Northern Pacific Railroad depot on the Dakota prairie (F. Jay Haynes, Fargo, D.T.)
F. Jay Haynes, official photographer, Northern Pacific Railroad · Northern Pacific Railroad, Dakota Territory
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Summary
An F. Jay Haynes photograph of a **Northern Pacific Railroad depot / shop building** standing alone on the open Dakota prairie, track running across the foreground. Haynes was the NP's official photographer; the "Fargo, D.T." imprint dates the print to the Dakota-Territory era (pre-1889). The Northern Pacific is the railroad that built through Jamestown (1872) and opened the James River valley to the settlement wave the family's Dakota figures rode in on. Infrastructure/visual context; no family persons.
Also mentioned
- F. Jay Haynes · photographer
Official photographer of the Northern Pacific Railroad; major documentarian of Dakota/Montana/Yellowstone. Not family.
Places
- Fargo, North Dakota (secondary)
- Dakota Territory / North Dakota (primary)
Themes
Tags
- context_setting
- book_chapter_material