Central business districts -- North Dakota -- Fargo -- Photographs.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Arneson Family Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2042-Photo Folio 76
Scope and Contents
The Arneson Family Photograph Collection contains a rich variety of images of the Fargo area as well as some images from Moorhead, and other areas in North Dakota and Minnesota. Some were accumulated by the W. J. Lane Co. and later by Harry R. Arneson, Jr., as well as personally accumulated by the Arneson family. The photographs have been organized into two series: Fargo, and Topical. The original glass negatives have been linked to photographic copies that are interfiled in the appropriate...
Dates:
1880s-1950s
Fargo, North Dakota Photograph Collection, 1870s-2001
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2006
Abstract
An extensive collection of images collected by John Caron documenting the history and development of Fargo, N.D., dating from the 1870s to a series of snapshots of buildings, especially downtown, taken in 2002. The collection best documents buildings and businesses, especially in the downtown area.
Dates:
1870s - 2001
Fargo Public Library Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2065
Scope and Contents
The Fargo Public Library Photograph Collection was semi-organized into folders when deposited at the Institute for Regional Studies. That basic arrangement was retained and refined. The collection is organized alphabetically by topic or, in several cases, geographic. To provide more detailed access, each photograph in the collection has been itemized in the Content section with a brief descriptive title. To search for topics or specific images the researcher should consult the Content section....
Dates:
1890s-1960s
Fargo Urban Renewal Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2068
Scope and Contents
The Fargo Urban Renewal Photograph Collection includes photographs and slides documenting the two Fargo urban renewal projects, Main Avenue Urban Renewal, and the Fourth Street Urban Renewal, as kept by Earl Stewart who headed the Fargo Urban Renewal Agency. The two other Fargo urban renewal photograph collections were accessioned with the corresponding records. This collection includes photographs of housing of the time, major buildings, demolition and businesses in the areas affected. The...
Dates:
1950s-1960s
Northern States Power Company Fargo District Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2063
Scope and Contents
The Northern States Power photographic collection, tells the history of electric power and natural gas production in the city of Fargo from the 1910s to the early 1980s. The photographs featured in this collection document how the two plants changed through time and technology.
The collection has been organized into six series: Gas plant, Steam plant, Subject files, Gas plant lawsuit, Personnel, and Events. Some of the images were removed from a display at the Fargo
NSP office. These...
Dates:
1913 - 1989
Oscar Forness Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2054
Abstract
The Oscar Forness Photograph Collection originally consisted of eight albums that contained detailed images of Fargo-Moorhead through the medium of photography. The albums were purchased by the donor at a Fargo antique store and then presented to the Institute. The photographer attempted to capture as many storefronts and streets as appeared during the 1960s and early 1970s.
Dates:
1960s-1970s
Ronald Olin Fargo, N.D. Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2001
Abstract
The Ronald Olin Postcard Collection comprises over 1,200 postcards documenting Fargo, N.D. The postcards in the collection date mainly from the early to mid-twentieth century, although there are also postcards from throughout the later part of the twentieth century. They hey-day of postcards was from 1907 to 1915. Most of the cards in the collection were commercially produced and represent well-known Fargo buildings, monuments, and views. A small number of the cards, though, document town life,...
Dates:
[190- - 200-]