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Collection Summary
Collection: 00009 - Job V. Harrison Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00020
Title: Surveying team near Devils Lake N.D.
Date: circa 1910
Creator: Harrison, Job V. (Job Vincent),--1873-1955
Inscription/Marks: Noted on back: Col, 9-20 Harrison Collection. Surveying., and Gift, State Game and Fish Dept., Aug. 1964
Summary: A survey crew works in the Devils Lake area. A horse and buggy are at the left side of the scene. Nearest to the buggy is a man in dark clothes, hat, and light suspenders, who has finished placing one stake and holds a new one in his hand. Nearby, one man holds the stadia rod while another man watches. Off to the right is the surveyor with the transit. Horses and carriages are visible in the background. Behind the surveying crew is a long open prairie view, with a strip of water or snow.
Red ID: PH_I_141675 Image ID: 102595 Image Notes: 00009-00020

Collection: 00009 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Job V. Harrison Photo Collection
Date: 1890-1940

Summary: Images taken in and around Devils Lake (N.D.) and some unidentified states by Job V. Harrison. Subjects include: homestead shacks, sailboat on Devils Lake, Rock Island Steamer, Minnie H Steamboat, Chautauqua Celebration, veterans, threshing, straw burner, tar paper shack, Metis, surveyors, automobile, hunting, Fort Totten (N.D.), A. R. Bragg, Mississippi River, Watson Sisters Burlesque poster.

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