Collection SummaryThis digital collection consists of 1,568 images of photographic prints from the Henry B. Syverud Scrapbooks Photograph Collection, Lot 045 in the Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives. This collection consists of photographs, dated from about 1909-1965, removed from four scrapbooks documenting towns and rural farm life in Sheridan County in northeastern Montana and Divide and Williams counties in northwestern North Dakota, including the towns of Dagmar, Coalridge, Plentywood, Medicine Lake, and Reserve in Montana, as well as Grenora, North Dakota. Topics include homesteading, farming, coal mining, recreation, church and other social events, Farmers Union conventions, and the Sheridan County Pioneers Club. Henry B. Syverud, a homesteader and farmer near Dagmar, MT, produced the scrapbooks with photographs taken predominantly by him and his brother, Edgar Syverud, as well as other community members. The Syverud brothers were born and raised in Osnabrock, North Dakota, yet lived much of their adult lives in northeastern Montana. Henry homesteaded near Dagmar, while Edgar homesteaded near Sand Springs in Garfield County, MT, briefly in the 1910s. The collection substantially documents the life of two bachelors and their community on the Northern Plains of eastern Montana through the first half of the 20th century.
