Arthur Rothstein South Dakota Photographs Arthur Rothstein made some of the most significant documentary photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America. These images were created during his years traveling throughout the nation on assignment for the US Farm Security Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
Read more →Arthur Rothstein North Dakota Photograph Arthur Rothstein made some of the most significant documentary photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America. These images were created during his years traveling throughout the nation on assignment for the US Farm Security Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
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Read more →The Sterns of Fargo Values Codes I – H – E – L Alexander Stern (1857-1934), was born in the Hessian town of Giessen, north of Frankfurt. He came to America from Germany in 1871 and arrived in Fargo in 1882 as the town’s first known
Read more →The Jewish Settlement of Painted Woods, North Dakota Before North Dakota was admitted to the Union in 1889, the Dakota Territory was home to a Jewish farming settlement called Painted Woods. Established in 1882 near the towns of Bismarck and Washburn, the agricultural colony was named for trees in
Read more →Joseph Nudelman Values Codes I – H – E – L Joseph Nudelman was born in 1844, in a small village outside of Odessa, Russia. His father was Mordechai Nudelman. Over a 40-year span – and with at least two wives – Mordechai had twelve children
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