Photo Number 640

Here is a farmhouse, two story with a double decker porch.  More clothes on the line and a cute red barn..oh and a garden on both sides of the driveway.  Two chimneys..one must have been for the kitchen and the other for one of the main rooms.

Mrs. E. Nordstrom.

We had some Nordstroms ( Photo Number 610)  the other day, I emailed them and this was the reply from the little boy with the camera.

My uncle Elmer Nordstrom was married to a girl from the Erskine Minnesota area, her maiden name was Selma Loftgren, She had a sister that was married to a man by the name of Peterson. This could be a picture of the home farm, which I have never seen.

So the best we can hope for this photo is that one of the correct Nordstroms will come by some day and claim the photo.

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Photo Number 625

These are the last two photos in my farm photo album..until I scan in more.

These are not the greatest quality photos, but someone appreciated their animals enough to photograph them ..so I will show them to you!

 

Cows in a pasture.

Sheep in a field.

These were both photographs that I purchased at the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

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Photo Number 624

This is an interesting photo.  I don’t think they were pitching hay.   Maybe straw.  I have not seen a photo like this one before. 

Six men and six pitchforks and someone in the background.

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Photo Number 623

This is a photo from the Antique Shop in Park Rapids Minnesota.

Someone cut just a few cords of wood.

The barn in the background looks like it has one of those milk house additions off to the side and a Grainery is off to the right.  A milk house addition would have been built onto the barn so that you would have a reasonably clean place to separate milk and cream in a milk separator and a place to wash up all your separator parts.  We also kept the bucket and rags there that we used to wash up the cows teats with, and the teat medications and a container of Bag Balm sat in the window.  An old coffee can held the white papers that went into the milk strainer.  When we used milking machines all the milkers were washed in this room and set upside down to dry and the milker parts were all washed up morning and night.  ( If you cannot tell, I grew up on a farm, and I was in charge of the milk cows during the summer, first milking four cows by hand into a milk pail and then with automatic milking machines when the herd got larger.  I was also in charge of clean up.  I did not mind barn work..I liked it much better than house work.)

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Photo Number 622

This is another farm photo, this one is one of Johns 25 cent specials from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. 

Perhaps a sister and a brother in the 1920’s, maybe this was taken after church or some other important outing.

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Photo Number 619

A farmer with his horses and some of his cattle in 1922.


I would guess that this photo was taken in Minnesota or possibly North Dakota.  Moorhead Minnesota is right across the river from Fargo North Dakota.

It says:
Aslak ( Or Aslar) Nordbo first set of horses and cows when he started farming in 1922.

Jim  Fanny  Mut +Jeff

It looks to be early Spring or maybe late Fall.

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Update from Iggy:
Aslak Norbo (b. abt 1890 in Norway) is listed in the 1920 US census living in Steele County, North Dakota.

Remember the Midboe's fancy barn? (Photo 612)? Aslak was living with Tobias' father Ole! :)


Sophia Midboe (1890 - 1953) married Aslak Nordbo (1890 - 1959) on May 30, 1920.

Photo Number 616

This is a photo from 1967.  It must have been from the summer of 1967.

It is a combine, they are harvesting some kind of small grain.

I would be the kid in the truck looking at this scene waiting for my Mother to stop and motion me to come and load the truck.  At the end of the day, I would be hot and tired and itchy all over. I learned to drive a grain truck in the field when I was about ten years old.

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Photo Number 615

These are both photos from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

A woman and her turkeys.

I wonder if anyone feeds barnyard turkeys like this anymore?

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Photo Number 612

I always enjoy a beautiful barn.  I bet the owner was very proud of this beauty.

This is a Real Photo Postcard from 1914 to 1917.

This is the Tobias Midbo Barn.   There are piles of something(Straw?) or hills in the background.  I wonder where this photo was taken? 

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Update from Iggy:
I think this is Tobias O. Midboe (Aug, 1878-1961) and his wife Margit Sondreal (1891-Unknown) married June 23, 1915, living in Newburgh, Steele, North Dakota.

Update:
This photo went  Full Circle 34 on November 21, 2011.

