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Collection Summary
Collection: D - D Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0101-00002
Title: Charles Shafer and John Goodall at Governor George F. Shafer's Inauguration (Bismarck, N.D.)
Date: 01/09/1929
Creator: Slorby Studio (Bismarck, N.D.)
Summary: Seated studio portrait of two men dressed in suit coats, vests, dress shirts and ties. Charles Shafer, photo left is wearing a dark suit with medium tone shirt and horizontal striped tie. His hairline has receded and he has a full white mustache framing his mouth. John Winfield Goodall, photo right is waring a dark suit with dark tone shirt and checkered tie. He has a pin of a cowboy on a horse on his left lapel and an elk's tooth securing a watch fob in his vest buttonhole. The painted backdrop has a mottled outdoor scene, out-of-focus in the background.
Red ID: PH_I_89137 Image ID: 43259 Image Notes: D0101-00002

Collection: D Digitized Images from Collection
Title: D Collection
Date: circa 1874-circa 1960

Summary: At some point in time the State Historical Society separated photographs into collections by size. The A collection consists of items 4 X 5” or less, the B collection consists of items 5 X 7” or less, the C collection consists of items 8 X 10” or less, the D collection consists of items 11 X 14” or less, and the E collection consists of items larger than 11 X 14”.

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