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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00045
Title: Gothic Arch or Rainbow barn in the Red River Valley (N.D.)
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Vachon, John,--1914-1975
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0075-045, and "61535P", "Barn on large farm in Red River Valley, N.D." typed, and two stamps of image ownership by the Farm Security Administration.
Summary: A man stands outside the sliding door at one end of a balloon-framed wooden barn in the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Behind him are four farm buildings, including the massive Gothic arch barn, used for hay and livestock. This barn has a sliding panel entry door on the ground level on the front facade. High up in the curving arch of the roof a hood extends in a point over the closed hay door. Two double-hung windows, 6-over-6 lights each flank the lower panels of the hay door. Another hinged door, built with traditional barn
Red ID: PH_I_144937 Image ID: 101347 Image Notes: 00075-0045-back

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00045
Title: Gothic Arch or Rainbow barn in the Red River Valley (N.D.)
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Vachon, John,--1914-1975
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0075-045, and "61535P", "Barn on large farm in Red River Valley, N.D." typed, and two stamps of image ownership by the Farm Security Administration.
Summary: A man stands outside the sliding door at one end of a balloon-framed wooden barn in the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Behind him are four farm buildings, including the massive Gothic arch barn, used for hay and livestock. This barn has a sliding panel entry door on the ground level on the front facade. High up in the curving arch of the roof a hood extends in a point over the closed hay door. Two double-hung windows, 6-over-6 lights each flank the lower panels of the hay door. Another hinged door, built with traditional barn
Red ID: PH_I_144937 Image ID: 105971 Image Notes: 00075-00045

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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