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Collection: 00245 - Alan K. Grindberg Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00002
Title: Group waiting to meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Devils Lake airfield
Date: 08/07/1934
Summary: Group of seven men, Gerald Nye second from left, Secretary of War Pat Hurley, State Geologist Dr. Simpson, Mark V. Traynor, Noll Thorolson, and A. V. Haig. Waiting to meet F.D.R. flying into Devil’s Lake (N.D.) Cars parked in background.
Red ID: PH_I_149415 Image ID: 99320 Image Notes: 00245-00002

Collection: 00245 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Alan K. Grindberg Photograph Collection
Date: 1925-1965

Summary: Images of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit to Devils Lake in 1934, hull of the Steamer Minnie H, Governor and Mrs. Jon Davis and Brynhild Haugland at the Mandan Refinery, Governor Norman Brunsdale at a reclamation meeting at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, a group of North Dakotans at the U.S. Capitol, and Governor Bill Guy and Walter Hjelle fishing. Also includes images of various places where relatives of Mrs. Inez (Loftesnes) Grindberg worked. Includes the original of The Sons and Daughters of Norway group photo from the Per Sivle Loge, images of Bucyrus and Marion power shovels at work at the Truax Trauer Coal Mine, Wilton (N.D.), tipple and coal loading facility; railroad crews working on rails, an irrigation demonstration at Nesson Dome in Ray (N.D.), an unidentified community building, and a farmer on a tractor pulling a wood thresher.

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