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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00001
Title: Sitting Bull and Custer Pageant Scene
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: The front has the bottom right corner missing. [On the back in black ink] Col. 55-01. FN9/p81 A Pageant Scene at Hekton, North Dakota. (From Non-Partisan League collection) Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound Minn. [back-red ink stamp] Received by Museum Feb 25 1935 Minnesota Historical Society. [back-black ink stamp] Received from Minnesota Historical Society. [back-typed] Sitting Bull and Custer. [back in pencil] Aaron McCaffey Beede Hekton, N. D. No. 6. [in circle] 3023/3 [in circle] 4 col.
Summary: The photograph, taken on the grounds of North Dakota Agricultural College, shows the cast of a pageant written by Aaron McCaffey Beede. The group of student actors gathers around prop campfire built on the wooden outdoor stage. The thirteen actors are wearing costumes to portray Sitting Bull, other Indians and Custer and two Cavalry soldiers. In the background are trees and a large building. One of the actors may be Rev. Aaron McCaffey Beede, or this may be a play that he wrote. Published in Nonpartisan Leader Vol. 4, No. 24, June 14, 1917 p12.
Red ID: PH_I_144536 Image ID: 105560 Image Notes: 00055-00001

Collection: 00055 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1920

Summary: Images of agriculture, the Nonpartisan League, and buildings. Many of the images were used in the Nonpartisan Leader. Photographs were taken in Bismarck, Brantford, Buffalo Spring, Esmond, Fargo, Hekton, McKenzie, Pretty Rock, Williston and Wyndmere (N.D.).

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