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Collection Summary
Collection: 00071 - Former Governors' Mansion Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00039_12
Title: Unidentified woman by the iris garden at the Old Governor's Mansion, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: ca 1955
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0071-39-12, "no date", "12", and "ca. 1950s".
Summary: A woman wearing a short-sleeved frock with a flower at the neck strikes a pose in the garden between the Old Governor's Mansion and the carriage house, Bismarck (N.D.). Undated other than the 1950s, her clothing supports the time frame. Her hair is pulled back, and she has earrings on her ears. Behind her is the south facing side of the carriage house. Flowers are planted along the wall and the woman stands in the space between those flowers and a bed of irises. The gardens at the mansion were the responsibility of prisoners from the state Penitentiary, who supplied much of the labor employed to run the property. It is unclear which Governor's family was in residence at this time, Aandahl left office in 1951, and was succeeded by Brunsdale from 1951-1957, and then Davis from 1957-1961.
Red ID: PH_I_167706 Image ID: 497674 Image Notes: 00071-00039-12

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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