North Dakota by auntietk
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Description
My family is mostly from North and South Dakota, and these photographs are from the family archives. I'd been thinking of putting this together, and PJ's wonderful historical shots inspired me to keep going with the project!
Top left: Raleigh, North Dakota, around 1910.
Top right: Climbing in the Three Buttes area. Can you imagine climbing all the way up there in one of those dresses? From their clothing, I would guess this was around 1910, as well.
Second left: Kids playing with a sheep on the farm.
Second right: Baseball game between Shields and Flasher, North Dakota in 1911.
Third left: Two of my great-great aunts being squired around on the river by an unknown gentleman. (I'm quite sure THEY knew him! Obviously they're quite proper.) This would be the sisters of my mother's mother's mother. (Got that?) The one on the right is Aunt Rogina, and I think the one on the left is Aunt Clara.
Third right: A gathering of some townspeople - about half of them are my family members. My grandmother is the little girl on the far right, the other little girl is my Aunt Violet, and their mother is the woman standing behind them in the white dress. That would be my great-grandmother, Ella, who I knew quite well. She didn't die until I was twenty.
Bottom left: A barn raising at a friend of the family's in Montana.
Bottom right: Haying. They all got together and everyone helped with everyone else's fields.
It's amazing to think that these shots were taken about 100 years ago, isn't it?
My niece and her husband went back to Raleigh last month and stopped in to see the relatives who are still running the farm. They had a great time, and are planning another trip!
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Full view for sure!

Comments (36)
Hermosooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo♥
Wonderful historic collage ...you inspire me to chase up old family photos
This is great fun, and a fascinating glimpse into your past/heritage! Beautifully presented, too!
Wow, very well presented! you know way more about your family than I know about mine...and we're all from Minnesota, so we're neighbors there too of a sort!
These are neat. History made at home. Wonder if Raleigh is any bigger today.
Neat trip into the past! : )
This is SO cool! I especially love the one of the sheep pulling the kids! Thanks for sharing these:)
That top right one is my favorite--this is wonderful!! The way things were.....
Awesome Historic shots well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These are really incredible shots and record so much history - not just family but life there at that time. It's easy to imagine what it was like back then. I have been back to many of the spots my ancestors owned and built only to find highrises and new structures now stand on the land.
outstanding collection and beautiful captures
I wish I had such fantastic old family shots as these they absolutely wonderful and I like this collage so much I hope you don't mind me taking this as a fave just for a record of real American history! I like the kids on the cart being pulled by, looks like a sheep! brilliant Tara!
Fabulous montage, Tara! SO interesting!
WOOOW!! How interesting. Wonderful pictures indeed. I love the one with the children and the cheep. Well, NOW you make me think about my beloved childhood books of Laure Ingalls Wilder. I still have all 10 books. I read them about 10 times or more. Tara, thank you for sharing these lovely photos.
Great collection of memories and family history. I especially like the children in their wagon towed by their sheep. Well done
What a treasure trove of wonderful shots dear Tara ! thanks for posting these !!!
priceless series!
Excellent and priceless images!
How wonderful-love the composition
Interesting presentation!
nice collage...
Excellent history and shots, and your post work is sublime my dear, love the one in the boat, look at thos wonderful hats :)
Top right and bottom right I want to be there, got to love those hats in the boat shot. Excellent slice of history Tara, and I'm so happy you knew your Great Grandmother, I never even knew my Grand Mothers and only one of my Grand Dads. Superb work my dear. Bravo!!!!!
Impressive presentation and idea, excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is outstanding looking.
cant beat old sepias
very interesting photo collage of these “old” pictures!
Excellent family collage! :)
Fabulous photos.
Wow this is cool, Tara May wonderful captures smile warm hug and love, Linda Kaye