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Arneson Family
Photograph Collection, 1880s-1950s
483 photographic prints (Photo 2042, Photo
Folio 76)
45 glass plate negatives : 5 x 7 in. (Neg. 5x7G, no.
18-62)
Biography
Harry R. Arneson,
Sr. began working for the W. J. Lane Company of Fargo
in 1904. He served as the company's president until 1972.
He was born on January 7, 1886 in Moorhead, Minnesota.
He attended North Dakota Agricultural College and Dakota
Business College before becoming associated with W. J.
Lane Co. Harry Arneson married Mable Torgerson on September
1, 1908. They had two sons, Harry Jr., and C.A. Mrs. Arneson
died in 1968 and Harry Arneson on May 9, 1973.
Son, Harry Arneson,
Jr., began working for the W. J. Lane Company after he
returned from military service in World War II. His career
was in appraisals, and apparently he established his own
company of Harry Arneson, Jr. and Associates around 1954.
This business worked out of the W. J. Lane Company office,
handling its appraisal work. In 1972, the firm became
the Arneson Company operated by Harry Arneson, Sr. and
his son, Harry, Jr. After Harry Arneson, Sr. died Harry
Arneson, Jr. appears to have continued his appraisal business
as well as the Arneson Company until his death on May
4, 1997.
Scope
and Content
The Arneson Family
Photograph Collection contains a rich variety of images
of the Fargo area as well as some images from Moorhead,
and other areas in North Dakota and Minnesota. Some were
accumulated by the W. J. Lane Co. and later by Harry R.
Arneson, Jr., as well as personally accumulated by the
Arneson family. The photographs have been organized into
two series: Fargo, and Topical. The original glass negatives
have been linked to photographic copies that are interfiled
in the appropriate file. Most of them are scenes in Fargo.
The Fargo,
N.D. Series is arranged topically and includes images
from the 1880s to the 1950s, although most are not dated
and few have written identification. Among the larger
files are the 1934 American Legion convention parade in
Fargo, aerial views, Broadway scenes, businesses and buildings,
churches, 1950s fires, houses, the W. J. Lane Co., and
parades.
The Topical
Series is arranged by subject or geographic area,
as appropriate. The major files include Moorhead, Minn.,
Detroit Lakes, Minn., the 1950 fire at Christine, N.D.,
threshing and harvesting, Jack Spratt Grocery at Breckenridge,
Minn., lake cabins, and homestead scenes. A unique image
is a baseball game at Dilworth, Minn. on July 5, 1909.
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