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Collection Summary
Collection: 00080 - Bismarck Tribune Photograph Collection
Folder: 0046
Item: 01938
Title: Tom Weigel holds a box containing a Bismarck Weather Bureau “Radiosonde” that he found while hunting near Flasher, North Dakota
Date: 11/6/1958
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0080-Box02-file20-01 is replaced with 00080-0046-01938, "Tom Weigel with “Radiosonde” that he found and returned to the Weather Bureau here B.T. November 7, 1958 p.7", 2 col, 17572, "75" encircled, and the dated red Tribune credit stamp.
Summary: A young man from Bismarck, Tom Weigel, stands with a box containing a Radiosconde, sent aloft from the BIsmarck Weather Bureau on October 31, 1958, and found by the young hunter near Flasher, North Dakota days later. He is returning this according to the instructions on the device, to the Bismarck Weather office. Weigel is 15, and lies at 314 15th Street with his parents Marcella and Mike.
Red ID: PH_I_145156 Image ID: 106193 Image Notes: 00080-box02-folder20-01

Collection: 00080 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Bismarck Tribune Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1930-1980

Summary: Images used in the Bismarck Tribune newspapers from the 1930s-1970s.

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