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Collection Summary
Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: NE-08
Item: 00003
Title: Reverend and Mrs. H. C. Olsen of Middle Forest River Lutheran Church, Dahlen (N.D.)
Date: 1904
Inscription/Marks: "Picture taken in 1904." Also, label with return address which reads: "Mrs. Ruth Dahlen, Route 1, Box 16, Michigan, North Dakota."
Summary: Indoor portrait of Reverend and Mrs. H. C. Olsen and their family in their living room of their pastorage for the Middle Forest River Lutheran Church in Dahlen (ND). He is seated in a high back wooden chair with some papers in his lap. Next to him a young boy in a white shirt with lace collar and frilly front is sticking his left hand through the rails of a baby carriage with a baby asleep in it. On the floor in front of the Pastor are two young girls looking at an image of a girl in a fancy hat. One girl is wearing a plaid dress and the other a plain coloured dress. To their right (photo left) is an older woman with a young girl in a light coloured dress seated on her lap. The older woman is wearing a white blouse with a bow at her neck and a dark skirt. In the background is another older woman seated at the table wearing a dark top with tied scarf. The table holds a sewing machine, spools of thread and a couple of photograph albums. Photo left is a fireplace with a photograph and a number of nick-nacks on the mantle and wall above it. The window is covered with drapes strung on a straight rod and a small tree plant is in front of it. A photograph of a woman is on the wall behind Reverend Olsen and another on the wall photo right with a group photograph of women sitting on the table behind the young boy.
Red ID: PH_I_121570 Image ID: 184083 Image Notes: 00032-NE-08-00003

Collection: 00032 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1977

Summary: Consists of copies of photographs belonging to people interviewed for the North Dakota Oral History Project. The Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

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