Rowing a boat down the street during the 1897 flood, Fargo, N.D.


Title: Two women in a canoe in a residential neighborhood, Fargo, N.D. [graphic].
Imprint: [April 1897]
Medium: 1 copy photographic print : gelatin silver ; 13 x 21 cm.
Part of: Arneson Family Photograph Collection (Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo)
Description: Two women in warm coats seated in canoe. One woman holding the oars that are in the water. Flood waters inundating residential area, with foundation of house at 916 1st Ave. S. in water as well as other buildings and partial view of the Methodist Episcopal Church on extreme left. In the distance is the Cass County jail.
  Identify of women unknown.
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.
  Photographer unknown.
Time Period: 1890-1899.
Location: Fargo (N.D.)
Location: Red River of the North
Subjects: Floods -- North Dakota -- Fargo
  Boats -- North Dakota -- Fargo
  Women -- North Dakota -- Fargo
  Houses -- North Dakota -- Fargo
  Clothing & dress -- North Dakota -- Fargo
Address: Fargo (N.D.) -- Streets -- 1st Ave. -- South -- 916
Record No.: VM95-008604
Call No.: 2042.10.2
Negative No.: 5x7G-049
Videodisc No.: Not on disc
   
Credit Line: Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU Libraries, Fargo (2042.10.2)
 
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