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speculator = new Array("Land Speculator", "http://lcweb2.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe13/rbpe134/13401300/001dq.gif", 81, 60, "\"The Prairie is a great place to come and settle...\"","images/lspec_sm.gif","images/lspec_wht.gif")
prairie_mother = new Array("Prairie Mother", "http://memory.loc.gov/award/nbhips/letters/l220/16152.jpg", 81, 52,"\"Day to day life on the Prairie is hard in many ways. But there are lots of joys, too...\"","images/mother_sm.gif","images/mother_wht.gif")
journalist = new Array("Journalist", "images/article.gif", 81, 54,"\"Speculators <i>say</i> the life on the Prairie is great, but I'll show you what it is really like...\"","images/journ_sm.gif","images/journ_wht.gif")




var image7 = new Object()
image7.number = "7"
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image7.large = "images/slides/pp7.jpg"
image7.height = 462
image7.width = 600
image7.height_sm = 92
image7.width_sm = 120
image7.title = "A.A. Ambruster and family in front of their farmhouse. "
image7.location = "Cozad, Dawson County, Nebraska."
image7.date = "1904"
image7.creator = "Solomon D. Butcher, photographer."
image7.source = "The Northern Great Plains"
image7.context = ""
image7.audience = ""
image7.URL = "http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p13284))"





var image8 = new Object()
image8.number = "8"
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image8.large = "images/slides/pp8.jpg"
image8.height = 510
image8.width = 800
image8.height_sm = 102
image8.width_sm = 160
image8.title = "Interior of Elling Ohnstad sod house"
image8.location = "Fairdale, North Dakota."
image8.date = "June 24, 1923"
image8.creator = "Collection of Fred Hultstrand, North Dakota photographer"
image8.source = "The Northern Great Plains"
image8.context = "Interior of the Ohnstad sod house, with two curtained windows showing, and a patch-work quilt on a metal frame bed. There is a book (face down) and a mail-order catalog on a round table with a tablecloth. There are also books in and above (in the rafters) a window, and a calendar. There are six wooden chairs, a wooden floor, and three pictures on the wall. Elling Ohnstad was born in 1870 in Odalen, Norway and came with his father and siblings in 1882 to America where they settled in Walsh County, N.D."
image8.audience = "Unknown.  Photo was probably taken to document life on the prairie."
image8.URL = "http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfahult+b079))"

 	 



var image9 = new Object()
image9.number = "9"
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image9.small = "images/slides/pp9.gif"
image9.large = "images/slides/pp9.jpg"
image9.height = 483
image9.width = 800
image9.height_sm = 97
image9.width_sm = 160
image9.title = "The General store: you name it, we have it!"
image9.location = "near Milton, North Dakota."
image9.date = "1900"
image9.creator = "Job V. Harrison, an itinerant or travelling photographer"
image9.source = "The Northern Great Plains"
image9.context = "Men, women and children in a general store in Rock Lake, ND.  Two women are seated at table having coffee or tea. Other people standing, including some on top of chairs. Merchandise lines the walls."
image9.audience = "The owner of the store might have displayed the picture on the wall, for himself and customers.  Or he might have used it in an advertisement circular. "
image9.URL = "http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfahult+b377))"



	



var image10 = new Object()
image10.number = "10"
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image10.large = "images/slides/pp10.jpg"
image10.height = 462
image10.width = 600
image10.height_sm = 92
image10.width_sm = 120
image10.title = "Achesons and their daughter in the living room."
image10.location = "near Watertown, Nebraska."
image10.date = "1903"
image10.creator = "Solomon D. Butcher, NE photographer"
image10.source = "The Northern Great Plains"
image10.context = "In the living room of the Acheson farm house near Watertown, Nebraska.	Visible is an organ, a doll, portrait photographs, and lamps.  Butcher, the photographer, arranged with local farmers to take their picture for a photo history of Custer County, Nebraska.  He would journey for hours to reach the home of a family he wished to photograph, and often accepted food, lodging, and the stabling of his horses in exchange for a print. As he traveled, he supported himself with subscriptions and donations that various citizens made to the project, as well as by the sale of photographs."
image10.audience = "The Acheson family probably kept the picture as a portrait."
image10.URL = "http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p10779))"






var image11 = new Object()
image11.number = "11"
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image11.small = "images/slides/pp11.gif"
image11.large = "images/slides/pp11.jpg"
image11.height = 458
image11.width = 600
image11.height_sm = 92
image11.width_sm = 120
image11.title = "Butcher girls on the old homestead"
image11.location = ""
image11.date = "1904"
image11.creator = "Solomon D. Butcher, photographer in Custer County, NE"
image11.source = "The Northern Great Plains"
image11.context = "The photographer's nieces, on horseback.  The son of an immigrant, Butcher took up photography because he hated homesteading. \"I soon came to the conclusion,\" he said, \"that any man that would leave the luxuries of a boarding house, where they had hash every day, and a salary of $125 a month, to lay Nebraska sod for 75 cents a dayÉ was a fool.\"  He spent years making a photo history of Nebraska homesteading, including his own family's experience, because he knew it was disappearing."
image11.audience = "The photographer's family may have kept this as a memento."
image11.URL = "http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p13027))"






