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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00043
Title: U.S. Experiment Station in 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: This A. B. Gilbert photograph, taken in the late 1910s for the Nonpartisan Leader, is a view across a field assorted crops, of buildings at the U.S. Experiment Station in Mandan (N.D.). Four of the larger buildings at the station are visible beyond tree windbreak. They are two and three story structures of brick with either hip or gabled roofs. The print has been marked for cropping for publication.
Red ID: PH_I_144590 Image ID: 105616 Image Notes: 00055-00043

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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