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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00050
Title: Brooklyn Consolidated School No. 4, near Wheelock (N.D.)
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [front] No 1 2904/4 Brooklyn Consolidated School. [front in white in image area] H. C. Miller. [back] 00055-0050. A3340 [crossed through] FN9/u58. Brooklyn Consolidated School Wheelock N. D. (From Non-Partisan League collection) Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. Dedicated October 23, 1913. Located 4 miles south of Wheelock N.D. Enrollment: 48 Percent of attendance for 1st 6 months 93. Teachers: 2. Children conveyed in busses owned by the district. Average salary of drivers: $60.00. Salary of Principal: $100. Salary of Primary: $70. Cottage furnished for principal rent free. C. L. Baekin. [back red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back black ink stamp] STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA. Original photograph 00055-0050. Images were originally donated to Minnesota Historical Society February 25 1935 by Arthur Benson Gilbert, editor of the Nonpartisan Leader. Images were used in the publication. The images were transferred to the State Historical Society of North Dakota in August 1960 and placed in the 00055 Collection. Some images were separated out for use and added to the A through E collections. The images have now been returned to the original collection.
Summary: In this photograph by H.C. Miller, the Brooklyn Consolidated school is recorded. It is a rather large one story clapboard building with full basement and several steps leading up to the centered entry doors. A four wheel buggy is parked on the side of the building with two men (one blurred) standing not far from the buggy. In the background photo right is a wagon with hitched team of horses who are munching on hay bales. In the background is the furnished rent-free cottage for the principal. The building has a two door entrance with glass transom panel. The two signs over the door have
Red ID: PH_I_144597 Image ID: 105623 Image Notes: 00055-00050

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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