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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00041
Title: Bismarck National Bank, Main Avenue and 3rd Street, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [back in ink] Col 00055-0041. FN9/r65 Bismarck Bank Building Bismarck, North Dakota. Bismarck. Bismarck Bank. Baker building committee rooms for the legislature. (From Non-Partisan League collection) Northwest corner Main and 3rd. A3745 [crossed through] 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-black ink stamp] STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA. [back in pencil in circle] 2229/1. 2 col.
Summary: Bismarck National Bank Third Street and Main Avenue Bismarck (N.D.). This handsome three-story brick commercial building was built by J. M. Anderson in 1882, and also housed Missouri Valley Motor Company. Rooms in the building were used as committee rooms for the legislature. The three story brick building has stone lintels and façade with decorative flourishes. A man and woman are standing looking out the window on the second floor that housed the Bismarck Realty Company. The ground is covered with snow and the sidewalks have street lights and electric poles lining the edges. Taken by Gilbert sometime in the late 1910s.
Red ID: PH_I_144588 Image ID: 105614 Image Notes: 00055-00041

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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