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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0036
Item: 01750
Title: Aerial view showing features of the Rock Haven Government boat docks on the Missouri River south of Mandan (N.D.)
Date: 1963
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-01750 replaces earlier collection number C 1529, the stamps of Ewald and the SHSND, and the name of the location.
Summary: This aerial view shows the historical archaeological features that still exist that show the site of the Rock Haven Government Boat Docks along the Missouri River seven miles northwest of the town of Mandan, ND. Originally a location for the refueling of steamboats with wood cleared from along the river and known as Bellow's Landing, the site was renamed Rock Haven when the Army Corps of Engineers took over the site in the 1870s. Extensive riverside improvements were then made, including the addition of dry-dock and boat repair facilities. Rock Haven supported the supply ships for the US Army's frontier forts, and saw use until around 1920. The remains and outlines of buildings are easily visible in the 1963 aerial image.
Red ID: PH_I_199451 Image ID: 179186 Image Notes: 00086-01750

Collection: 00086 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Date: 1875-Circa 1960

Summary: Consists of prints and some copy negatives of several photographers on the Fort Berthold Reservation, primarily Gilbert L. Wilson, and also including Frances Densmore, Frank Fiske, Fred Olson, Sumner Matteson, and several unidentified photographers. Ewald wrote identification of many photographs in his collection based upon suggestions from the people of Fort Berthold. Images include celebrations and gatherings, dances, sweat lodges, Little Missouri camps, cradles, portraits, Buffalo Bird Woman, Wolf Chief, Goodbird, Indian crafts and skills, artifacts, wood gathering, gardening, food processing and cooking, earth lodges, bullboats, travois, and Indian cowboys.

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