Title: Arthur Benson Gilbert
Dates: circa 1880s-1930
Collection Number: 00055
Quantity: 114 items
Abstract: Includes images of agriculture, the Nonpartisan League, and buildings. Photographs were taken in Bismarck, Brantford, Buffalo Spring, Esmond, Fargo, Hekton, McKenzie, Pretty Rock, Williston and Wyndmere (N.D.).
Provenance: The Arthur Benson Gilbert Photograph Collection was originally donated by Arthur Benson Gilbert (A. B. Gilbert), who was the editor for the Nonpartisan Leader, along with copies of the Leader to the Minnesota Historical Society on February 25, 1935. The Minnesota Historical Society kept the newspapers and images that were taken in Minnesota and the few images of A. B. Gilbert that were in the photo collection. The images that were identified as being taken in North Dakota were transferred to the State Historical Society of North Dakota in August of 1960. Other images were disbursed to the states of origin such as South Dakota and Montana.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
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author's heirs. Researchers should consult the 1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94-553, Title 17, U.S. Code and an archivist at this repository if clarification of copyright requirements is needed.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Arthur Benson Gilbert, Sr. was born November 27, 1877 in Yorktown, New York to Charles and Eleanor (Titus) Gilbert. His three siblings were Mabel F., Alexander T., and Doris Ophelia Gilbert. He had four years of college and married Helen Churchill Durgin on July 28, 1914 in Winchendon, Massachusetts. They had two children: Arthur Benson Gilbert, Jr. and Max D. Gilbert.
Gilbert was a teacher in Croton Lake, New York, worked for the University Extension Division, State of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, and was Editor of the Nonpartisan Leader.
He died September 4, 1967 in La Mesa, San Diego, California and was buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Sources:
Find-a-Grave Memorial #122772029
Social Security Death Index,
US Censuses: 1900-1940
World War I Draft Registration
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00055-00001 Sitting Bull and Custer pageant scene, North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00002 North Dakota Views, a newspaper mock-up page of the "Non-Partisan Leader" 8/12/1920
00055-00003 Building Project No. 1 of the Non-Partisan League homebuilding campaign, Fargo (N.D.) 8/12/1920
00055-00004 North Dakota State Penitentiary, Bismarck (N.D.) 2/22/1917
00055-00005 North Dakota State Justices of Supreme Court, Bismarck (N.D.) 1913-1916
00055-00006 Early home of Territorial Governor Nehemiah G. Ordway in Bismarck (D.T.) 1883-1889
00055-00007 North Dakota State Legislature's House State Affairs Committee working around a makeshift table, Bismarck (N.D.) 1919
00055-00008 Hoof operation on pony at the North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00009 Frazier School, north of Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00010 George A. Malone and John O'Brien, Labor Representatives of North Dakota ca. 1915
00055-00011 Farmers who posted bail for A. C. Townley, at Jackson County (Minn.) 9/1919
00055-00012 Nonpartisan League meeting at Buffalo Springs (N.D.) 1915-1921
00055-00013 Family of Mr. W. H. Cawley of rural Pretty Rock, Grant County (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00014 "Happy Corn Pickers" on the P. E. Knight homestead, Pretty Rock, Grant County (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00015 Engineering Building at the Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00016 Old North Dakota State Capitol and the Sakakawea Statue, Capitol Grounds, Bismarck (N.D.) 1910-1915
00055-00017 Man in the doorway of a barn, with ducks in the yard (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00018 Preparing a North Dakota farm field for seeding ca. 1915
00055-00019 Farmers cleaning rows in a North Dakota field ca. 1915
00055-00020 Farmer swaddled in a greatcoat watches over his dairy herd ca. 1915
00055-00021 Farmer watches his swine in their pen ca. 1915
00055-00022 Farmer in the farmyard with his horses and ducks ca. 1915
00055-00023 Plowed North Dakota field ready for seeding ca. 1915
00055-00024 Field of corn in North Dakota ca. 1915
00055-00025 North Dakota farmer and his herd of cattle ca. 1915
00055-00026 Family on farm poses as they feed chickens 1917-1918
00055-00027 Turning hogs into Liberty Bonds, a farm scene in North Dakota 1917-1918
00055-00028 Newly built bungalow in Mandan (N.D.) 1920
00055-00029 Group photograph of the Boy's Corn and Potato Club of Pulaski Township, Walsh County (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00030 A. J. Halverson farm's granary, Esmond (N.D.), overturned by cyclone 8/3/1916
00055-00031 "A Residence Street, Williston (N.D.)" 1910-1920 Bloom Brothers Company No. 7353 ca. 1915
00055-00032 I. P. Baker's durum wheat field, near Bismarck (N.D.) 8/28/1917
00055-00033 Paulson Land Company Farm, Wyndmere (N.D.) ca. 1925
00055-00034 Hotel McKenzie, Bismarck (N.D.) 1919
00055-00035 Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Anderson Farm, near Brantford (N.D.) ca. 1925
00055-00036 Lambs at North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.) 1917
00055-00037 M. J. O'Connor and the Capitol Street Car, Bismarck (N.D.) 3/23/1917
00055-00038 Northern Pacific Railroad Depot at Bismarck (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00039 Bismarck's City Auditorium 1917-1919
