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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00059
Title: North Dakota State Capitol Heating and Power Plant, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [front in pencil] crop marks. [back in black ink] 00055-0059 A4148 [crossed through] FN9/r63. Capitol Heating and Power Plant, Bismarck, North Dakota. Capitol Heating and Power Plant. (From Non-Partisan League collection) Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. [back in blue ink] Capitol, 1883-1930. [back-red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back in pencil] 2 col. 2330/1 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: This Gilbert photograph is of the North Dakota State Capitol Heating and Power Plant, in Bismarck (N.D.). The brick building is buried in snow with a pathway cleared about where the street car line is located. Near the entrance on photo left a cloud of snow is being blow up into the air. The brick stack towers above the building and in the background on steel legs is the water tank for the capitol. Power lines run behind the building and a few leafless trees and a bush are seen in the background. Taken around 1915.
Red ID: PH_I_144606 Image ID: 105633 Image Notes: 00055-00059

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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