El Zagal Shrine (26)

File — Box: 1, Folder: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The Masonic Grand Lodge of North Dakota Photograph Collection reflects images acquired by the Grand Lodge Library over many years prior to its donation to the Institute. Thus the subjects of the images are very diverse. They have been organized into seven files based upon the subject of the images. The Badlands file includes both color postcards and photographic prints of Badland scenes and the Theodore Roosevelt cabin. It includes a postcard booklet containing 18 images, a map and short text, titled The Bad-Lands of North Dakota: The Wonderland of the West, published by Hafstrom Company of Belfield, N.D. The four images in the Bismarck, N.D. file includes a photograph collage of the „O‟Connor-Nestos Ticket;‟ the North Dakota Capitol on fire, Dec. 28, 1930; Gov. Lynn Frazier signing the women‟s suffrage bill, Jan. 23, 1917; and a cut-out copy of portrait of Arthur Millette. The El Zagal Shrine file, the largest in the collection with twenty-six images, including many of Shrine members wearing Shrine clothing and the fez. Some of the images apparently document a trip taken by Shrine members and include several of women, by a train station and the entrance to the Islam Temple in San Francisco, Calif. The Fargo, N.D. file includes of a group of men and women teachers on steps of building; a log house with partial siding with note on back that it was the first house in Fargo, built in 1870 by Harry Moore; two groups of men and women labeled with question mark as possible North Dakota Education Association; collage of view of the NDSU Little Country Theatre; “Mrs. Jessamine Burgum, first research worker in new library” (North Dakota State University, 1950); and two aerials of downtown Fargo and Moorhead. The General file (16 items) includes postcard of entrance to Chahinkapa Park and swimming pool, Wahpeton, N.D. ; the Geographic Center of North America cairn, Rugby, N.D.; Peace Garden entrance and park views; Walsh County Courthouse, Grafton, N.D.; three men standing by graves of two soldiers killed in Battle of Killdeer Mountain; school children in front of sod school house; memorial grave stone of Sarah Philena Barnard who died 1853; scene near Dickinson „native home of the Bullberry;‟ group at Walhalla, 1888, by grave of missionary martyrs site. The North Dakota Federation of Women‟s Clubs file consists of portraits of members including Gertrude Parker, Lisbon; Mrs. A. A. Thompson, Lisbon; Elita McArdle Minard, Fargo; Mrs. E. J. Danielson, Enderlin; Mrs. John Movius, Lidgerwood; Mrs. John Wagner, Lidgerwood; Helen Wallwork, Fargo; Blanche Jones; and Mrs. W. S. Lauder, Wahpeton; and Mrs. Oliver The Sakakawea Statue file includes various images of the statue in Bismarck; prototype renditions for statue; and group of men, women and Indians in front of statue.