Janet & Gerald McNaught (4)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Gerald McNaught photograph collection consists of 35 digital scans made by son Donald McNaught from original photographic prints in his possession. There is also one original photographic print of a threshing scene. The images document the McNaught family while they lived in the Mohall, N.D. area.
The finding aid file also includes biographical and genealogical data on the McNaught family including obituaries, articles, genealogical forms and pages from a biographical write-up that includes a number of the images found in this collection. The correspondence file includes two letters written by Gerald McNaught. The 1915 letter is four pages to his parents in which he talks about what he is doing on the farm, also about raising bees and school. The file also includes the reverse of the image (1915?) of hogs on the farm on which a maternal aunt in 1928 wrote a short reminiscence about Gerald and sister Janet growing up on the farm. Laser prints of all the digital scans were made and constitute the images in the remaining files. There is a file containing the information sheets, completed by Donald McNaught, for each of the scanned images.
The People Series contains formal portraits and snapshots of various members of the McNaught family, including Gerald and his sister Janet; their parents Roy and Amy McNaught; and even several of their grandparents, George and Hester McNaught. The images of Gerald cover from infancy to young adult. All are formal portraits except one. The Janet & Gerald McNaught file includes one photograph of her as a very young child, them with their pigeons, by a horse that is wearing a hat, and seated in a buggy hitched to two horses. The Roy and Amy McNaught file include them with son Roy in buggy on open prairie, and formal portraits of Roy and Amy, both as young adults and later in life. The George and Hester McNaught file contains a portrait of George as a young man, snapshot of him and wife as aged people.
The Topical Series includes farming scenes, clearly on their farm Loop Acres Ranch, (except for Ole Pierson’s threshing outfit, the only original photographic print in the collection), a threshing machine in operation, plowing and seeding. The Loop Acres images include the farm buildings, Gerald and Janet with hogs they were raising, and abandoned buildings. The Minot, N.D. file is a digital scan of four images on a page from a photograph album. They include an image of the Great Northern Railroad depot, passenger train at the depot, building on the state college campus, and a panoramic view of the city. In the center of the page is attached a circular label titled ‘Why Not Minot?’ The Mohall, N.D. file includes an elevated view of the town, a number of people standing on top of the water tower, political rally in Mohall with numerous automobiles and people on street, North Dakota gubernatorial candidate Lynn Frazier speaking before the crowd, new threshing machine on railroad car, large group of students on school steps, and snapshots of early teacher and girl from Carpio, N.D. Concluding the series are two social scenes, including boys swimming in the Souris River while girls are seated on river bank and group of adults at 1946 reunion seated around table outside to eat a meal.
Dates
- 1890-1924, 1934-1935, 1946, 1995
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Institute.
Extent
From the Collection: 35 Photographic Prints (39 photographs: digital, TIFF)
From the Collection: 1 Photographic Prints (1 photographic print: gelatin silver)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: McNaught, Gerald, 1901-1976. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu