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Collection: 00193 - Pauline Shoemaker Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00061
Title: Aftermath of Tornado, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 5/29/1909
Creator: Shoemaker, Pauline,--1879-1970
Inscription/Marks: "After cyclone May 29-09"--Printed on front of postcard.
Summary: Two horses, a cart, and two people are visible in the destruction after a tornado swept through Jamestown in May 1909. Buildings are leaning, or have collapsed entirely.||The May 1909 tornado swept up the James River from Ypsilanti to Jamestown, demolishing all of the buildings of the Jamestown Fair Association, and many other buildings in town.
Red ID: PH_I_148273 Image ID: 98170 Image Notes: 00193-00061

Collection: 00193 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Pauline Shoemaker Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1900 - Circa 1930

Summary: Postcards written to and from Pauline Shoemaker while she lived in Mandan (N.D.), Sheridan (Wyo.), California, and Bismarck (N.D.).

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