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Collection: 00259 - Wally Owen Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00035
Title: Nelson Building, Belfield, N.D.
Date: circa 1915
Summary: A man and a boy carrying a Saturday Evening Post bag stand on the sidewalk in front of the Nelson Building in Belfield. A drugstore is visible on the main level, and a sign on the second floor of the building advertises the German-Scandinavian Land Co., the Dakota-Montana Branch of the Evangelical Lutheran Colonization Company. A car and several wagons are parked outside the building. A plaque at the top of the building reveals it was built in 1910.
Red ID: PH_I_52875 Image ID: 459612 Image Notes: 00259-00035

Collection: 00259 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Wally Owen Photograph Collection
Date: 1900-1940

Summary: Images of Wildrose (N.D.), Dickinson (N.D.), Medora (N.D.), and Peaceful Valley Ranch (N.D.).

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