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Collection: 00362 - Pembina Post Offices and Cavileer Home Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00001
Title: Post Office at Pembina, D.T.
Date: 1863
Inscription/Marks: "Post office Pembina D.T. 1863"--Handwritten on front of photograph.
Summary: Men, women, and children stand outside the Pembina Post Office and home of Charles Cavileer. A Red River cart is also parked outside the building. Pembina was the oldest community in Dakota Territory in 1863. It had been a fur trading post as well as a customs office for decades.
Red ID: PH_I_140664 Image ID: 106658 Image Notes: 00362-0001-caption

Collection: 00362 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Pembina Post Offices and Cavileer Home Photograph Collection
Date: 1863-XXXX

Summary: Three photographs of Post Office buildings and the home of Charles/Edmund Cavileer in Pembina, N.D./D.T. The photographs are affixed to a page with information on the buildings.

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Collection: 00362 - Pembina Post Offices and Cavileer Home Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00001
Title: Post Office at Pembina, D.T.
Date: 1863
Inscription/Marks: "Post office Pembina D.T. 1863"--Handwritten on front of photograph.
Summary: Men, women, and children stand outside the Pembina Post Office and home of Charles Cavileer. A Red River cart is also parked outside the building. Pembina was the oldest community in Dakota Territory in 1863. It had been a fur trading post as well as a customs office for decades.
Red ID: PH_I_140664 Image ID: 101923 Image Notes: 00362-00001

Collection: 00362 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Pembina Post Offices and Cavileer Home Photograph Collection
Date: 1863-XXXX

Summary: Three photographs of Post Office buildings and the home of Charles/Edmund Cavileer in Pembina, N.D./D.T. The photographs are affixed to a page with information on the buildings.

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