Details

Collection Summary
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1503_00001
Title: William (ChWeUm) Davis
Date: ca. 1920
Summary: Portrait of ChWeUm Davis, sitting outside a house taking notes with his right hand and holding a book in his left. Born in Saint-Boniface in 1845, de was an early historian of the Turtle Mountain region. He preserved souvenirs and impressions of 19th century buffalo hunts, as well as his historical notes on the Turtle Mountain community, in five notebooks. Davis learned to read and write with Father Georges-Antoine Belcourt, who taught the children of Pembina (1845–1859), with the help of Red River Metis women. Davis left his notebooks in the care of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Davis passed away January 27, 1937, in Belcourt, North Dakota. He was 91 years old.
Red ID: PH_I_100320 Image ID: 170027 Image Notes: A1503-00001

Collection: A Digitized Images from Collection
Title: A Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

Summary:

Enter a subject or term in one or both of the “Search” boxes.

  • “Item Detail” searches the Title, Creator and Summary fields of all item-level records.
  • “Collection Number” searches the Collection Number field only and requires an exact match.

The “DETAILS” button provides additional information about an item, as well as the following options:

  • “Collection Summary” details the contents of the entire collection in which the selected item is located.
  • You can print the image and its corresponding details by selecting “Print".
  • “Digitized Images from the Collection” returns a list of all digitized items within that collection (available from the “Collection Summary” screen).

Click on image to expand/zoom the image view.

“Photobook home” takes you back to the main Photobook page where you can start a new search.

“Featured Collections” showcases new and/or popular collections and the digitized images within those collections.

Information on how to order copies is located here.

The collections preserved in the North Dakota State Archives include over a million images. Only a small percentage of these images have been digitized. This photo gallery provides a preview of the images that have been digitized.

For more information on the non-digitized images, please refer to the finding aids found on our website at history.nd.gov, or ask a member of our reference staff for assistance.