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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00031
Title: "A Residence Street, Williston, N.D." Bloom Brothers Company No. 7353
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [front in red print] A Residence Street, Williston, N. D. [back] Col. 55-31. FN9/u80. Street, Williston, North Dakota. [back in green print] Bloom Bros. Co. Scenic America. POST CARD No. 7353. Bloom Bros. Co. Printed in Germany. CORRESPONDENCE HERE. ADDRESS HERE. Place the Stamp here. ONE CENT for United States and Island Possessions Cuba, Canada and Mexico. TWO CENTS for foreign. 106127. RECEIVED FROM MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back-red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM Feb 25 1935. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (From Non-Partisan League collection). Donor A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota.
Summary: This postcard image is of a residential street in Williston (N.D.) Taken between 1915 and 1921, the scene shows two story houses of different styles on large lots, fronted by a sidewalk parking area and curbs along an unpaved road. The homes are wood-framed, wood-sided structures, mostly with cross-gable roofs. One gambrel roof house is in mid-block. The houses have small trees planted in the front yard along with flowers and other landscaping. Boulevard trees have been placed near the sidewalk.
Red ID: PH_I_144578 Image ID: 105604 Image Notes: 00055-00031

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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