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Collection Summary
Collection: 00441 - Mark J. Halvorson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00136
Title: U. I Beet Sugar Plant, Chinook (Mont.)
Date: 9/1939
Creator: Robbins-Tillquist Co. (Spokane, Wash.)
Inscription/Marks: [handwritten in white on front bottom of postcard] U. I Beet Sugar Plant, Chinook Mont. [Printed on back of post card] POST CARD CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS PLACE STAMP HERE [Handwritten in pencil on back] When I was in Montana Sep. 1939. [printed on left edge of postcard back] Published by Robbins-Tillquist Co., Spokane Wash.
Summary: Front view of U. I Beet Sugar Plant in Chinook (Mont.). It was owned by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company based in Utah. It was owned and controlled by the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its leaders.[1] It was notable for developing a valuable cash crop and processing facilities that was important to the economy of Utah and surrounding states. It was part of the Sugar Trust, and subject to antitrust investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Hardwick Committee.
Red ID: PH_I_197165 Image ID: 177614 Image Notes: 00441-00136

Collection: 00441 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Mark J. Halvorson Photograph Collection
Date: 1898-2018

Summary: Consists of Halvorson, Bischoff, and Schwann family photographs. Image subjects include portraits of family members, gardens, farming activities, winter, ice fishing, Norwegians, and Germans from Russia. There are several images of Mark J. Halvorson's work at the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

Collection Summary
Collection: 00441 - Mark J. Halvorson Photograph Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00136
Title: U. I Beet Sugar Plant, Chinook (Mont.)
Date: 9/1939
Creator: Robbins-Tillquist Co. (Spokane, Wash.)
Inscription/Marks: [handwritten in white on front bottom of postcard] U. I Beet Sugar Plant, Chinook Mont. [Printed on back of post card] POST CARD CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS PLACE STAMP HERE [Handwritten in pencil on back] When I was in Montana Sep. 1939. [printed on left edge of postcard back] Published by Robbins-Tillquist Co., Spokane Wash.
Summary: Front view of U. I Beet Sugar Plant in Chinook (Mont.). It was owned by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company based in Utah. It was owned and controlled by the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its leaders.[1] It was notable for developing a valuable cash crop and processing facilities that was important to the economy of Utah and surrounding states. It was part of the Sugar Trust, and subject to antitrust investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Hardwick Committee.
Red ID: PH_I_197165 Image ID: 177615 Image Notes: 00441-00136-back

Collection: 00441 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Mark J. Halvorson Photograph Collection
Date: 1898-2018

Summary: Consists of Halvorson, Bischoff, and Schwann family photographs. Image subjects include portraits of family members, gardens, farming activities, winter, ice fishing, Norwegians, and Germans from Russia. There are several images of Mark J. Halvorson's work at the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

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