Due to flood damage in the Main Library, these exhibits are currently unavailable. These historic photographs are rich in scenes of sod houses, farming, and pioneer and social life. Selections from the collection are now also available in a World Wide Web exhibit . The traditions of the blacksmith made iron grave crosses of the Black Sea Germans from Russia a beautiful folk art.
Photographs feature examples from Dakota cemeteries.
Carnegie Libraries in North Dakota Photographs featured include the libraries at Bismarck, Devils Lake, Dickinson, Grafton, Minot, and Valley City. Biographical sketches are included. Photographs by Frank Bennett Fiske Native American photographs by one of America's outstanding photographers. Fiske was a native of the Dakotas and grew up with many of the people who later became subjects for his camera on the reservation lands bordering the Missouri River at the Standing Rock Agency. These photographs show examples of the work of Fargo's finest architects between the years 1890-1940.