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Collection Summary
Collection: 00009 - Job V. Harrison Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00026
Title: Women in Indian camp, Fort Totten (N.D.)
Date: circa 1910
Creator: Harrison, Job V
Inscription/Marks: [Handwritten on back of photograph]: Col 9-26 Harrison collection. Fort Totten Indians. Gift State Game and Fish Dept., Aug. 1964...Fort Totten, ca. 1908-1910
Summary: A camp scene showing a tipi and tent encampment of a group of Fort Totten Indians. Nine people are in the camp picture. Two women in long dark cloth dresses and stunning traditional breastplates made of bone hair pipes, stand together in front of one tipi, the post securing the wind-flap between them. Slightly behind this is the second tipi, the cover of which is rolled up for access and ventilation. Seated in front of this tipi is a family group including a young woman with a very young infant, another woman holding a toddler in a brimmed hat, and man in dark hat, white shirt, dark pants and moccasins. A horse and wagon can be seen behind this tipi. In the far left of the camp a small girl in dress and hair-bow is at the back of a wagon, with another small child. The wagon is pulled near a canvas tent.
Red ID: PH_I_141676 Image ID: 176771 Image Notes: 00009-00026-back

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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Collection Summary
Collection: 00009 - Job V. Harrison Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00026
Title: Women in Indian camp, Fort Totten (N.D.)
Date: circa 1910
Creator: Harrison, Job V
Inscription/Marks: [Handwritten on back of photograph]: Col 9-26 Harrison collection. Fort Totten Indians. Gift State Game and Fish Dept., Aug. 1964...Fort Totten, ca. 1908-1910
Summary: A camp scene showing a tipi and tent encampment of a group of Fort Totten Indians. Nine people are in the camp picture. Two women in long dark cloth dresses and stunning traditional breastplates made of bone hair pipes, stand together in front of one tipi, the post securing the wind-flap between them. Slightly behind this is the second tipi, the cover of which is rolled up for access and ventilation. Seated in front of this tipi is a family group including a young woman with a very young infant, another woman holding a toddler in a brimmed hat, and man in dark hat, white shirt, dark pants and moccasins. A horse and wagon can be seen behind this tipi. In the far left of the camp a small girl in dress and hair-bow is at the back of a wagon, with another small child. The wagon is pulled near a canvas tent.
Red ID: PH_I_141676 Image ID: 176770 Image Notes: 00009-00026

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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