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Box 1

 Container

Contains 31 Collections and/or Records:

Finding aid

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 0
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Amerada Petroleum Corporation (7)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Bismarck, N.D. (1)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Clean-up operation (3)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Drilling (12)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Drake Well, 1859 (1)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Townley oil well at Robinson, N.D., 1925; well at Glenfield, N.D. (3)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Halverson, Nils (1)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Hines, LeRoy H. (1)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Housing development (1)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This photograph collection documents the oil industry in western North Dakota in the early 1950s. Most of the photographs apparently were taken by staff of the Fargo Forum, likely for a special edition and series of articles devoted to the oil industry that were published in the newspaper. Most are 8x10 in. prints and have been organized topically. The images feature drilling, pipe laying, rig raising, "shooting" explosives, surveying, clean-up, as well as photographs of housing developments...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954