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Collection Summary
Collection: 00050 - Agnes Potter Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00009
Title: The original rammed earth house of M H Gesaman, in Gascoyne Township, Morton County (N.D.)
Date: 1902
Inscription/Marks: [back] This is the original home of M.H. Gesaman, on the SE 1/4 of Sec. 22, Gascoyne Twp (130-99), and col. 50-09.
Summary: Snow dots the farmyard in the foreground of this photograph of a family standing in front of the buildings of their property in Gascoyne Township, Morton County, (N.D.). Taken in 1902, the scene shows five members of the M.H. Gesaman family outside the main house. A saddled horse and a dark cat join the people for this picture. A young woman in a dark dress wwith a white collar stands near the horse, a little boy and older girl at her side. an older woman in a white apron stands with her arms crossed near a man in a sweater and cap. Several structures are visible. Behind the man ia a low homestead shack made of stacked sod. It is adjacent to the house which is constructed using rammed earth technics common to this region. In the background is another sod blck shed, and a couple of wood-framed farm sheds.
Red ID: PH_I_144498 Image ID: 90041 Image Notes: 00050-00009-back

Collection: 00050 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Agnes Potter Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1880-1922

Summary: Photographs of events, towns, stagecoach, snow and housing in Bowman (N.D.), Scranton (N.D.), Gascoyne (N.D.) and Ralph (S.D.).

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Collection Summary
Collection: 00050 - Agnes Potter Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00009
Title: The original rammed earth house of M H Gesaman, in Gascoyne Township, Morton County (N.D.)
Date: 1902
Inscription/Marks: [back] This is the original home of M.H. Gesaman, on the SE 1/4 of Sec. 22, Gascoyne Twp (130-99), and col. 50-09.
Summary: Snow dots the farmyard in the foreground of this photograph of a family standing in front of the buildings of their property in Gascoyne Township, Morton County, (N.D.). Taken in 1902, the scene shows five members of the M.H. Gesaman family outside the main house. A saddled horse and a dark cat join the people for this picture. A young woman in a dark dress wwith a white collar stands near the horse, a little boy and older girl at her side. an older woman in a white apron stands with her arms crossed near a man in a sweater and cap. Several structures are visible. Behind the man ia a low homestead shack made of stacked sod. It is adjacent to the house which is constructed using rammed earth technics common to this region. In the background is another sod blck shed, and a couple of wood-framed farm sheds.
Red ID: PH_I_144498 Image ID: 94258 Image Notes: 00050-00009

Collection: 00050 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Agnes Potter Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1880-1922

Summary: Photographs of events, towns, stagecoach, snow and housing in Bowman (N.D.), Scranton (N.D.), Gascoyne (N.D.) and Ralph (S.D.).

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