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Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1069-00001
Title: Re-enactors at 1983 Chautauqua on North Dakota State Capitol Grounds
Date: 1983
Inscription/Marks: [back] Colour photograph of Re-enactors at 1983 Chautauqua. [caption] B1069 David Miller as James J. Hill, Larry Sprunk as Buffalo Bill Cody, Mary Louise Defender Wilson as Good Day, Ray Wheeler as William Jennings Bryan. 1983 Chautauqua on the grounds of the North Dakota State at Bismarck sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities through Humanities Groups in the Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska.
Summary: David Miller, Larry Sprunk (1940-1983), Mary Louise Wilson, and Ray Wheeler stand in front of the tent with an audience waiting. Each is wearing clothing appropriate to the historical character they are representing. David Miller is Jame J. Hill, railroad baron, Larry Sprunk is Buffalo Bill Cody, American scout, bison hunter, and showman, Mary Louise Defender Wilson is Good Day, her great grandmother, and Ray Wheeler as William Jennings Bryan, who stood three times as candidate for President of the United States for the populist wing of the Democratic Party. David Miller is wearing a hip-length wool suit jacket over light brown vest and pants with white shirt and bow tie. Larry Sprunk is wearing a long knee length dark coat over a shirt with red scarf tied at the collar and belted stripped pants tucked into riding boots. He is wearing a hat and holding a riding stick. Mary Louise Defender Wilson has a plaid dress with a leather and metal belt, necklace and earrings, purple scarf on her head and a embroidered purple fringed fancy shawl over her shoulders and white moccasins. Ray Wheeler is waring a long thigh length black suit jacket over matching vest and pants over a white shirt with bow tie.
Red ID: PH_I_90317 Image ID: 50272 Image Notes: B1069-00001

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