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Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00054
Title: Government electric power plant in Williston (N.D.)
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [back in black ink] 00055-0054 A3214 [crossed through] FN9/u81. Williston. Electric Plant. Government electric plant at Williston. (From Non-Partisan League collection). Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. [back in pencil] supplies city light. 41 ems No. 1. 1320/1. [back-red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back-black ink stamp] STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA. 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 1959 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: A group of men stand off to the side of the public power-plant in Williston (N.D.) They appear to be inspecting something just down the hill from the power plant. The plant is on a hillside with four tall stacks, a conveyor belt for transporting coal to the generators and electric lines to carry the power to the city. In the foreground photo right is a coal tipple/loading dock. Taken for use in the newspaper The Nonpartisan Leader, around 1915.
Red ID: PH_I_144601 Image ID: 105627 Image Notes: 00055-00054

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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