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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00039
Title: Bismarck's City Auditorium
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [front in pencil] crop marks [back] 00055-0039 A2707 [crossed through] FN9/r70. Bismarck Auditorium. Municipal Theatre at Bismarck, N. D., # Erected by Public Appropriation-Best Attractions Find Appreciation from Large Audiences Here (From Non-Partisan League collection) Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. Gift of Minnesota Historical Society. [back-red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back-black ink stamp] STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA.
Summary: Gilbert's photograph is of the stone and brick building originally called the Bismarck Auditorium, but which eventually was renamed the Belle Mehus Auditorium. Entrance doors line the front and some exit door are available on the side to let out audiences directly on to the sidewalk. The image has been cut out to eliminate the background behind and around the building. Erected by Public Appropriation-Best Attractions find Appreciation from Large Audiences Here.
Red ID: PH_I_144586 Image ID: 105612 Image Notes: 00055-00039

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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