Scope and Contents The Fargo Fourth Street Urban Renewal Agency Photograph Collection consists of 250 images used in the planning and execution phases of the project. The photographs were accessioned as part of the Fourth Street Urban Renewal records. The records were processed as Manuscript Collection 22. The photographs document the area affected by the project in the downtown residential and business district encompassed by 4th Street east to the Red River, located between 1st and 4th Avenues North. The...

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....

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...

Scope and Contents There are a total of forty-one photographs comprising five folders. Four of the photographs are of buildings; of the rest, a handful are portraits and the remainder are of people engaged in performances, parties and dinners, and various preparatory activities relating to each. Most of these are candid shots, though a few are posed. With the exception of some of the portraits, which were taken by New Garden Studio (Fargo, ND), all of the photographs appear to be taken by an amateur photographer....