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Title: John Beck
Dates: 1890-1935
Collection Number: 00025-B
Quantity: 50 items
Abstract: Images taken or collected by John Beck of Center (N.D.), coal, early farm scenes, Chas. Rose Grocery Store, Northern Pacific Railroad, Downtown Bismarck (N.D.), Fargo (N.D.), and a Fourth of July Celebration in Mandan (N.D).
Provenance: The collection was donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota by John Beck in April 1974. The image of the Northern Pacific Railway Depot in Mandan (N.D.) was copied on April 20, 1987 and added to the collection.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
John J. Beck was born to Dr. Francis O. and Marian Ann (Muehl) Beck of McClusky, North Dakota on January 1, 1941 in Bismarck, North Dakota. His family moved to Bismarck where his father operated his dental practice. John graduated from Cathedral of the Holy Spirit School in 1954, and St. Mary’s Central High School in 1958. He graduated with an Associate of Arts from Bismarck Junior College in 1961. Afterward he received training at the Dental Technical School of the University of California graduating in 1963. He studied art through the correspondence course, Famous Artist School of New York. He worked at Dakota National Bank in Bismarck, State Highway Department in Bismarck from 1960-1961, Arnold A. Wellu, Welu Dental Lab in Fargo from 1965-1969. He was the Museum Manager at the Great Plains Museum in Bismarck from 1969-1971, and a Museum Assistant at the State Historical Society of North Dakota from 1971 to 1974. He has lived in Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota most of his life. His hobbies are oil painting, farming and operating steam railroad trains and railroad equipment.
Source:
Ancestry.com
Newspapers.com
"A Creative Life. . .Paints, Trains, and Trees," by Barb Nechiporenko, Bismarck Art and Galleries Association, Vol.15:2
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00025-B-00001 First Celebration in Center (N.D.) 07/04/1906
00025-B-00002 Digging coal by hand near Hebron (N.D.) 1910
00025-B-00003 Early farm scene 1900
00025-B-00004 – 00005 Steam tractor with 6 bottom plows 1900
00025-B-00006 Interior Charles Rose Groceries, Fargo (N.D.) 1910
00025-B-00007 Interior Northern Pacific Freight Depot, Mandan (N.D.) 1910
00025-B-00008 Interior view Northern Pacific Freight Depot, Mandan (N.D.) 1910
00025-B-00009 Minnetonka steam locomotive #1 next to Northern Pacific Railway locomotive #2670 1941
00025-B-00010 Interior view P.C. Remington Drug Store, Bismarck (N.D.) 1900
00025-B-00011 Main Avenue between Third and Fourth Street, Bismarck (N.D.) 1930
00025-B-00012 First National Bank Building, Bismarck (N.D.) 1910
00025-B-00013 Steamboat Judith at wharf. Photo by Marine Photo Co., St. Louis (Mo.)
00025-B-00014 Steamboats Expansion, Ida, and Benton, Fort Yates (N.D.) 08/1911
00025-B-00015 Steamboats Benton, Frayne, and an unidentified boat yied up at Washburn (N.D.) 1890. Photographer: William H. DeGraff
00025-B-00016 Sylvan Hugelen, pilot from Leland ( Iowa) and his Autogyro (an early helicopter) competing in the Bismarck Air Show Bismarck (N.D.) 08/ 10/1935. Photographer: Nancy Hendrickson, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00017 Walking plow behind tractor, Mandan (N.D.) 1905. Photographer: Nancy Hendrickson, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00018 Municipal Swimming Pool opening, Bismarck (N.D.) 07/30/1921. Photographer: Nancy Hendrickson, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00019 - 00020 Building Missouri River revetments near the Liberty Memorial Bridge Bismarck (N.D.) 1920. Photographer: Nancy Hendrickson, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00021 Waldorf Hotel, Fargo (N.D.) 1925
00025-B-00022 Front Street looking west, Fargo (N.D.) 1910
00025-B-00023 Street scene birds eye view, Hebron (N.D.) 1910
00025-B-00024 Residential street, Dickinson (N.D.) 1915
00025-B-00025 Business district, Judson (N.D.) 1900
00025-B-00026 Henry Seethoff's General Store and Post Office, Judson, (N.D.) 1908
00025-B-00027 Residential district, New Salem (N.D.) 1905
00025-B-00028 Bismarck German Evangelical Hospital, Sixth Street and Rosser Avenue, Bismarck (N.D.) 1925
00025-B-00029 Burleigh County Court House, Bismarck (N.D.) 1925
00025-B-00030 St. Alexius Hospital, Bismarck (N.D.) 1925
00025-B-00031 Villard Street looking east, Dickinson (N.D.) 1905
00025-B-00032 Looking south on Main Street, Glen Ullin (N.D.) 1910
00025-B-00033 Kirkwood Hotel, Carrington (N.D.) 1910
00025-B-00034 Aerial view from Broadway Avenue and Sixth Street, Bismarck (N.D.) 1945
00025-B-00035 Capital Trolley on Main Avenue looking west from Fifth Street, Bismarck (N.D.) 1911
00025-B-00036 Flooded street in front of Buffalo Pitts Threshing Machine Co., Fargo (N.D.) 1881
00025-B-00037 Chevrolet auto parked in front of Chateau DeMores, Medora (N.D.) 1925. Photographer: Osborn, Dickinson (N.D.)
00025-B-00038 Nancy Hendrickson at her ranch on the Heart River southwest of Mandan (N.D.) 1925. Photographer: Nancy Hendrickson, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00039 Front Street, Fargo (N.D.) 1908. Publisher: McDonald Drug Co., Fargo (N.D.)
00025-B-00040 St. Mary's School, Bismarck (N.D.) 1898. Publisher: American Import Co., Minneapolis (Minn.)
00025-B-00041 Mandan pioneers celebrating 50th Anniversary of Mandan (N.D.) 1929. Photographer: Nancy Hendrickson, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00042 Mr. and Mrs. Edward (Alice Mae Hill) Mork wedding portrait, Mandan (N.D.) 1890. Photographer: Zalmon Gilbert, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00043 Unidentified baby, Mandan (N.D.) 1890. Photographer: Zalmon Gilbert, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00044 Joseph John Huff's children, Amos and Margaret Morain, Mandan (N.D.) 1908. Photographer: Zalmon Gilbert, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00045 Mr. and Mrs. John H. (Julia M. Lavalley) Hanson, Mandan (N.D.) 1890. Photographer: Zalmon Gilbert, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00046 Unidentified woman, Mandan (N.D.). Photographer: Zalmon Gilbert, Mandan (N.D.)
00025-B-00047 Indians receive testimonials of appreciation from President Coolidge, Mandan (N.D.) 07/04/1924. Photographer: B. L. Brigham, New Salem (N.D.)
00025-B-00048 Indians on horseback in Theodore Roosevelt Statue dedication parade, Mandan (N.D.) 07/02/1924
00025-B-00049 Attendees at Theodore Roosevelt Statue dedication, Mandan (N.D.) 07/02/1924
00025-B-00050 Second Northern Pacific Railway Depot Mandan (N.D.) 1909
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