Photo Number 611

This is a photo from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

 

Received from-

Jos. Brunelle

Emmett, Michigan

Thursday December 11 1958

I will guess that this is a Jersey Bull and it was a prize possession.

( That is only a guess..we used to have a Jersey milk cow..she was gentle and of smaller stature than some cows.)

I enjoyed looking around in this barnyard, a wagon with different wheels, trees in the background and wildflowers or flowering weeds in the pasture.  I will guess that is a feed bucket, and there was feed in it to help catch the bull for a photo.

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Photo Number 610

We will look at some Farm photos again, I have a number of them.

A Farm family or a family visiting relatives on a farm and stopping for a photo.  I am not sure what kind of building is behind them ..any reader input is welcome.  This looks like a 1950’s ( Corrected to 1942) photo to me.

The Harry Nordstrom Family Dassel Minn

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Update: This is from Earl the little boy with the camera. 


This is a photo of my dad and Earl 11 years, Jim 9 years Dean 7 years and Marlyn at 5 years. The picture was taken around 1942, about the time our mother passed away. It was taken in the barn door that my dad Harry and uncle Elmer farmed. the farm is south of Dassel Mn. on the east shore of Pigeon lake

Photo Number 281

This photo was marked Beresford, South Dakota our homestead 1930.   There are three buildings and a wagon.

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Update: Judy and Jingle Bob both identified the wagon as a sheep wagon.   Thanks ! 

Photo Number 280

Two young men showing off their ponies.  I see a chicken coop in the background on the left, but I am not sure what the building on the right is..it may be a grainery with an attached equipment shed/lean to. This photo was developed in a photo shop in Lincoln, Nebraska so I am guessing it is a farm in that area probably during the 1920-1930’s.

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Photo Number 279

A farmer with his cattle and his cattle dog. These might be beef cattle, they certainly are not Purebred Herefords.  I bet you all are relieved that I am finally past the grain harvest photos!   I have about another week of farm photos and then we will go onto something else.  Iggy commented that there has been very little in the backgrounds of these photos, that holds true for many of the prairie areas of Minnesota and North Dakota..there are only trees near the farmsteads.  This farm has a small hill where the horse is grazing…and a pond for a watering hole. 
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Photo Number 278

Today we have a gentleman who probably came out from town or stopped by after a doings to pose for this picture in the grain field.  I am not sure how much working in the field this man does.  Short sleeves and tie and all.

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Photo Number 277

Two farmers very proud of their shocks of grain.  This country looks like North Dakota or parts of the Red River Valley area of Minnesota.  These men are dressed for work in the fields, in most all of the photos that I have looked at men are wearing long sleeves and overalls.  My father and his brothers all dressed very similar to these men.  Tomorrow I do have a photo of a guy dressed differently standing in a field.  This photo could have been taken anywhere from the 1920’s to the 1950’s.
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Photo Number 276

August 1923.  This is the only harvest photo that is marked with a date.   I believe these men are carrying sheaves of grain and stacking them up into shocks that will eventually be loaded onto a wagon to await the threshing machine.    A sheave or sheaf of grain is a bundle that can be carried under one arm.
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Photo Number 275

These men may be part of a threshing crew, there are shocks of grain in the background. It looks to me like they used teams of horses, and both the men and the horses are taking a break.

My Mother used to cook and bake for days before the Threshing crew would show up. I remember the excitement of the crew pulling into the yard, it was going to be a busy day, with a huge meal at noon, with all kind of wonderful pies and cakes for desert.  As a child with a sweet tooth..I enjoyed those days.  In our area of Minnesota the neighbors would get together and thrash grain as a group going from farm to farm until it was all done.
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Photo Number 274

This is some kind of small grain field. It looks like there are shocks of grain.

This is a Threshing machine, or Thrashing machine.  The wagon bringing in sheaves of grain is horse drawn.
 Thresh = to toss about; thrash. To beat out grain from it's husk.
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Photo Number 273

Four guys on an old wooden wagon,  I wonder what they were doing..hauling rocks?  This does not look like Minnesota.  The trail looks just wide enough for the wagon.
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