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| Title | Emma Beske outside her homestead shack near Streeter, N.D. |
| Date of Original | 1906 |
| Description | Emma Beske standing in corner of homestead shack, with main building a tarpaper shack with an entry lean-to on front. Large mount of hay or earth along side of building. |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | People
Women
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Homesteading
Huts
Lean-tos
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| Subject (LCSH) | Tar paper shacks
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| Subject (Local) | Women homesteaders
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| Personal Name | Grimes, Emma Beske, 1875-1960
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| Location | Streeter (N.D.)
Stutsman County (N.D.)
North Dakota
United States
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| Decade | 1900-1909
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| Item Number | 2008.116.15; 2008.7.1; |
| Negative Number | 35mm 247.13a copy neg.; |
| Format of Original | Slides
Copy photographic prints
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| Dimensions of Original | 5 x 5 cm. |
| Transcription | "Emma Beske (Grimes) homesteaded 1904, picture taken 1906" - Handwritten on slide mount.
"Emma Beske expressed a love of adventure. Courtesy Catherine Haugen" - Caption with published image in Land in Her Own Name, p. 34. |
| Notes | Title supplied by staff.
Photographer unknown.
Copied from original gelatin silver print.
Completed questionnaire in Lindgren's research papers (292.1.19). |
| Biography/History | Emma Beske was born in 1875 in Wisconsin and came to homestead in 1904 from New Rome, Wisconsin to near Streeter, N.D. After proving up her land she moved to Fargo where she married John Grimes in 1910. They moved to his farm near Ryder, N.D. and raised two children. She died in 1960. |
| 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 (2008.116.15) |
| Language | eng
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| Digital ID | rs010020 |
| Original Source | Slide |
