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Collection Summary
Collection: 00055 - Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00077
Title: Home of D. S. Sheets, Antelope County (Neb.)
Date: Circa 1919
Creator: Gilbert, Arthur Benson
Inscription/Marks: [front] Home of D. S. Sheets [back] 00055-0077 A7083 [crossed through] From Non-Partisan League Collection. Donor: A. B. Gilbert Mound, Minnesota [back-red ink stamp] RECEIVED BY MUSEUM FEB 25 1935 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [back in pencil] 25.
Summary: Published in Nonpartisan Leader, Volume 8, No 21, May 26 1919, page 04, this photograph is of the entrance and right side of the home of D. S. Sheets. This is the location at which his son, Royal V. Sheets, a Nonpartisan League candidate for Nebraska State Senator, was arrested with a warrant from the Antelope County Council of Defense. Royal Sheets won a court case of false arrest and imprisonment against the council. The large hip-roofed, two-story, clapboard-sided mid-western home has a corner entry covered by an open porch. The porch has a second-story veranda above it, with wooden railings.
Red ID: PH_I_144624 Image ID: 105651 Image Notes: 00055-00077

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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