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Collection Summary
Collection: 00149 - Minnesota Historical Society
Folder: 0006
Item: 00167
Title: Northern Pacific civil engineers' tents and 1st Headquarters Hotel under construction, Fargo (D.T.)
Date: 1872
Creator: Caswell & Davy (Duluth, Minn.)
Summary: View of a tent city with wooden hotel building in the background. A few men stand around the fronts of the tents to the left. The foreground is grass.||Fargo was founded as The Crossing in 1871 and was known unofficially as Tent City. The name changed first to Centralia, then to Fargo in 1872. The city, located on the Red River, is the seat of Cass County. This picture shows tents from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and is very early in the existance of the town. The wooden structure is the first Headquarters Hotel.
Red ID: PH_I_92610 Image ID: 171227 Image Notes: 00149-00167

Collection: 00149 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: Circa 1860 - Circa 1970

Summary: Scenes from around North Dakota, including images of farms of Norwegian and Danish immigrants in Sargent and Richland counties, the Gold Spike expedition for completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad 1883, and portraits and postcards.

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