull Studio portrait

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