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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00038
Title: Northern Pacific Railroad Depot at Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [back in black ink] /r61. Depot at Bismarck North Dakota -- Depot at Bismarck (from Non-Partisan League collection) Gift of Minnesota Historical Society August 1960. Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound Minnesota. [back-red ink stamp] Received by Museum Feb 25 1935. Minnesota Historical Society. [back in pencil] 00055-0038, formerly A737-4. [back-black ink stamp] State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Summary: The view is of the front, or north side, of the Northern Pacific Railroad depot, in Bismarck (N.D.). A man is walking in front of the building on the concrete sidewalk. A luggage cart sits in front of the waiting area. The Northern Pacific Depot’s Spanish mission-style architecture featured a center façade flanked by towers 13 feet square, originally domed and crowned by louvered cupolas with bellcast roofs and finials.In the foreground a fence encloses a garden area maintained by the local Womens Civic Club.
Red ID: PH_I_144585 Image ID: 105611 Image Notes: 00055-00038

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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