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Esther Hansen, Jenny Surerus, Jim Vaagen, Hilmer Helgeson portrait
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| Title | Esther Hansen, Jenny Surerus, Jim Vaagen, Hilmer Helgeson portrait |
| Date of Original | 1917 |
| Description | Esther Hansen, Jenny Surerus, Jim Vaagen, and Hilmer Helgeson pose for a portrait. Esther and Jim are on the left, and Jenny and Hilmer on the right. |
| Ordering Information | http://history.nd.gov/archives/whatphotos.html |
| General Subject | People
Portraits
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Portrait photographs
Suits (Clothing)
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| Personal Name | Vaagen, Esther, 1896-1984
Surerus, Jenny
Vaagen, Jim, 1890-1968
Helgeson, Hilmer
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| Decade | 1910-1919
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| Item Number | 00032-DU-10-04 |
| Format of Original | Photographic prints
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| Notes | Photographer unknown.
Title created by staff. |
| Biography/History | Jim Vaagen was born in 1890 north of Taylor, N.D. The Vaagens were some of the first ranchers in Dunn County. Esther Hansen was born in New Lisbon, Wisc. in 1896. She moved to North Dakota in 1915 to teach school in Dunn County. Jim and Esther were married in Wisconsin in 1918. The Vaagens had three children, Ruth, Garth, and Wesley. Wesley was killed in an accidental shooting in 1941. Jim worked on his own land near Werner, and on other ranches and in the area. Esther wrote a column for the Killdeer Herald from 1927 until her death in 1984. Jim died in 1968. |
| Bibliographic Reference | Dauntless Dunn : stories of some of its early settlers, 1970. p. 363-365.
Dauntless Dunn, 1989 : a history of Dunn County, North Dakota. Dunn Center, N.D.: Dunn County Hist. Soc., 1989. p. 737. |
| Repository Institution | State Historical Society of North Dakota
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| Repository Collection | Oral History Project Photograph Collection 00032
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| Credit Line | State Historical Society of North Dakota (00032-DU-10-04) |
| Rights Management | Copyright status unknown. |
| Digital ID | sh00032DU1004 |
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