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| Title | Grace Jacobsen and friends at her homestead shack |
| Date of Original | 191- |
| Description | Group of women and men standing in front of wood house, with one woman aiming rifle to right. |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | People
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Women
Men
Rifles
Homesteading
Houses
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| Subject (Local) | Women homesteaders
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| Personal Name | Nelson, Grace Jacobsen, 1891-1984
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| Location | Grant County (N.D.)
North Dakota
United States
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| Decade | 1910-1919
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| Item Number | 2008.116.109 |
| Format of Original | Slides
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| Dimensions of Original | 5 x 5 cm. |
| Transcription | "Grace Jacobsen (Nelson), friends, homestead shack after hunting prairie chickens" - Handwritten on slide mount.
"Grace Jacobsen married one of the 'town bunch'. This group of friends met at Grace's shack to hunt, pick berries and have parties. - Caption with image in Land in Her Own Name, p. 180. |
| Notes | Title supplied by staff.
Photographer unknown.
Grace Jacobsen Nelson's completed questionnaire and additional biographical information in Lindgren's research papers, including photocopy of her 1912 diary, the year she homesteaded (Mss 292.1.106).
Ill. in.: Land in Her Own Name, p. 180.
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| Biography/History | Grace Jacobsen was born in 1891 in St. Paul, Minn. In 1903 her father homesteaded 13 miles south of Sims, N.D. and in 1912 Grace also homesteaded in Grant County, N.D. near her parents Nels Jacobsens. Grace married Lawrence Nelson. He was born in 1893 in Iowa and moved in 1907 near Almont, N.D. with his parents. |
| 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 (2008.116.109) |
| Rights Management | Copyright status unknown. |
| Language | eng
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| Digital ID | rs010114 |
| Original Source | Slide |
