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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0015
Item: 00576
Title: People on Broadway Street for "Shopping Day" in Fargo (N.D.)
Date: 6/9/1940
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 75/576, "50", and "B.M. Holt-526-14 St. so. Fargo 'Shopping Day' 6/9/40-Class 'C'".
Summary: The crossing arms blocking the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks are down across the tracks as they pass through the busy street in downtown Fargo (N.D.). Men, women and children are in the street and on the sidewalks. Cars are parked in the wide center of Broadway on the block which is home to the businesses Buttreys, Luger Furniture, and the Alex Stern clothing store. A United States flag decorates a speakers platform which is placed in the center near the parked cars. Hundreds of people have turned out for an event called "Shopping Day" on June 9, 1940.
Red ID: PH_I_40257 Image ID: 177412 Image Notes: 00075-00576

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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