Collection

Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0106.000
Item: 02467
Date: Undated
Title: Indian garden beds and corn hills
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0107.000
Item: 02506
Date: Undated
Title: Woven baskets of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, the large ones carry corn
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0108.000
Item: 02548
Date: 1927
Title: Ernest Thompson Seton and Frank Zahn with two unidentified 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: 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: 0110.000
Item: 02636
Date: Circa 1900
Title: Earth lodges and corn scaffolds at Old Fort Berthold. Identified by Red Bear as the "Mandan part of the village"
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0111.000
Item: 02663
Date: Undated
Title: Corn cobs of Mandan Sweet strain
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0111.000
Item: 02674
Date: Undated
Title: Mandan squash
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0117.000
Item: 02863
Date: circa 1898
Title: Dr. Niles Oliver Ramstad's first residence
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0133.000
Item: 03423
Date: circa 1900
Title: View of Oscar H. Will & Company nursery
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0133.000
Item: 03448
Date: circa 1930
Title: Oscar H. Will & Company nursery
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0137.000
Item: 03562
Date: 1956
Title: Oscar H. Will Nursery aerial, Bismarck (N.D.)
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0149.000
Item: 06282
Date: 7/16/1927
Title: Group of people, including George F. Will, Frank Zahn, Ernest Thompson Seton, Mrs. Buttree, and Mrs. Fisher, near Shields (N.D.), Woodcraft League Expedition
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0149.000
Item: 06293
Date: 7/16/1927
Title: Frank Zahn and American Indian dancer at powwow near Shields (N.D.), Ernest Thompson Seton and other Woodcraft League Expedition members can be seen in the background
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0149.000
Item: 06311
Date: 7/17/1927
Title: Men and women sit in circle in front of tipi, includes Frank Zahn, Ernest Thompson Seton, and possibly Helen Saunders and Gray Whirl Wind, Porcupine Creek near Shields (N.D.), Woodcraft League Expedition
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0151.000
Item: 06381
Date: circa 7/1927
Title: American Indians dressed in regalia pose with Frank Zahn, Fort Yates (N.D.)
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: 0151.000
Item: 06419
Date: circa 7/1927
Title: Two automobiles travel between buttes, Woodcraft League Expedition
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0151.000
Item: 06421
Date: circa 7/1927
Title: Automobile stuck near river, possibly near Denver (Colo.), Woodcraft League Expedition
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0151.000
Item: 06423
Date: circa 7/1927
Title: Members of the expedition seating near automobiles, Woodcraft League Expedition
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0151.000
Item: 06425
Date: circa 7/1927
Title: Woman, possibly Julia Buttree, prepares meal on chuckwagon cabinet of automobile, Woodcraft League Expedition
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0030.002
Item: 1886
Date: 1886
Creator: Oscar H. Will & Co. (Bismarck, N.D.)
Title: 1886 Seed Catalog
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0030.002
Item: 1887
Date: 1887
Creator: Oscar H. Will & Co. (Bismarck, N.D.)
Title: 1887 Seed Catalog
Collection: 10190 - Will Family Papers
Folder: 0030.002
Item: 1888
Date: 1888
Creator: Oscar H. Will & Co. (Bismarck, N.D.)
Title: 1888 Seed Catalog

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