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Collection Summary
Collection: 00071 - Former Governors' Mansion Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00027
Title: Front section of the living room of the old Governor's Mansion, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 1907-1913
Inscription/Marks: On the back: "Gov's Mansion Marion Burke col.", 0071-27, the state stamp, "civcs" and "#2" in ink.
Summary: The front windows of the living room in the Old Governor's Mansion at 320 E. Avenue B, Bismarck (N.D.) have lace curtains filtering the light coming into the room. Typical late Victorian furnishing is in the room-spindle and spool chairs, a wooden rocker, a drop-front man's desk, and a mirror-backed knick-knack-holding chiffonier, placed in a high-visibility spot between the windows. Plates and pictures hang on the wallpapered walls. A heavy curtain is drawn back in the entry between the foyer and the living room. From the collection of Marian Burke, daughter of the 10th governor, John Burke. They occupied the house from 1907-1913.
Red ID: PH_I_144859 Image ID: 105893 Image Notes: 00071-00027

Collection: 00071 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Former Governors' Mansion Photograph Collection
Date: 1902-1975

Summary: Images of Former Governors' Mansion and the Governors and families who lived there.

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