John R. Hamlin photograph collection [graphic]. [ca. 1885-1896]

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John R. Hamlin photograph collection [graphic]. [ca. 1885-1896]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27423652

Amenia views include elevators, elevated view of town, and a gang plow scene on the Amenia & Sharon Land Co. very likely taken at the same time as the famous scene used in the U.S. stamp "Farming in the West." Casselton views include the Great Northern Railway coal chute, Porte restaurant, beer kegs on the depot platform, views of town, Chaffee-Miller Milling Co. elevators, H.F. Strehlow farm machinery. Farming scenes include gang plowing, farm laborers, shocked wheat field, and plowing on Dalrymple Farm no. 3. There is also a distant view of Wheatland, elevators at Everest, unidentified town, and two women in a buggy.

23 copy photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.

North Dakota State University Library

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North Dakota State University Library

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Hamlin, J. R. (John R.),

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Hamlin was born in Maine circa 1832. He came to the Casselton, N.D. area circa 1885 with his wife Polina, son John Jr. and his mother Lucy. He lived there until at least 1896; by 1900 the family had left the state. From the description of John R. Hamlin photograph collection [graphic]. [ca. 1885-1896] (North Dakota State University Library). WorldCat record id: 27423652 ...

Amenia and Sharon Land Company

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