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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 07889
Title: Clara Hecker working dig at Huff Indian Village, Morton County (N.D.)
Date: 1938
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [back of postcard] 1952-07889 Huff site, 1938 Clara Hecker. POST CARD CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS EKC [Eastman Kodak Company] PLACE STAMP HERE [print envelope] 1952-07889 Huff Site, 1938 Clara Hecker (Mrs. Thad Hecker). [Obituary Bismarck Tribune 11-11-2009] Clara Raver, 87, Mandan, passed away on Nov. 8, 2009, at the Baptist Home, Bismarck. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mandan, with the Rev. Charles Heidt as celebrant. Burial will be in St. Martin Cemetery, Huff. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Weigel Funeral Home, Mandan, with a parish vigil at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue one hour prior to the service at the church on Thursday. Clara was born Aug. 12, 1922, to Carl and Mary (Kari) Benz in Zenith, just west of Dickinson. The family moved to a farm near Huff, where she and her sister, Anna, grew up. They were lifelong best friends. Clara married Thaddeus Hecker in 1941 and had a son, Steven. After Thaddeus’s death, she married Joseph L. Raver, and they had two children, Rose and Robert. Clara worked hard at various jobs throughout her life and was very close to the Lord. Living in Mandan, she was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. She moved to Liberty Heights Retirement Community and later to the Baptist Home in Bismarck. Survivors include her daughter, Rose; her son, Robert; her stepsister, Rose; seven grandchildren; two nephews; and two nieces. Clara was preceded in death by her parents; both of her husbands; her sister, Anna; and one son, Steven. Go to http://www.weigelfuneral.com">www.weigelfuneral.com to sign the online guest book.
Summary: Young woman squatting in staked and excavated area looking at bone and debris that was found in Huff Indian Village State Historic Site. In the background is the Missouri River and photo left is a wheelbarrow used to carry dirt out of the dig area.
Red ID: PH_I_39700 Image ID: 136052 Image Notes: 1952-07889

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 07889
Title: Clara Hecker working dig at Huff Indian Village, Morton County (N.D.)
Date: 1938
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [back of postcard] 1952-07889 Huff site, 1938 Clara Hecker. POST CARD CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS EKC [Eastman Kodak Company] PLACE STAMP HERE [print envelope] 1952-07889 Huff Site, 1938 Clara Hecker (Mrs. Thad Hecker). [Obituary Bismarck Tribune 11-11-2009] Clara Raver, 87, Mandan, passed away on Nov. 8, 2009, at the Baptist Home, Bismarck. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mandan, with the Rev. Charles Heidt as celebrant. Burial will be in St. Martin Cemetery, Huff. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Weigel Funeral Home, Mandan, with a parish vigil at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue one hour prior to the service at the church on Thursday. Clara was born Aug. 12, 1922, to Carl and Mary (Kari) Benz in Zenith, just west of Dickinson. The family moved to a farm near Huff, where she and her sister, Anna, grew up. They were lifelong best friends. Clara married Thaddeus Hecker in 1941 and had a son, Steven. After Thaddeus’s death, she married Joseph L. Raver, and they had two children, Rose and Robert. Clara worked hard at various jobs throughout her life and was very close to the Lord. Living in Mandan, she was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. She moved to Liberty Heights Retirement Community and later to the Baptist Home in Bismarck. Survivors include her daughter, Rose; her son, Robert; her stepsister, Rose; seven grandchildren; two nephews; and two nieces. Clara was preceded in death by her parents; both of her husbands; her sister, Anna; and one son, Steven. Go to http://www.weigelfuneral.com">www.weigelfuneral.com to sign the online guest book.
Summary: Young woman squatting in staked and excavated area looking at bone and debris that was found in Huff Indian Village State Historic Site. In the background is the Missouri River and photo left is a wheelbarrow used to carry dirt out of the dig area.
Red ID: PH_I_39700 Image ID: 136054 Image Notes: 1952-07889-back

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

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