"View on NPRR [Northern Pacific Railroad] looking across and [illegible] Little Missouri River
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56740
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Artist
content: Poland, John Scraggs, Lt Col
place: label: Place
content: Dakota Territory -- Little Missouri River
creator: label: Artist
content: Poland, John Scraggs, Lt Col
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Poland, John Scraggs, Lt Col
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Series of drawings, negative Numbers 56734-741, all appear to be scenes in the area around Fort Abraham Lincoln, which is about five miles from the present site of Bismark, North Dakota, on the west bank of the Missouri River. It was first built in 1872 to protect construction crews of the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1891 it was abandoned. Information from F. P. Prucha, Guide to the Military Posts of the United States, Milwaukee, 1964, page 55.

Artist: [Lt Col John Scraggs Poland, U. S. A.]
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Sep 6 1879
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "View on NPRR looking across and [illegible] Little Missouri [River] , Sept. 6 1879" written in ink by John S. Poland across bottom of watercolor; partially cut off. Signed with artist's monogram.