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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: SI-03
Item: 00006
Title: John B. Mulheren, Post baker at Fort Rice (N.D.)
Date: 1930
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: Written on reverse in ink: My Grandpa J. B. Mulhern, Post Baker at Fort Rice. Date Unknown. [Same photograph as 1952-01040, 1952-05897] [biography Ancestry ] Bakery Where John Bernard Mulhern worked in Toronto Canada. Grandpa John Bernard Mulhern worked for the Naismith bakery in Canada. Mungo Naismith was the owner. Yes, he is related to basketball inventor Naismith. Records of the early part of the century show that the bread was popular locally. City council archives show that Nesmith's Ltd. Was contracted to provide bread for Riverdale Zoo at 6 cents per pound for a year. Notable was Nasmith's use of machinery in the baking process which allowed for a more productive bakery at a time when many bakers were still using ancient techniques. In 1912, Nasmith Bakery was taken over by the now-famous Weston Bakery although the Nasmith name was still being used as late as 1926 when retailers such as Murray's Sandwich Shops were advertising in the Globe newspaper that they used "Nasmith's Bread exclusively!" Another boss of his was John Kerr. John Kerr was born in Carney Hill, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1819 and came to Canada in 1840. He owned a bakery business and was a member of
Summary: Three quarter length studio portrait of John Bernard Mulhern. He is dressed in a dark suit coat with a medium tone button-up work shirt and dark Stetson hat. He is seated in front of a painted backdrop portraying an Indian camp with tipis.
Red ID: PH_I_120757 Image ID: 54872 Image Notes: 00032-SI-03b-00006

Collection: 00032 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1977

Summary: Consists of copies of photographs belonging to people interviewed for the North Dakota Oral History Project. The Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

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