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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00045
Title: Moore Consolidated School Ransom County (N.D.)
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [back in black ink] 00055-0045 FN9/r73 Moore School A Consolidated School in Ransom County (From Non-Partisan League collection) Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. Gift of Minnesota Historical Society, August 1960. [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] 2 Col [in circle] 3272/2 2. [back in pencil] B0331-01 [crossed through]
Summary: Published in the Nonpartisan Leader, this Arthur Benson Gilbert photograph shows the front and right side of a rural school building in Ransom County (N.D.). Two story clapboard building with full basement with a cut stone foundation. Double-hung windows are visible on both sides, some of the windows have storm windows installed. A stair with railings on both sides leads up to the double door entrance to the school. Hipped roof covered with asphalt tiles and a covered bell tower with railings on three sides. A chimney and water tank are visible on the back of the roof. In the backyard of the Moore Consolidated School is an outhouse on one end and a teacherage on the other end of the back portion of the schoolyard. An automobile is parked between the teacherage and the school. In the foreground is bare ground or grass. The print has been retouched with gouche to fill in the grass in the lower photo right. The building was burned sometime in July of 1933.
Red ID: PH_I_144592 Image ID: 105618 Image Notes: 00055-00045

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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