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Collection Summary
Collection: 10003 - Linda (Warfel) and Benjamin Franklin Slaughter Family Papers
Series: Photographs
Folder: 0003
Item: 00007
Title: Mrs. Jack Shell and Gene dancing during Petroleum Wives Follies rehearsals, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: circa 1955
Creator: Owens, Mason
Inscription/Marks: "This is a proof Mason Owens Studio"--Stamped on front of photograph.
Summary: Mrs. Jack Shell and a man identified only as Gene dance on the stage of what is likely the World War Memorial Building in Bismarck during rehearsals for the Petroleum Wives Follies. A man in the background holds a curtain or some other piece of set decoration.
Red ID: MS_I_199985 Image ID: 144785 Image Notes: 10003-00007

Collection: 10003 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Linda (Warfel) and Benjamin Franklin Slaughter Family Papers
Date: circa 1850-2000

Summary: Papers of Linda (Warfel) Slaughter, her husband Benjamin Franklin Slaughter, daughters Linnie Lee (Mrs. Albin) Hedstrom, and Jessamine (Mrs. Arthur) Burgum, sister Aidee, granddaughter Hazel (Hedstrom) Eastman, grandson Ted Hedstrom, grandson Vern Hedstrom, and great-granddaughter Virginia (Eastman) Dullum. The collection also includes family history and genealogy information, newspaper clippings about the Slaughters, papers of Albin Hedstrom (Burleigh County Sheriff), Allan Eastman (Bismarck Tribune writer), Vern Hedstrom's Army records, and football and basketball coaching materials, and Allan’s parents Phillip K. and Maude Eastman (store owners in Wilton, N.D.).

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