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Collection: 00149 - Minnesota Historical Society
Folder: 0005
Item: 00135
Title: Well's Block, Jamestown (D.T.)
Date: 1871-1889
Creator: Haynes, F. Jay--(Frank Jay),--1853-1921
Summary: View from across the street of a large brick building with people standing in front. There is a wagon on the right.||Jamestown was founded by the Northern Pacific Railroad as it pushed its way west in 1871. The town was incorporated in 1881. Jamestown is the seat of Stutsman County.
Red ID: PH_I_92854 Image ID: 46606 Image Notes: A2708-00001

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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