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Collection Summary
Collection: 00170 - Martin O. Helseth Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00014
Title: North Dakota Laborers striking
Date: 1911
Creator: Olsen, Fred
Inscription/Marks: "No. Dakota laborers striking for higher wages Copyright 1911 by Fred Olsen"--Printed on front of postcard."We had sit down strikes them days too"--Handwritten on back of postcard.
Summary: Oxen sit on the ground in front of a piece of agricultural machinery on a North Dakota farm.
Red ID: PH_I_148123 Image ID: 98015 Image Notes: 00170-00014

Collection: 00170 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Martin O. Helseth Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1900

Summary: Early images of homesteading, coal mining, the Interstate Fair, and towns in western North Dakota including Beach, Bowbells, Ambrose, Powers Lake, Dickinson, Columbus, and Cooperstown.

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Collection Summary
Collection: 00170 - Martin O. Helseth Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00014
Title: North Dakota Laborers striking
Date: 1911
Creator: Olsen, Fred
Inscription/Marks: "No. Dakota laborers striking for higher wages Copyright 1911 by Fred Olsen"--Printed on front of postcard."We had sit down strikes them days too"--Handwritten on back of postcard.
Summary: Oxen sit on the ground in front of a piece of agricultural machinery on a North Dakota farm.
Red ID: PH_I_148123 Image ID: 90887 Image Notes: 00170-00014-back

Collection: 00170 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Martin O. Helseth Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1900

Summary: Early images of homesteading, coal mining, the Interstate Fair, and towns in western North Dakota including Beach, Bowbells, Ambrose, Powers Lake, Dickinson, Columbus, and Cooperstown.

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