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Collection Summary
Collection: 10958 - William E. "Bill" Shemorry Papers
Folder: 0003
Item: 01110
Title: Williston Fire Department fire men and equipment with jump net at old fire hall, Williston (N.D.)
Date: circa 1950
Creator: Shemorry, Bill,--1914-2004
Summary: In what must be a gag phtoograph, fire fighters stand outside the Williston Fire Department station dressed in uniforms. One man is laying on the sidewalk as if he had fallen from the top of the building. Another man is bent over as if giving him aid. The man on the far right in the group is holding a ladder, while the man next to him is wearing a special suit. The firemen's trampoline or net is standing behind the group.
Red ID: MS_I_566722 Image ID: 528180 Image Notes: 10958-01110

Collection: 10958 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: William E. "Bill" Shemorry Papers
Date: circa 1870-2004

Summary: The collection consists of office files (research, newspaper and magazine clippings, article drafts, and published articles), slides, photographs, negatives, and glass plate negatives related to Shemorry’s career as a newspaper publisher, photographer, reporter, historian, researcher and author in Williston, N.D.

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