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Collection Summary
Collection: 00273 - Old North Dakota State Capitol and Bismarck, N.D. Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00006
Title: Fourth Street looking south, Bismarck, N.D.
Date: 1906
Summary: Wide angle view of muddy Fourth Street, looking toward Hughes Electric Power Plant. Two women in white dresses holding a black umbrella drive on photo right a horse drawn buggy past the A. W. Lucas Company store. A large movie poster for "The Spoiler" Rex Beach's great realistic romance of Alaska. A Gripping, Sensational Photo-Drama produced by Colin Campbell. Filmed by William N. Selig of the Selig Polyscope Company. A woman in hat, long white jacket, white blouse and medium tone pencil skirt walks past the Western Union store while two men walk in the opposite direction. A window washer's tools lean against the building. Two women in mid-calf dresses and three small children stand on the corner next to the barber's pole with a man trying to decide how to cross the street. An automobile drives toward the Hughes Electric plant past the barricades. An automobile is parked next to the sidewalk photo left while a group of men walk by looking across the muddy street.
Red ID: PH_I_149816 Image ID: 99742 Image Notes: 00273-00006

Collection: 00273 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Old North Dakota State Capitol and Bismarck, N.D. Photograph Collection
Date: circa 1880-1917

Summary: Collection of glass plate negatives of original North Dakota State Capitol, Bismarck (N.D.), and related subjects.

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