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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00006
Title: Early home of Territorial Governor Nehemiah G. Ordway in Bismarck (D.T.)
Date: 1883-1889
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: back in black ink] Col. 55-06. FN9/r62. (From Non-Partisan League collection). Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. [back-red ink stamp] RECEIVED IN MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back-blue ink] Gift of Minnesota Historical Society August 1960 [back in pencil] 3 col. Bismarck. [Nonpartisan Leader Vol. 4, No. 12, March 22, 1917, p09]
Summary: Published in the Nonpartisan Leader Vol. 4, No. 12, March 22, 1917, p09, the image is of the Dakota Territory Governors' residence, Bismarck (D.T.). The small, wood-frame, wood-sided, gable-roofed house has a covered porch, turned columns and railings, wooden steps leading up to entrance from snow covered yard. An addition has been made to the one side of the single-story house, projecting from near the side bay window. Two chimneys are seen on the roof, one covering the front main area and the other in the back of the addition. A clothesline hangs between a tree in the foreground and the corner of the house addition. Baby clothes and diapers hang from the line. Another house can be seen immediately beside the Ordway home, and a two story house is in the background on the next street. Records show that Nehemiah G. Ordway boarded at the Sheridan House, but his brother, George L. Ordway, Auditor of Dakota Territory had a house on the northwest corner of Fifth Street and Avenue B in Bismarck (D.T.) in 1884. (Bismarck and Mandan Directory, 1884) Accompanying this article from the Nonpartisan Leader (Vol. 4, No. 12, March 22, 1917, p.09)
Red ID: PH_I_144550 Image ID: 105574 Image Notes: 00055-00006

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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