00055-00040 Hughes Electric Company building at 2nd Street and Broadway Avenue, Bismarck (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00041 Bismarck National Bank, Main Avenue and 3rd Street, Bismarck (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00042 Northern Great Plains Research Station's Seed and Store House, Mandan (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00043 U.S. Experiment Station in Mandan (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00044 Hanson Consolidated School Building, Ransom County (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00045 Moore Consolidated School Ransom County (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00046 Sidna Consolidated School and Teacherage, north of Milnor, Ransom County (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00047 Plank bridge over the Sheyenne River by the Scoville School, Ransom County (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00048 Governor Lynn J. Frazier's barn near Hoople (N.D.) 1917-1919
00055-00049 Teacher's cottage at the Sauter Consolidated School, Walsh County (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00050 Brooklyn Consolidated School No. 4, near Wheelock (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00051 Gardner Consolidated School, near Fargo (N.D.) 3/23/1914
00055-00052 Construction of Grassland Consolidated School, Grassland (N.D.) 1910-1920
00055-00053 Westlawn Public School, Williston (N.D.) 1915
00055-00054 Government electric power plant in Williston (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00055 Governor Lynn J. Frazier and family at home in Hoople (N.D.) 1917-1921
00055-00056 Sheep at North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.) 6/1917
00055-00057 Red Trail Bridge near Medora (N.D.) 1916
00055-00058 Train stuck in snow blockade, Edgeley (N.D.) 1928
00055-00059 North Dakota State Capitol Heating and Power Plant, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00060 Entrance to Counting Room and Lobby Bank of North Dakota, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1920
00055-00061 First house built by the Home Building Association Bismarck (N.D.) 1920
00055-00062 Harvesting alfalfa from a field, Bismarck (N.D.) 6/30/1915
00055-00063 Exterior of the Florence Crittenton Home, Fargo (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00064 Children in the Florence Crittenton Home, Fargo (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00065 Non-Partisan League Election rally during a campaign in Montevideo (Minn.) 1920
00055-00066 Nonpartisan League Election rally at Montevideo (Minn.) 1920
00055-00067 Nonpartisan League election speaker addresses rally from a biplane, Montevideo (Minn.) 1920
00055-00068 Crowd listening to Nonpartisan League election campaign speaker, Montevideo (Minn.) 1920
00055-00069 "Big Bird" arises from Montevideo (Minn.) and heads to another rally in Minneapolis (Minn.) 1920
00055-00070 People gathering around biplane during a Nonpartisan League election rally, Montevideo (Minn.) 1920
00055-00071 Biplane is ready for flight after Nonpartisan League election rally, Montevideo (Minn.) 1920
00055-00072 Minnesota Governor David H. Evan's Hardware Store, Tracey (Minn.) 1918
00055-00073 Arthur Henderson, Leader British Labour Party and Nobel Peace Prize winner ca. 1920
00055-00074 Andrew P. Hollis poses with boxes of motion picture paraphernalia, Fargo (N.D.) 1917
00055-00075 J. J. Osterhaus, Dairy Commissioner, and John N. Hagen, Agriculture and Labor Commissioner, Bismarck (N.D.) 1917-1921
00055-00076 Seven Loyal Boosters of the Nonpartisan League at Powers Lake (N.D.) 1917-1920
00055-00077 Home of D. S. Sheets, Antelope County (Neb.) ca. 1919
00055-00078 Soldier employees Of North Dakota pose together at the State Capitol, Bismarck (N.D.) 3/10/1919
00055-00079 Building Project No. 1 of six houses built by North Dakota State Home Building association in Fargo (N.D.) 8/12/1920
00055-00080 Frazier School, north of Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00081 Frazier School, north of Bismarck (N.D.) 1910-1920
00055-00082 Frazier School, north of Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1915
00055-00083 First house built by Home Building Association, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1935
00055-00084 State Hospital, Jamestown (N.D.) 1920
00055-00085 Railroad Labor Board circa 1919
00055-00086 Manager Davis of ICU circa 1919
00055-00087 Possibly power house, State Capitol Grounds, Bismarck (N.D.) 1919
00055-00088 Man standing on the front steps of a house 1919
00055-00089 Two men standing by railroad tracks and depot circa 1919
00055-00090 Nonpartisan League gathering in Minnesota 1918
00055-00091 Nonpartisan League gathering circa 1919
00055-00092 Check made out to Ole Furnseth 10/29/1919
00055-00093 Two story wood frame house with porches on 1st and 2nd stories ca. 1919
00055-00094 Nonpartisan League meetings ca. 1919
00055-00095 Mr. Frazier our Farmer Governor circa 1919
00055-00096 E. J. Young and J. C. Janke in a car circa 1919
00055-00097 Workmen's Compensation Bureau 11/1919
00055-00098 Workers Compensation Bureau office 1919
00055-00099 Preliminary Conference on coal strike, Bismarck (N.D.) 1919
00055-00100 Bank of North Dakota interior, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1920
00055-00101 View of lawn at State Tuberculosis Sanatarium, Dunseith (N.D.) circa 1935
00055-00102 Masonic Cottage, State Tuberculosis Sanatarium, Dunseith (N.D.) circa 1935
00055-00103 Refectory and Infirmary, State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Dunseith (N.D.) circa 1935
00055-00104 New Refectory Building, State Tuberculosis Sanatarium, Dunseith (N.D) circa 1935
00055-00105 Refectory, State Tuberculosis Sanatarium, Dunseith (N.D.) circa 1935
00055-00106 Refectory and Men's Cottage, State Tuberculosis Sanatarium, Dunseith (N.D.) circa 1935
00055-00107 Men's Cottage and Nurses' Cottage, State Tuberculosis Sanatarium, Dunseith (N.D.) circa 1935
00055-00108 Administration Building, State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Dunseith (N.D.) circa 1935
00055-00109 Missouri Valley Motor Company, Bismarck (N.D.) 1919
00055-00110 Bank of North Dakota, Bismarck (N.D.) XX
00055-00111 Delegates to Nonpartisan Convention, McLean County (N.D.) circa 1920
00055-00112 Senate in session, Bismarck (N.D.) 1917
00055-00113 House of Representatives in session, Bismarck (N.D.) 1917
00055-00114 State Penitentiary, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1917
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