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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00060
Title: Entrance to Counting Room and Lobby Bank of North Dakota, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: Circa 1920
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [back in black ink] 00055-0060 A3223 [crossed through] FN9/467. Entrance Counting Room and Lobby, Bank of North Dakota. Entrance Counting Room lobby BK of ND. (From Non-Partisan League collection) Donor: A. B. Gilbert, Mound, Minnesota. [back in blue ink] Bank of North Dakota Interior. [back-red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back-black ink stamp] STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA. [back pencil. SS. 11. 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: Gilbert has taken a photograph of the lobby and counting room of the Bank of North Dakota, in Bismarck (N.D.) A man stands at a teller's window consulting with a woman and man. The lobby has a standing desk with fountain pen and ink well for completing forms and signing checks and an armed chair for waiting. Beyond the half-wall bank personnel are engaged in all different types of work including typing (women in back beyond column), counting (at second teller window), a women in middle back is entering information into ledger. The room has natural light from the windows and lamps to provide illumination in the back areas. Taken for use in the Nonpartisan Leader, the bank is a success for the NPL, in that it is a state-owned bank.
Red ID: PH_I_144607 Image ID: 105634 Image Notes: 00055-00060

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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