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Title: Walter J. Brandt
Dates: 1906-1910
Collection Number: 2012-P-004
Quantity: 14 glass plate negatives and contact prints
Abstract: Images of Main Street in Rugby (N.D.) including some while a carnival was in town. Also includes images of Frank Brandt and his family.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired this collection from Mrs. Walter J. Brandt in March 1968.
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Biographical Sketch
From the Bismarck Tribune, Tuesday June 16, 1942
Frank L. Brandt, local German language newspaper publisher, died in a local hospital Monday evening after an illness of three weeks. He was one week short of being 77 years old.
Mr. Brandt, who was associated with his two sons in the Bismarck Printing Co., was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, June 22, 1865. He was educated in Germany and came to the United States as a young man, learning the printer’s trade in Grand Island, Neb.
On November 23, 1887, her married Sophia C. Rieck of Grand Island, who preceded him in death Jan. 12, 1941.
In 1889 Mr. Brandt and his family moved to Omaha, where he took a position with the newspaper of that city, later going to Yankton, S.D. and Rugby, N.D. to follow his profession. It was in Rugby that Der Staats Anzeiger was founded in 1906. In 1911 Mr. Brandt came to Bismarck to accept the position of secretary to the board of control of state institutions under the administration of John Burke and in 1912 the newspaper plant was moved from Rugby to Bismarck, the business calling for a better distribution point. Mr Brandt held the position of receiver of the United States land office under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson in 1914.
He leaves three children. They are Albert R. and Walter J. Brandt, who were associated in business with their father, and Mrs. John O. Lyngstad, all residing in Bismarck and all with him at the time of his death. He also leaves four grandchildren. Burial will be made at the Grand Island Cemetery beside the grave of his wife.
Photographs Inventory
2012-P-004-00001 Carnival on Main Street, Rugby (N.D.) 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00002 Firemen pulling a hose reel down Main Street, Rugby (N.D.) 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00003 Hotel Columbia, Rugby (N.D.) 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00004 Der Staats-Anzeiger, Pierce Co. Tribune, Crest Photo Studio building, Rugby (N.D.) 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00005 Firemen on the roof of the Pierce County Courthouse, Rugby (N.D.) 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00006 Main Street, Rugby (N.D.) 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00007 Main Street, Rugby (N.D.) 1906-1911
2012-P-004-00008 Frank L. Brandt reading the Staats-Anzeiger at his desk, Rugby (N.D.) 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00009 Frank L. Brandt family 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00010 Sophie (Mrs. Frank) Brandt and her two sons 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00011 Sophie (Mrs. Frank) Brandt and her two sons 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00012 Frank L. Brandt family 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00013 Frank L. Brandt reading the Staats-Anzeiger at his desk, Rugby (N.D.) 1906-1910
2012-P-004-00014 A man seated at a desk in the office of the Pierce County Tribune, Rugby (N.D.) 1912
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