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Collection Summary
Collection: 00071 - Former Governors' Mansion Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00020
Title: Governor Fred G. Aandahl daughters Louise, Margaret, and Marilyn in the Old Governor's Mansion, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 1945-1951
Creator: Stockman, Louise Aandahl,--1927-2014
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0071-20.
Summary: A tinsel be-decked Christmas tree is behind the three daughters of Governor and Mrs. Fred Aandahl. The three happy young women are seated on the floor of the living room of the Old Governor's Mansion, which was their home from 1945 to 1951. In sweaters and skirts, as was the fashion of the time for young women, they are smiling and laughing in this domestic, informal photograph. They are not individually identified, but the daughters' names are Louise, Margaret, and Marilyn. Fred Aandahl, a Republican governor, was born in Barnes County (N.D.), and was an educator and farmer as well as a politician. Born in 1897, he died in Valley City in 1966. The photograph is from the family collections and obtained from Louise Aandahl Stockman.
Red ID: PH_I_22976 Image ID: 497649 Image Notes: 00071-00020-01

Collection: 00071 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Former Governors' Mansion Photograph Collection
Date: 1902-1975

Summary: Images of Former Governors' Mansion and the Governors and families who lived there.

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Collection Summary
Collection: 00071 - Former Governors' Mansion Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00020
Title: Governor Fred G. Aandahl daughters Louise, Margaret, and Marilyn in the Old Governor's Mansion, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 1945-1951
Creator: Stockman, Louise Aandahl,--1927-2014
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0071-20.
Summary: A tinsel be-decked Christmas tree is behind the three daughters of Governor and Mrs. Fred Aandahl. The three happy young women are seated on the floor of the living room of the Old Governor's Mansion, which was their home from 1945 to 1951. In sweaters and skirts, as was the fashion of the time for young women, they are smiling and laughing in this domestic, informal photograph. They are not individually identified, but the daughters' names are Louise, Margaret, and Marilyn. Fred Aandahl, a Republican governor, was born in Barnes County (N.D.), and was an educator and farmer as well as a politician. Born in 1897, he died in Valley City in 1966. The photograph is from the family collections and obtained from Louise Aandahl Stockman.
Red ID: PH_I_22976 Image ID: 497648 Image Notes: 00071-00020

Collection: 00071 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Former Governors' Mansion Photograph Collection
Date: 1902-1975

Summary: Images of Former Governors' Mansion and the Governors and families who lived there.

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