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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0028
Item: 00562
Title: Workers prepare the track at the Cass County Fairgrounds, Fargo (N.D.)
Date: Circa 1925
Creator: Dewey, Archie L.,--1887-1967
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 75/562, "Fairgrounds, Fargo of Cass County", a stamp of Archie L. Dewey portrait and commercial photographer Fargo, N.D.
Summary: People are working on the race fairgrounds racetrack with two maintainers, and other assorted equipment, at the Cass County Fairgrounds in Fargo (N.D.). The image is taken from the grandstands. The grandstands are in the foreground, and behind the racetrack are the three large main livestock buildings.
Red ID: PH_I_145002 Image ID: 106037 Image Notes: 00075-00562

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: 0028
Item: 00562
Title: Workers prepare the track at the Cass County Fairgrounds, Fargo (N.D.)
Date: Circa 1925
Creator: Dewey, Archie L.,--1887-1967
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 75/562, "Fairgrounds, Fargo of Cass County", a stamp of Archie L. Dewey portrait and commercial photographer Fargo, N.D.
Summary: People are working on the race fairgrounds racetrack with two maintainers, and other assorted equipment, at the Cass County Fairgrounds in Fargo (N.D.). The image is taken from the grandstands. The grandstands are in the foreground, and behind the racetrack are the three large main livestock buildings.
Red ID: PH_I_145002 Image ID: 101359 Image Notes: 00075-0562-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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