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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: MN-20
Item: 00031
Title: Andrew and Olaf Ruden's threshing crew, White Earth (N.D.)
Date: 1914-1915
Summary: The threshing crew owned by Andrew and Olaf Ruden pause for this photograph during a job near White Earth, N.D.||Olaf and Andrew Ruden owned a threshing engine and hired a crew each year to operate it. The Rudens traveled with their crew and equipment from one farm to another until all the wheat was threshed and ready to send to market. The threshing engine that powered the thresher had to be set up far from the thresher in order to prevent the straw stacks from catching fire from a spark. The long belt carried power from the engine to the thresher. The engine operated on steam power, so barrels of water are available near the engine. Horses pulled the wagons loaded with bundles of wheat to the thresher. Horse-drawn wagons carried away the wheat kernels that were thrown from the thresher. This picture was taken near White Earth around 1915.
Red ID: PH_I_121857 Image ID: 54252 Image Notes: 00032-MN-20-00031

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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