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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00072
Title: Minnesota Governor David H. Evan's Hardware Store, Tracey (Minn.)
Date: 1918
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [back] 00055-0072 A7078-0001 [crossed through] (from Non-Partisan League collection) Donor: A. B. Gilbert. [back-blue ink stamp] 346 [back-red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [print envelope] A7078 NPL David Evans, Governor of Minnesota 1918. Tracy Minnesota.
Summary: The photograph, taken by A. B. Gilbert for use in the Nonpartisan Leader, is dated to 1918. In it is shown the business owned by the Minnesota governor, David Evans. The front of D. H. Evans Hardware store is covered with posters and displays of tools and rifles in windows. In the right window on the Implement side are advertisements for Swift's Fertilizers, and Plan??on Augers, Wheel Hoes and Cultivators. There is a decorative cornice just below name on this typical mid-western commercial building. The buildings in the image have dates of 1878 and 1903. The store was owned by David Evans, Governor of Minnesota in 1918. Store is located in Tracey, Lyons County, Minnesota.
Red ID: PH_I_144619 Image ID: 105646 Image Notes: 00055-00072

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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