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Fargo (N.D.) -- Photographs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Edith Fowler Slocum Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Photo SC 840-Photo Folio 93
Scope and Contents The Edith Fowler Slocum Photograph Collection consists of images from the time period of 1880 to about 1915. Many of the images are portraits of Edith from a child to an adult. There are also group photographs, some taken when Edith was in Seaforth, Ontario and others taken while she was a student at the North Dakota Agricultural College. The collection includes images of farm life in North Dakota and Ontario, as well as railroad construction scenes in Illinois, and photographs of the Boydstown...
Dates: 1880s-1915

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

Harry Jennings Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Photo Folio 78-Photo 2078
Abstract Jennings's photographic work consists primarily of social scenes, nature, personages and events that were taken for potential publication in the Fargo Forum newspaper. Among the more well-known persons represented are Mark Andrews, Jack Benny, William Guy, Robert Kennedy, William Langer, Arthur Link, Richard Nixon, Olav King of Norway and Bobby Vee. Some of the largest subject headings include accidents, automobiles, barns, Bonanzaville USA, children, farming, Forum Publishing Company, North...
Dates: 1950s-1979

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-]