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Collection Summary
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 3653-00001
Title: Early view of Williston (N.D.)
Date: circa 1898
Inscription/Marks: 2 story building is Mary Zahl Hotel and restaurant. Metzger store in cneter. Billy Snyder store at left. Brugger store 1st at corner
Summary: A few storefronts. There is no proper street, just an open space of dirt in the foreground. People stand outside the building on the right. The buildings are of crude wooden construction.||Williston was founded in 1887. The community became a city in 1904 and is the seat of Williams County. This is probably Main Street.
Red ID: PH_I_92480 Image ID: 47155 Image Notes: A3653-00001

Collection: A Digitized Images from Collection
Title: A Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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