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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: TO-08
Item: 00009
Date: XX
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Strand and family in front of their sod house, probably at Ox Creek, Rolette County (N.D.)
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 4796_00001
Date: XX
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Title: Chuckwagon, Killdeer (N.D.)
Collection: 2018P025 - G. Hubert Smith
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00046
Date: XX
Title: Squatter's family and dugout, Bad Lands
Collection: 11366 - 50 Years in the Saddle Club Collection
Folder: 0006.015
Item: 03969
Date: Undated
Title: "North Dak. Two-story sod house in the early days"
Collection: 11366 - 50 Years in the Saddle Club Collection
Folder: 0005.017
Item: 03308
Date: Undated
Title: Two-story sod house
Collection: 00433 - Agnes Fisher Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00019
Date: Undated
Title: Three men in a Ford automobile with three women and a child on a horse in front of a sod house
Collection: 00433 - Agnes Fisher Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00004
Date: Undated
Title: Sod House at Fayette, N.D.
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Collection: 00170 - Martin O. Helseth Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00011
Date: Undated
Creator: Helseth, Martin O.
Title: Sod house and barns
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Collection: 00169 - McIntosh County Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00002
Date: Circa 1930
Creator: Lilly, George W.,--1885-1940
Title: Homemade mud brick House
Collection: 10844 - Pierce County Tribune Records
Folder: 0009
Item: 00390_01
Date: circa 1915
Title: Family outside tent, sod house in ground
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0016
Item: 00839
Date: Circa 1910
Title: A sod house with massive extra support logs on the front, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00270 - Frances Densmore Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00096
Date: circa 1910
Title: Man standing next to a sod house
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Collection: 00270 - Frances Densmore Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00091
Date: circa 1910
Title: Sod House with stove pipe
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Collection: 00009 - Job V. Harrison Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00013
Date: circa 1910
Creator: Harrison, Job V. (Job Vincent),--1873-1955
Title: Sod house and barn, Devils Lake (N.D.)
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Collection: 00009 - Job V. Harrison Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00013
Date: circa 1910
Creator: Harrison, Job V. (Job Vincent),--1873-1955
Title: Sod house and barn, Devils Lake (N.D.)
Collection: 00409 - Sig Peterson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00030
Date: circa 1905
Title: Woman and child in front of sod house, Morton County, N.D.
Collection: 10685 - Nelson and LaMoure Family Papers
Folder: 0002.000
Item: 00006
Date: circa 1903
Title: Girl seated on roof of sod house with dog
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: DI-20
Item: 00003
Date: circa 1900
Title: Swan Anderson playing guitar in his sod house 4 miles W and 3 miles N of Oakes (N.D.)
Collection: 00433 - Agnes Fisher Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00022
Date: circa 1900
Title: German-Russian women and children in front of a sod house, Dunn County, N.D.
Collection: 00330 - North Dakota Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00001
Date: circa 1900
Title: Log and sod house
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0378_00001
Date: Circa 1900
Creator: DeGraff, William H.
Title: Kitchen inside sod house
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0378_00001
Date: Circa 1900
Creator: DeGraff, William H.
Title: Kitchen inside sod house
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0377_00001
Date: Circa 1900
Creator: DeGraff, William H.
Title: Sod house
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0368_00001
Date: Circa 1900
Title: Sod house showing vegetation on roof
Collection: 2019P045 - Gerhard W. Leerskov
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00011
Date: Circa 1898
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woods sod house, Bowbells (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: DI-20
Item: 00004
Date: circa 1895
Title: Swan and John Anderson on their farm near Oakes (N.D.)
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Collection: 00149 - Minnesota Historical Society
Folder: 0007
Item: 00208
Date: Circa 1890
Creator: Minnesota Historical Society.--Division of Archives and Manuscripts
Title: Otto A. Jacobson's claim shack near Hettinger (N.D.)
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Collection: 00149 - Minnesota Historical Society
Folder: 0007
Item: 00208
Date: Circa 1890
Creator: Minnesota Historical Society.--Division of Archives and Manuscripts
Title: Otto A. Jacobson's claim shack near Hettinger (N.D.)
Collection: 10844 - Pierce County Tribune Records
Folder: 0005
Item: 00237
Date: circa 1890
Title: Probably Mr. and Mrs. Julius Ingebretson outside homestead (sod house)
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Collection: 00169 - McIntosh County Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00006
Date: Circa 1890
Creator: Lilly, George W.,--1885-1940
Title: Richard A. Larimer
Collection: 00281 - Emmons County Historical Society Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00060
Date: circa 1890
Title: Butchering in front of sod house
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: GG-16
Item: 00009
Date: circa 1890
Creator: Alm, Hazel Jean,--1898-1986
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Judson Cawkins
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Collection: 00050 - Agnes Potter Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00001
Date: Circa 1880
Title: First Stage Bowman County (D.T.)
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0638_00001
Date: ca. 1910
Title: W. E. Klingler's sod house 1 1/2 miles W of Werner (N.D.)
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1550_00002
Date: ca. 1910
Creator: Risem Studio
Title: Sod house with glass windows and frame lean-to
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1550_00002
Date: ca. 1910
Creator: Risem Studio
Title: Sod house with glass windows and frame lean-to
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1550_00001
Date: ca. 1910
Creator: Risem Studio
Title: Sod house with glass windows and frame lean-to
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1550_00001
Date: ca. 1910
Creator: Risem Studio
Title: Sod house with glass windows and frame lean-to
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Collection: 00008 - Bowman County Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00036
Date: ca. 1905
Title: Sod house
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 3855_00001
Date: ca. 1905
Title: Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Benedict at their sod house, Temvik (N.D.)
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 3855_00001
Date: ca. 1905
Title: Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Benedict at their sod house, Temvik (N.D.)
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 3707_00001
Date: ca. 1900
Title: James B. Gayton sod house, Selfridge (N.D.)
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1049_00001
Date: ca. 1897
Creator: McCarthy, John
Title: John and Tilda Bakken's sod house, Milton (N.D.)
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1049_00001
Date: ca. 1897
Creator: McCarthy, John
Title: John and Tilda Bakken's sod house, Milton (N.D.)
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0271_00001
Date: ca. 1887
Title: Gjesvold Family sod house, Nome (D.T.)
Collection: 00205 - Mildred K. Jahde Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00003
Date: 7/1912
Creator: Keeling, Mae Emma
Title: Homesteaders, 20 miles from Stanley (N.D.)
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: ED-17
Item: 00004
Date: 2/4/1915
Creator: Larson, Mamie,--1884-1985
Title: Smith family in front of sod house
Collection: 2019P013 - Harris Forrest Seidel
Folder: 0001.000
Item: 00001
Date: 1935
Creator: Seidel, Lily Eleanor Burgstahler “Lillie” –1895-1996
Title: Two story sod house near Chaseley, Wells County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00028 - Arthur E. Thompson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00010
Date: 1924
Creator: DeGraff, William H.,--1852-1938
Title: Arthur E. Thompson standing next to log cabin
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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: LM-15
Item: 00063
Date: 1920-1930
Title: Nitschke family with sod house and hog S of Jud (N.D.)

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