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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0017
Item: 00673
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Title: Hogs in the cornfield at a North Dakota Agricultural College Experiment Station, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0017
Item: 00675
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Title: Hogs eating from a 25 bushel Utility Hog Feeder
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0018
Item: 00683
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Title: Threshing at the farm of Orris Nordhaugen, Leeds (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0018
Item: 00686
Date: Circa 1935
Title: "First Binder in the Northwest" in a parade on a street in Minot (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0018
Item: 00697
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Two men and a team of horses stacking alfalfa hay in North Dakota
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0018
Item: 00700
Date: 7/15/1937
Title: Farmer and tractor plow under a field of sunflowers
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0018
Item: 00733a
Date: 1936-1942
Title: Workers harvesting sugar beets on the Albert Sinner Farm, Casselton (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0018
Item: 00733b
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Hunt, Walter G.
Title: Men loading a team-drawn wagon with sugar beets on the Albert Sinner farm, Casselton (N.D.)
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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0019
Item: 00791
Date: 1936-1942
Title: WPA crews hard at work on a road near New Salem (N.D.)
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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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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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