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| Title | In the good old days, when owning a pair of shoes was a great luxury |
| Date of Original | 190-? |
| Creator | Harrison, Job V., 1873-1955
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| Creator Role | Photographer
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| Description | A man with his six children and another man standing outside a sod house. The sod house shows one window and a doorway with a sod roof. There are three chairs, one is a rocking chair. A dog is on one chair and a girl on another. One boy has a book in his hand and all of the children are barefoot. |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | Pioneer Era
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Sod buildings
Children
Families
Rocking chairs
Dogs
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| Subject (LCSH) | Sod houses
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| Subject (Local) | Barefoot children
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| Location | Towner County (N.D.)
North Dakota
United States
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| Decade | 1900-1909
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| Item Number | 2028.46 |
| Format of Original | Gelatin silver prints
Color images
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| Dimensions of Original | 20 x 25 cm. |
| Transcription | "Fred Hultstrand copy of a picture made from a glass plate, Jan. 13, 1965, borrowed from Howard O. Berg, Devils Lake, N.Dak. Glass plate brought in by Morris D. Johnson, Bismarck, N.Dak." - Back of hand-colored print.
Early accounts indicate that whenever the traveling photographer came 'round, the sodbusters trotted out all of their possessions, in this case, three chairs. The children were always outfitted in their Sunday best" - Note with prints. |
| Notes | Title taken from label with hand-colored print.
Likely taken by Job V. Harrison near Rock Lake, Towner County, N.D.
Black and white version of image available. |
| Contributor | Hultstrand, Fred, 1888-1968
Berg, Howard O., 1916-1992
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| External Resource | Images featured on "Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920" part of American Memory, Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html |
| Repository Institution | North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies
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| Repository Collection | Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection 2028
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| Credit Line | Fred Hultstrand History In Pictures Collection, NDIRS-NDSU, Fargo (2028.46) |
| Language | eng
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| Digital ID | rs005365 |
| Original Source | Photograph |
