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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00018
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Preparing a North Dakota farm field for seeding
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00020
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Farmer swaddled in a greatcoat watches over his dairy herd
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00022
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Farmer in the farmyard with his horses and ducks
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00024
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Field of corn in North Dakota
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00026
Date: 1917-1918
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Family on farm poses as they feed chickens
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00028
Date: 1920
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Newly built bungalow in Mandan (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00030
Date: 8/3/1916
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: A. J. Halverson farm's granary, Esmond (N.D.), overturned by cyclone
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00032
Date: 8/28/1917
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: I. P. Baker's durum wheat field, near Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00034
Date: 1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Hotel McKenzie, Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00036
Date: 1917
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Lambs at North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00038
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Northern Pacific Railroad Depot at Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00040
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Hughes Electric Company building at 2nd Street and Broadway Avenue, Bismarck (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00042
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Northern Great Plains Research Station's Seed and Store House, Mandan (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00044
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Hanson Consolidated School Building, Ransom County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00046
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Sidna Consolidated School and Teacherage, north of Milnor, Ransom County (N.D.)
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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00048
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Title: Governor Lynn J. Frazier's barn near Hoople (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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