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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00042
Title: Northern Great Plains Research Station's Seed and Store House, Mandan (N.D.)
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [front in pencil in circle] 2 col - 4 7/8". [back in black ink] B0332-0001 FN9/r82 U.S. Experiment Station Mandan Seed and store house. (From Non-Partisan League collection) Seed and Store House. US Experiment Station Mandan ND. Donor: A.B. Gilbert, Mound Minnesota. Gift of Minnesota Historical Society. August 1960. [back-red ink stamp] RECEIVED MUSEUM FEB 25 1935. MINNESOTA HISTORCIAL SOCIETY. [back-black ink stamp] STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA. [back in pencil] 1171/3.
Summary: Taken in the late 1910s by Nonpartisan newspaperman, Arthur Benson Gilbert, the photograph is of the back of the Seed and Store House at the U.S. Experiment Station in Mandan (N.D.). Two story brick building with full walk out basement. Asphalt tiles cover the roof and a brick chimney is attached to the back. A greenhouse is adjacent to the back end of the building. In the background is another storage building and tree windbreak. The print has been marked for cropping for publication.
Red ID: PH_I_144589 Image ID: 105615 Image Notes: 00055-00042

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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