Collection

Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0110.000
Item: 02621
Date: 1930
Creator: Reid, Russell,--1900-1967
Title: Cedar Tree Ceremony, Elbowoods (N.D.)
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0147.000
Item: 05903
Date: circa 1923
Creator: Gilmore, Melvin R.--(Melvin Randolph),--1868-1940
Title: George F. Will Sr. Negatives: Native American men carry cedar tree near Elbowoods (N.D.) at Fort Berthold
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0147.000
Item: 05905
Date: circa 1923
Creator: Gilmore, Melvin R.--(Melvin Randolph),--1868-1940
Title: George F. Will Sr. Negatives: Native American men carry cedar tree near Elbowoods (N.D.) at Fort Berthold
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0072.000
Item: 01438
Date: Circa 1944
Creator: Risem, Andreas--1876-1957
Title: George F. Will Sr. portrait
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0099.000
Item: 02323
Date: Circa 1940
Title: Portrait of A. J. Scott with daughter Peggy
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0099.000
Item: 02325
Date: 4/9/1939
Title: Peggy Scott's sixth birthday party
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0107.000
Item: 02505
Date: Circa 1920
Title: Arikara woman drying corn on the top of her house
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0108.000
Item: 02542
Date: 1927
Title: Frank Zahn and Ernest Thompson Seton with unidentified group of American Indians
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0108.000
Item: 02563
Date: 1927
Title: The Indian Expedition 1927 of the Woodcraft League sit around a campfire. Includes George F. Will Sr., Ernest Thompson Seton, Clyde Fisher, Te Ata Fisher, Russell Reid, Lewis F. Crawford, and others
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0110.000
Item: 02611
Date: 7/4/1935
Title: Clyde Fisher and Paul Zahn at Sitting Bull's grave in Fort Yates (N.D.)
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0110.000
Item: 02613
Date: 7/4/1935
Title: Group of people at Sitting Bull's grave in Fort Yates (N.D.). Includes George F. Will Jr., Vera Will, Margaret Will, Clyde Fisher, Paul Zahn, Clell Gannon, and other unidentified people
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0111.000
Item: 02656
Date: Circa 1920
Title: American Indian woman standing on top of log cabin with corn drying
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0111.000
Item: 02665
Date: Undated
Title: Corn cobs of Mandan strain
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0112.000
Item: 02737
Date: Undated
Title: Close-up of Mandan squash on vine
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0117.000
Item: 02864
Date: circa 1898
Title: Dr. Niles Oliver Ramstad house
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0133.000
Item: 03430
Date: circa 1910
Title: Oscar H. Will & Company nursery
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0137.000
Item: 03561
Date: 1956
Title: Oscar H. Will Nursery aerial, Bismarck (N.D.)
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0149.000
Item: 06277
Date: 7/15/1927
Title: Frank Zahn, interpreter for the Woodcraft League Expedition, and George F. Will Sr., Fort Yates (N.D.)
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0149.000
Item: 06286
Date: 7/16/1927
Title: Frank Zahn and No Heart standing in front of tipi in Shields (N.D.), Woodcraft League Expedition
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0149.000
Item: 06309
Date: 7/17/1927
Title: Ernest Thompson Seton and Frank Zahn at Gray Whirl Wind's home, Porcupine Creek near Shields (N.D.), Woodcraft League Expedition
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0150.000
Item: 06338
Date: 7/20/1927
Title: Members of the Woodcraft League Expedition standing in a clearing in the Spearfish Canyon (S.D.), includes Helen Saunders, George F. Will Sr., Ernest Thompson Seton, and possibly Frank Zahn
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0151.000
Item: 06407
Date: 7/4/1935
Title: Frank Zahn and One Bull at Bull Head (S.D.), photograph by Clyde Fisher
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0151.000
Item: 06411
Date: 7/4/1935
Title: Frank Zahn, Te Ata, and One Bull at Bull Head (S.D.), photograph by Clyde Fisher
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0073.000
Item: 01465
Date: Circa 1954
Title: George F. Will Sr. portrait
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0099.000
Item: 02324
Date: Circa 1933
Title: Portrait of a child, possibly Peggy Scott

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