Woman, child, and dog resting on a blanket, on a grass lawn. Appears 1950s.
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NDSU’s Downtown Expansion
I hadn’t realized this when I was going over NDSU’s PML Building expansion: the Y-shaped section of 9th St North directly behind the building will be adsorbed into the NDSU Downtown campus. The wedge of green houses six mailboxes (due to one-ways it allows drivers to drop their mail off out the car window), several […]
Click for full image Two men, one in a buggy, one standing. From a photo postcard, dated 23 February 1912.
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Prize Composition Studies, 1917.
Student-submitted photos, from The Rotary, February 1917.
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Rural Civil Defense, 1960.
Bombs have fallen. At least one has struck St Paul-Minneapolis. Another has exploded above the Great Lakes port of Duluth-Superior. Air force [sic] bases at Grand Forks, Rapid City and maybe Minot have been hit. So have other areas…Here, there is nothing to do now but wait. Radioactive fallout, if it isn’t already here, will […]
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Small-Town Country Road, 1930s.
Driving through the plains or Minnesota, North Dakota, or South Dakota, many small towns still look like this today: Grain elevator, church, a handful of houses, and then just more open farmland. It’s likely that buildings from the 1930s are still standing, although they’re far more run-down than they looked eighty years ago. This photo […]
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Apartment building, 1920s.
Click for full image Car parked in front of a large lodge. Appears 1920s.
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Changing the Tire, 1940s.
Click for entire image Changing a tire on a snowy mountain road. Appears 1940s.
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Children and Playground, 1930s.
Click for entire image A caretaker or teacher, with children. Appears 1930s, possibly taken in Texas or the south-central region of the U.S. More here.
“Many scientists claim that the “Ouija board” answers questions through personal magnetism. Spiritualists claim that invisible spirits guide its movements and an unknown power of superior intelligence rules our future,” claims this 1930 advertisement for the Ouija board. Unsure how to pronounce the pormanteau title? The article alternatively refers to it as the “wee gee” […]