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image12.number = "12"
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image12.large = "images/slides/pp12.jpg"
image12.height = 640
image12.width = 1600
image12.height_sm = 64
image12.width_sm = 160
image12.title = "Pioneer town of Milton, North Dakota"
image12.location = "Milton, North Dakota"
image12.date = "c1888"
image12.creator = "Likely John McCarthy, Milton, ND photographer"
image12.source = "The Northern Great Plains"
image12.context = "Elevated view of town on flat prairie. Businesses, including lumber and coal yards, and houses visible.  Immigrants in search of free land poured into the Territory at the time of the Homestead Act, and the rapid growth of people, farming and building transformed the flat, rich land so that it was dotted with small farms, carefully planted trees, railroad lines, small towns and endless fields of grain."
image12.audience = "Townspeople or businesses may have bought copies of the picture."
image12.URL = "http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfahult+b477)"






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image13.number = "13"
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image13.small = "images/slides/pp13.gif"
image13.large = "images/slides/pp13.jpg"
image13.height = 593
image13.width = 800
image13.height_sm = 119
image13.width_sm = 160
image13.title = "Rural school near Osnabrock, North Dakota"
image13.location = "near Osnabrock, North Dakota"
image13.date = "c1900"
image13.creator = "Collection of Fred Hultstrand, North Dakota photographer"
image13.source = "The Northern Great Plains"
image13.context = "Interior of school with children of different ages lined up in front of classroom.  Teacher at left. Desks visible at bottom. U.S. flag, photographs and other items on front wall and blackboards.  Written on back of print: \"Teacher Miss Pearl Haight\". Plus last names of some children, from Parker, Wild, Sykes, Barry, Hurd, Haight and Baker families."
image13.audience = "The picture was probably bought by some of the children's families."
image13.URL = "http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfahult+b358))"




     



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image14.number = "14"
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image14.large = "images/slides/pp14.jpg"
image14.height = 636
image14.width = 806
image14.height_sm = 127
image14.width_sm = 161
image14.title = "Stack threshing near Park River, N.D."
image14.location = "near Park River, North Dakota."
image14.date = "c1900"
image14.creator = "Collection of Fred Hultstrand, North Dakota photographer"
image14.source = "The Northern Great Plains"
image14.context = "Workers of threshing scene posing for photographer. Horse drawn wagon backed up to the threshing machine with two men in wagon loading grain into sacks. Other men with pitch forks in pile of grain feeding it into the threshing machine. In distance are wagons and steam engine. In foreground two boys are operating a \"bucking pole\" drawn by horses, likely to remove straw under the threshing machine conveyor."
image14.audience = "The farmers themselves probably purchased pictures of their farm equipment Ð they appear to be proudly displaying their new technology."
image14.URL = "http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfahult+b309))"




   



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image15.number = "15"
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image15.small = "images/slides/pp15.gif"
image15.large = "images/slides/pp15.jpg"
image15.height = 617
image15.width = 800
image15.height_sm = 123
image15.width_sm = 160
image15.title = "A Funeral in pioneer days."
image15.location = "likely in North Dakota."
image15.date = "c1900"
image15.creator = "Collection of Fred Hultstrand, North Dakota photographer"
image15.source = "The Northern Great Plains"
image15.context = "Men, women and children outside a log cabin gathered around a small casket placed on a cloth covered bench.  Many children died in infancy. Location not given, likely in North Dakota."
image15.audience = "When children died very young, families often had pictures taken in order to remember them.  (Chances are they did not have a picture of the baby alive)."
image15.URL = "http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfahult+b234))"




   



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image16.number = "16"
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image16.large = "images/slides/pp16.jpg"
image16.height = 462
image16.width = 600
image16.height_sm = 92
image16.width_sm = 120
image16.title = "All alone in the hills, Custer County, NE"
image16.location = "Custer County, Nebraska."
image16.date = "1886"
image16.creator = "Solomon D. Butcher, NE photographer"
image16.source = "Prairie Settlement collection"
image16.context = "Sod building dug into the side of a hill, with a windmill, carts, wagons, and horses around.   Pioneer couple standing in front of house.   The next farm may have been miles away, over rough and rutted roads."
image16.audience = "Farmers paid photographer for portraits like these showing them with their land, their houses, their livestock and their equipment."
image16.URL = "http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p10389))"




























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image7.number = "7"
image7.original = "http://memory.loc.gov/award/ndfa/ndfapaza/021r.jpg"
image7.height = 487
image7.width = 800
image7.title = "F.A. Pazandak farm."
image7.location = ""
image7.date = "191?"
image7.creator = "Pazandak, F. A., 1883-1973, photographer."
image7.source = "Distant view of house, shed and other outbuildings. Newly planted trees visible."
image7.context = ""
image7.audience = ""


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image9.number = "9"
image9.original = "http://memory.loc.gov/award/ndfa/ndfahult/b300/b381r.jpg"
image9.height = 513
image9.width = 800
image9.title = "The Itinerant photographer displaying his wares."
image9.location = ""
image9.date = "190?"
image9.creator = "Likely by Job V. Harrison"
image9.source = "Man by horse-drawn buggy displaying photographs to woman. Displayed on ground, on buggy and on horse are mounted photographs. Behind is a tar-paper house. In back of buggy is an open wood chest with the initials \"J.V.H.\" on side."
image9.context = ""
image9.audience = ""



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image10.number = "10"
image10.original = "http://memory.loc.gov/award/ndfa/ndfahult/b300/b379r.jpg"
image10.height = 561
image10.width = 800
image10.title = "This is how picture making was done in the early 1900's"
image10.location = "Exact location unknown, likely in North Dakota."
image10.date = "190?"
image10.creator = ""
image10.source = "Man, likely photographer Job V. Harrison, working in an outdoor photograph studio, a tent covering a portion of the studio. Numerous photographs on display, as well as a stove, trunk (with \"Harrison\" printed on side), and a \"Photographs\" sign visible. In background are trees, setting possibly by a road."
image10.context = ""
image10.audience = ""
*/