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Collection Summary
Collection: 00398 - Alice and Clair Southam Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00009
Title: McLaughlin House erected 1878
Date: 1909
Inscription/Marks: Photo captioned "Built Oct. 16th 1878 by Major McLaughlin in command U.S. Soldiers laying out the Mail trail from Fort Totten to Grand Forks". Message reads "School starts Monday and we are going. Is Papa down there now. Glen G.E." Addressed to Garriford (?) Eastgate, Larimore, N.D.
Summary: A view of the McLaughlin House, built by soldiers when laying out the mail route between Fort Totten and Grand Forks, Dakota Territory. It is a log building, covered in plaster. A wooden building is visible behind it.
Red ID: PH_I_151108 Image ID: 91082 Image Notes: 00398-00009-back

Collection: 00398 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Alice and Clair Southam Photograph Collection
Date: 1883-circa 1960

Summary: Photographs of the Eastgate family and North Dakota cities including Devils Lake, Hankinson, Larimore, Mohall, Petersburg, Tolna, and Williston.

Collection Summary
Collection: 00398 - Alice and Clair Southam Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00009
Title: McLaughlin House erected 1878
Date: 1909
Inscription/Marks: Photo captioned "Built Oct. 16th 1878 by Major McLaughlin in command U.S. Soldiers laying out the Mail trail from Fort Totten to Grand Forks". Message reads "School starts Monday and we are going. Is Papa down there now. Glen G.E." Addressed to Garriford (?) Eastgate, Larimore, N.D.
Summary: A view of the McLaughlin House, built by soldiers when laying out the mail route between Fort Totten and Grand Forks, Dakota Territory. It is a log building, covered in plaster. A wooden building is visible behind it.
Red ID: PH_I_151108 Image ID: 101043 Image Notes: 00398-00009

Collection: 00398 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Alice and Clair Southam Photograph Collection
Date: 1883-circa 1960

Summary: Photographs of the Eastgate family and North Dakota cities including Devils Lake, Hankinson, Larimore, Mohall, Petersburg, Tolna, and Williston.

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