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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00054
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Government electric power plant in Williston (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00057
Date: 1916
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Red Trail Bridge near Medora (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00058
Date: 1928
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Train stuck in snow blockade, Edgeley (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00060
Date: Circa 1920
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Entrance to Counting Room and Lobby Bank of North Dakota, Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00062
Date: 6/30/1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Harvesting alfalfa from a field, Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00064
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Children in the Florence Crittenton Home, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00066
Date: 1920
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Nonpartisan League Election rally at Montevideo (Minn.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00068
Date: 1920
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Crowd listening to Nonpartisan League election campaign speaker, Montevideo (Minn.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00070
Date: 1920
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: People gathering around biplane during a Nonpartisan League election rally, Montevideo (Minn.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00072
Date: 1918
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Minnesota Governor David H. Evan's Hardware Store, Tracey (Minn.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00074
Date: 1917
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Andrew P. Hollis poses with boxes of motion picture paraphernalia
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00076
Date: 1917-1920
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Seven Loyal Boosters of the Nonpartisan League at Powers Lake (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00078
Date: 3/10/1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Soldier employees Of North Dakota pose together at the State Capitol, Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00001
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Sitting Bull and Custer Pageant Scene
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00003
Date: 8/12/1920
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Building Project No. 1 of the Non-Partisan League homebuilding campaign, Fargo (N.D. )
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00005
Date: 1913-1916
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: North Dakota State Justices of Supreme Court, Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00006
Date: 1883-1889
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Early home of Territorial Governor Nehemiah G. Ordway in Bismarck (D.T.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00008
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Hoof operation on pony at the North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00011
Date: 09/1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Farmers who posted bail for A. C.Townley, at Jackson County (Minn.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00013
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Family of Mr. W. H. Cawley of rural Pretty Rock, Grant County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00015
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Engineering Building at the Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00017
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Man in the doorway of a barn, with ducks in the yard (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00019
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Farmers cleaning rows in a North Dakota field
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00021
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Farmer watches his swine in their pen
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00023
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Plowed North Dakota field ready for seeding

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