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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00015
Title: Engineering Building at the Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.)
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [front] Engineering Building, Agricultural College. FARGO, N.D. [back-black ink stamp] Col. 55-15 FN9/u66. Engineering Building. Agricultural College. Fargo, North Dakota. (from Non-Partisan League collection). Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. [backk-red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY] [back-black ink stamp-upside down] RECEIVED FROM MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SCOIETY. [back in pencil] Engineering Building. [back-black print] THIS SIDE FOR MESSAGE. THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS. Post Cards of Quality. - The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Summary: The postcard image shows the front and right side of a large building surrounded by young trees. Sidewalks pass in front and to the entrance of the building. Bike racks line the side of the main sidewalk. The brick building is three stories high, with a cut-stone foundation, columns stand at entrance to building. Dormers line the top floor with formal pediments. Early in 1907, $65,000 was appropriated by the Fargo (N.D.) college for the construction of an engineering building. When completed, the structure was a three-story building measuring 80 feet by 90 feet, containing lecture rooms, laboratories and classrooms for work in subjects ranging from Mechanical Engineering to Freehand Drawing to blue printing to photography. Space was allocated for the Lyceum of Engineers (NDAC Catalog, 1910-1911, p. 18).
Red ID: PH_I_144561 Image ID: 105587 Image Notes: 00055-00015

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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