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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00047
Title: Plank bridge over the Sheyenne River by the Scoville School, Ransom County (N.D.)
Date: 1917-1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [front in pencil and grease pencil] Cropping lines for publication. [back in black ink] 00055-0047 FN9/r71 Bridge and Sheyenne River Ransom County North Dakota (From Non-Partisan League collection) Bridge and Sheyenne River at Scovil School Ransom County 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] B0331-04 [crossed through] 1 Col 3 [in circle] 3292/2.
Summary: Two men stand on a hanging bridge over the Sheyenne River by the Scoville School in Ransom County (N.D.). Their faces are obscured by tree foliage. The suspension bridge is made of wood planks, wire fencing and twisted wire cables. The bridge also has upright stabilizers made of tree limbs and wood planks. Overgrown trees allow only the smallest view of the Sheyenne River below the bridge. The print has crop lines for publication. Taken for use in the Nonpartisan Leader newspaper by Arthur Benson Gilbert around 1918.
Red ID: PH_I_144594 Image ID: 105620 Image Notes: 00055-00047

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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