Russell, R.P. (1)

File — Box: 7, Folder: 51

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The J. Roberts Haggart Family Photograph Collection contains professional portraits of family members as well as informal snapshots. Many of the snapshots are in albums. There is also one portrait of Ruth Roberts in an oval frame. The collection was organized into six series: Haggart Family; Samuel G. Roberts Family; Archer-Taisey Family; Portraits; Unidentified, and General. The Haggart Family Series includes the John E. Haggart family, the Hertsgaard family (Mrs. John E. Haggart's family), Gilbert Woods Haggart family (John E's son), as well as many photograph albums and individual photographs of the J.R. Haggart family (Gilbert's son), and J. Robert's sons, Gilbert & James Haggart. A photograph of the Roberts' home at 1115 S. 8th St. is also included. Featured in the Samuel G. Roberts Family Series are S.G. Roberts, his family, Ruth Roberts Haggart, and a photograph of the Roberts family grave marker. The Archer-Taisey Family Series contains albums and snapshots of the family in the early 1900s at Finley, N.D. and numerous photographs of Marjorie Archer Haggart (J. Robert's wife). In the Portraits Series there are photographs of Calamity Jane, Solomon G. Comstock, Chief Joseph, Dennis Hannifin, Alexander McKenzie, and Ed Patterson among others, as well as tintypes and unidentified adults and children. The Unidentified Photographs Series contains images of family scenes and Florida scenes, as well as photographs of various groups, and hunting. The General Photographs Series contains a photograph of Anderson and Bearson Used Cars on 2nd Ave. North in Fargo, the Rotary Club in 1935, the Masonic Shiloh Lodge #1 from June 1, 1893, a Tom Thumb wedding at Finley, N.D. in 1915, and several of the Morton County Fair in Mandan, N.D.