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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00014
Title: "Happy Corn Pickers" on the P. E. Knight homestead, Pretty Rock, Grant County (N.D.)
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [back in black ink] Col. 55-14. FN9/u86. Corn Pickers on Farm near Pretty Rock, North Dakota. Happy corn pickers on the P.E. Knight Homestead near Pretty Rock ND. (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-black ink stamp upside down] RECEIVED FROM MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back-in black print] POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE CYKO.
Summary: Group portrait of family with older woman, back row, an older man next to her, and two younger men in overalls and hats. A border collie dog sits between the two younger men. They are behind a boy in overalls, work shirt and soft hat, by another border collie In this front row, is also a man in work shirt and work pants with suspenders and kerchief tied around his neck, a young boy in sailor shirt and pants, and another young boy in overalls and work shirt. Behind the woman is the gable end of a small wood-frame, wood-sided shack with a simple double hung 2-over-2 light window. Taken in the Pretty Rock area of North Dakota, on the P. E. Knight homestead, by the Lawfer Studio of Leith.
Red ID: PH_I_144560 Image ID: 105586 Image Notes: 00055-00014

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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