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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0007
Item: 00252
Date: 1936-1942
Title: A row of new houses being built in Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00286
Date: 1938-1941
Title: The WPA-modified Armory building in Jamestown (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00291
Date: 1936-1942
Title: WPA-built addition and the old schoolhouse in Plaza (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00293
Date: 4/21/1905
Title: WPA-built Festival Hall on the Wells County Fairgrounds, Fessenden (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00311
Date: 1937-1942
Title: WPA Bridge Project, Scranton (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0008
Item: 00319
Date: Circa 1930
Title: The Fire Station in Dickinson (N.D.) before the WPA addition
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0010
Item: 00384
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Bismarck Tribune (Firm)
Title: Farmer holding ears of corn beside full corn cribs
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0011
Item: 00407
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Bismarck Tribune (Firm)
Title: Young stockmen in a corral with a herd of sheep
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0011
Item: 00412
Date: 4/23/1905
Creator: Tribune Company (Bismarck, N.D.)--pbl
Title: Large number of domestic turkeys in a snowy farmyard
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0011
Item: 00427
Date: Circa 1940
Creator: Tribune Company (Bismarck, N.D.)--pbl
Title: Children having lunch in their school lunchroom, Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0012
Item: 00445
Date: 1935-1942
Creator: Bogenrief, Henry,--1903-1997
Title: People gather to watch the skiers at the ski jump in Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0012
Item: 00471
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Indian mother smiles while holding her sleeping baby
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0013
Item: 00490
Date: 1936-1940
Title: Scattered Corn with her metal hoe
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0013
Item: 00508
Date: 1936-1942
Title: The Antoine Gingras Trading Post, Walhalla (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0013
Item: 00510
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Trading Post of Antoine Gingras near Walhalla (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0014
Item: 00528
Date: 1936-1942
Title: "Devils Tooth" Boulder on Indian Service Road, Fort Totten Indian Reservation (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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