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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00005
Title: North Dakota State Justices of Supreme Court, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 1913-1916
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [back in black ink] Col. 55-05. FN9/p109. State Officials. (From Non-Partisan League collection). Donor A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. [back-red ink stamp] Received by Museum Feb 25 1935 Minnesota Historical Society. [back-black ink stamp] Received from Minnesota Historical Society.
Summary: The image shows the North Dakota Supreme Court Justices from 1913-1915. James Robinson photo left has been added to the photograph. His image was cut out of another photograph and added manually to this photograph with retouching done to disguise the addition. Richard Grace, Adolph M. Christianson, Luther Birdzell and Harrison Bronson are seated in high back chairs at the judge's bench with its decorative columns and panels in the front. A set of law books available for the justices to reference is on the desk. Dominating the high wall behind them is an niched entry wall built into the arched wall opening. The arched, elaborate infill is carved from the same wood as the bench, and is complete with decorative panels, columns, and flags, and bunting strung along the upper two sections.The door through which the Justices enter and leave the bench is to the back right, balanced by a clock on the back left.
Red ID: PH_I_144549 Image ID: 105573 Image Notes: 00055-00005

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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