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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Item: 07467
Title: Isaac P. Baker and Captain John Belk
Date: 1900-1920
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Summary: Three men are pictured on the deck of a river vessel. The man in the middle is identified as Isaac P. Baker and the man on the right as Captain John Belk. A third man is unidentified.||Isaac P. Baker was born at Weston, Mo., on July 20, 1855. He attended Central College at Fayette, Mo. Baker worked closely with his father, John Baker, in his management of the St. Paul and St. Louis Packet Company. He later worked as an agent for several ship lines. Around 1880 he went to work for T.C. Power as general agent for the Benton Transportation Company in Bismarck, N.D. By 1883 he co-owned several of the line's boats. As the steamboat traffic on the Missouri River went into decline, Baker diversified his business, becoming involved in banking, ranching, real estate, and grain elevators. Baker continued to operate boats on the Missouri River between Bismarck and Glendive until the 1920s. Baker was also involved in politics, serving a brief term as Bismarck's mayor and as a member of various commissions dealing with Missouri River issues. He died Jan. 28, 1938.Captain John Middleton Belk (1847-1928) was a pilot and captain on the Missouri and tributary rivers for 57 years. He made his first trip into Dakota territory in 1869 on the Steamer Amanda bring supplies to old Fort Rice. In 1873 he married Miss Elizabeth Ann Hayes of Yankton and in 1881 they, with their first son, came to Bismarck on the Steamer Helena
Red ID: PH_I_155393 Image ID: 113239 Image Notes: 1952-07467

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

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