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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: FO-05
Item: 00015
Title: Carl Bloomquist with Birtsell Township horse drawn road grader N of Barlow (N.D.)
Date: 1900-1910
Creator: Eggleton, John
Inscription/Marks: "Carl Bloomquist." This info is taken from 3 x 5 card attached to photo, "Birtsell Township road grader. Grader with 8 (6?) horses hitched to (?) in front of farm buildings in west southeast corner of Section 1, Township 147, Range 67, just north of Barlow (ND). Man at right with Len and Fresno (?). Taken before 1910. No photographer, probably John Eggleton."
Summary: Carl Bloomquist sits on the back of the Birtsell Township road grader over the blade, while Len and Fresno are to his right, one driving the eight horses pulling road grader. Another man (unidentified) is behind them with a two horse plow clearing the ditch. In the background are farm buildings which may be the Bloomquist farm.
Red ID: PH_I_122273 Image ID: 183389 Image Notes: 00032-FO-05-00015

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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