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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00034
Title: Hotel McKenzie, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [front in red print] Hotel McKenzie, Bismarck, N. D. [back] Col. 55/34. FN9/u78. Hotel McKenzie, Bismarck North Dakota. 2 col cut-not over 4 inches wide. POST CARD. PLACE STAMP HERE. DOMESTIC ONE CENT. FOREIGN TWO CENTS. (From Non-Partisan League collection). Received by Museum Feb 25, 1935. Minnesota Historial Society. Gift 1959. Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. -BLACK AND WHITE-
Summary: This postcard image taken in the mid-1920s shows the front and east side of the Hotel McKenzie, owned by Ed Patterson, at a diagonal from across the street. A horse drawn carriage is parked next to the east sidewalk facing an automobile parked beyond it on the same side. A barbers pole stands on the corner of Main Avenue and Fifth Street, in Bismarck (N.D.), with the door to the inside of the hotel standing open. A man is walking from the corner next to the Womens' Civic Club garden to the sidewalk on the south side of the McKenzie. The image was printed in the Nonpartisan Leader Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1916 p9, with the caption: Dedicated to Power Behind the Throne. This is the McKenzie hotel at Bismarck, built and owned by E. G. Patterson, county commissioner, and named for Alexander McKenzie. Patterson is proud to be known as being
Red ID: PH_I_144581 Image ID: 105607 Image Notes: 00055-00034

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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