St. Francis Social Club
Exploring the photographic history of life from across the Dakota Territory
(North + South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming) and a bit beyond.
"Established in 1899"
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Native American woman at her sewing machine “Inside an Indian Tepee” with other family members sitting around her on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana. Photograph taken ca. December 3, 1906.
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Sioux Convocation, South Dakota. Where the meetings were held. Photograph taken July 3, 1922.
(Source: lindquist.cul.columbia.edu)
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The Lakota language has lost one of its greatest supporters.
Albert White Hat, who was instrumental in teaching the endangered American Indian language to new generations for nearly four decades, died last week at a hospital in South Dakota, according to language preservationists and fellow members of his Rosebud Sioux Tribe. He was 74.
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A member of W.C. Alden’s outfit is pictured using a “pull-out” on the group’s automobile after getting stuck while crossing the Frenchmen River near the International Boundary between Saskatchewan, Canada and Montana, United States. Photograph taken on July 9, 1920.
(Source: libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov)
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View of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad station in Aberdeen, South Dakota with an exhibit building touting “Free Government Land.” Photograph taken ca. 1911.
(Source: loc.gov)
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Fire in downtown Edgeley, North Dakota, June 5, 1952.
(Source: edgeley.com)
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A group of men pictured having a drink around the dinner table aboard a steam ferry on the Missouri River near Chamberlain, South Dakota.
(Source: history.sd.gov)
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Homesteader's grandson offers personal view of North Dakota's great oil rush
In the early 1900s, as American homesteaders made their last big push for free federal land, more Western soil was claimed than during the previous 40 years of the Homestead Act.
By chance, some of that dirt happened to cover what has become one of the richest oil formations in the world, the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, which pumps more crude than any state but Texas.
a really good read about family.
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120th Anniversary of the Great Fargo Fire of 1893
About 3 PM on the afternoon of June 7, 1893, the worst fire in the history of Fargo began in downtown and spread from wood building to wood building, destroying city hall, the business district and the homes of most of Fargo’s 6,000 residents. The Fargo Forum in a special edition the day of the fire, reported that the fire began when someone threw ashes from the rear of the Little Gem Restaurant on Front Street and started a fire in the rear of Herzman’s Dry Goods Store at 512 Front Street.
Sources: Ghosts of North Dakota - Fargo History Project - Fargo History - NDSU
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