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North Dakota. Walhalla. Old trading post, built in 1843 – Historic Print

North Dakota. Walhalla. Old trading post, built in 1843, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
North Dakota. Walhalla. Old trading post, built in 1843, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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North Dakota. Walhalla. Old trading post, built in 1843

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This photograph shows an old trading post at Walhalla, in northeastern North Dakota near the Canadian border, with the building's log construction as its most visible feature. The caption card gives 1843 as the construction date, but the record notes that this figure is unverified, so it should be read as the catalogers' best report rather than a confirmed fact. Walhalla sat on the Pembina River in the Red River fur trade, where traders exchanged goods with Métis and Ojibwe hunters, and log posts like this one were the main places where that commerce took place.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 1134. Wittemann Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Trading posts; Log cabins.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,050 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146441

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