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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00021
Title: Farmer watches his swine in their pen
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [back in black ink] Col. 55-21. FN9/u72 Farm Scene in North Dakota. (From Non-Partisan League collection.) Donor: A. B. Gilbert Mound, Minnesota. [back in pencil-upside down] David Evans. [back in red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back-black ink stamp-upside down] FROM MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back in blue ink stamp] 346.
Summary: An unidentified farmer stands in the pen with his swine. Somewhere in North Dakota, this farmer's house is in the background, set off from the pig sty by a grove of trees. A bucket is up-ended on the wooden post of the pen near where the pigs are gathered. The low wooden pig sty or shed has many windows and doors. It is likely the breed of swine pictured are Duroc Jersey.
Red ID: PH_I_144568 Image ID: 105594 Image Notes: 00055-00021

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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