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Collection: 2019-P-044 - Morris W. Johnson
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00003
Title: Cecil Atkinson holding beaver and trap, Mandan (N.D.)
Date: circa 1930
Summary: A man holds a trap in one hand, and displays beavers that he has trapped hanging from a tree. He displays a beaver tail in particular.||Beavers were trapped nearly to extinction by 1820. Beaver fur made an ideal felt for gentlemen’s hats. The beaver population recovered when fashionable men began to wear silk hats instead of beaver fur hats. Today, beaver can be found in most of North Dakota’s streams. They are still trapped, but the market does not demand as many beavers today as it did in 1800.
Red ID: PH_I_92385 Image ID: 172915 Image Notes: 2019-P-044-00003

Collection: 2019-P-044 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Morris W. Johnson
Date: 1898-circa 1929

Summary: Images of early 20th century threshing, breaking sod, and harvesting and scenes around Bowman, Hoople, and Mandan (N.D.)

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