Fargo ski jump, latter 1930s


Photographer: Anderson, David, photographer.
Title: Fargo ski jump [graphic].
Imprint: [193-?]
Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
Part of: David Anderson Photograph Collection (Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo)
Description: Front view of Fargo's ski jump taken from the bottom of the Red River in winter with snow on the ground. There are people on both sides of the jump and on top of the river bank. A blurred man is walking on the river bottom and another blurred man is on skis on the side of the river bank below the jump.
Historical Note: The ski jump was built in 1935 on the banks of the Red River north of Fargo city limits by the Dovre Ski Club of Fargo, and the labor was provided by the Cass County Federal Emergency Relief Administration. This ski jump was torn down in 1942.
Note: Title supplied by cataloger.
Time Period: 1930-1939.
Location: Red River of the North
Location: Fargo (N.D.)
Subjects: Ski jumping--North Dakota--Fargo
  Snow--North--Dakota--Fargo
Norwegian Americans--North Dakota
Dovre Ski Club (Fargo, N.D.)
Corporate Name: Cass County (N.D.). Emergency Relief Administration.
Record No.: VM91-000161
Call No.: 2023.36.1
Negative No.: PN-012
Negative No.: 120mm-0030.1b
Videodisc No.: RS-1-14709
   
Credit Line: Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (2023.36.1)

 
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