This is Nome, North Dakota, in Barnes County, about 20 miles southeast of Valley City. I was delivering books earlier this week and stopped to shoot Sheldon, North Dakota since I was in the area, and the highway took me right through Nome as I was on the way home, so I pulled-in and grabbed a few shots.
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Nome School in Barnes County — 1919 and 2005.
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Nome School: Then and Now
We found a couple of vintage Nome postcards at an antique store not too long ago, including a postcard of the now-abandoned Nome School in Barnes County which we snapped on a whim while passing through Nome in 2005.
We had to make some guesses on this card due to the handwriting — This postcard was sent on September 24th, 1919 from Laura Sigurdson to Miss Signe Bratt (who was a teacher herself in Northfield) in Lawton, North Dakota. It reads as follows:
Dear Signe,
Did you think I had forgotten you entirely? Oh no. Am teaching here at Nome, 1st grade, and like it fine. How are you anyway? Do you hear from [name illegible]? Where is she? Send me her address will you? Please write me [illegible] soon and tell me all about yourself. Yours forever, Laura Sigurdson.
You can see what this school looked like in 2005, here.
In the same box of postcards, we also found this unmailed, undated postcard of Farmers State Bank in Nome.
Some dapper looking gentlemen right there.
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