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| Title | Eunice Divet Glynn and sister Edith Divet by sod house on their homestead, Grant County, N.D. |
| Date of Original | 190-? |
| Description | Two women standing beside sod house with wood shingles and appears to be two-story structure. |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | Women
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Homesteading
Sod buildings
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| Subject (LCSH) | Sod houses
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| Subject (Local) | Women homesteaders
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| Personal Name | Glynn, Eunice Divet, 1874-1950
Divet, Edith, 1873-1948
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| Location | Grant County (N.D.)
North Dakota
United States
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| Decade | 1900-1909
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| Item Number | 2008.116.69 |
| Format of Original | Slides
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| Dimensions of Original | 5 x 5 cm. |
| Transcription | "Both sisters, Eunice Gynn and daughter Edith Divet, sod house, all lived in this house" - Handwritten on slide mount.
"Eunice Divet Glynn, a widow with a young daughter, and her sister, Edith Divet, had this eight-room sod house built. Courtesy Fanchon Lien" - Caption with image in Land in Her Own Name, p. 106. |
| Notes | Title supplied by staff.
Photographer unknown.
Copied from original gelatin silver print.
Completed questionnaire and additional biographical information in Lindgren's research papers (Mss 292.1.77 & Mss 292.1.50 for Edith Divet). |
| Biography/History | Eunice Divet was born in 1874 in Minnesota, later the family moved from Byron, Minn. to North Dakota near Wahpeton. She married a Mr. Glynn and they had one child Irene Mabel. In 1906 Eunice Glynn homesteaded in Grant County, N.D. together with her sister Edith Divet. She continued to live on her farm and also taught school. She died in South Dakota in 1950.
Edith Divet was born in 1873 in Minnesota and moved with her family from Byron, Minn. to near Wahpeton, N.D. She homesteaded in Grant County, N.D. near her sister Eunice. She continued to live on her farm until her death in 1948. She never married. |
| Repository Institution | North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies
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| Repository Collection | H. Elaine Lindgren Photograph Collection 2008
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| Collection Finding Aid | Consult: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/1059 |
| Credit Line | Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (2008.116.69) |
| Language | eng
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| Digital ID | rs010074 |
| Original Source | Slide |
