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Title: Melvin R. Gilmore
Dates: 1915-1922
Collection Number: 2019-P-033
Quantity: 78 items
Abstract: Images taken around the state, of items in the State Historical Society Museum collection, an event at Fort Berthold in 1918 with Indian scouts, and natural specimens.
Provenance: The images were taken while Gilmore was employed with the State Historical Society and became part of the collection at that time.
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Biographical Sketch – Melvin R. Gilmore
Melvin R. Gilmore, son of John R. and Mary Louisa (Concannon) Gilmore, was born on March 11, 1868 in Valley, Nebraska. He received an AB from Cotner College in 1904; an MA in Botany from the University of Nebraska in 1909; and his Ph.D. in 1914, also from Nebraska. Gilmore was Professor of Biological Science at Cotner College from 1905-1911, and museum curator at the Nebraska State Historical Society from 1911-1916. From 1916-1923 he served curator at the Dakota State Historical Society of North Dakota. He next worked at the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, as a member of the scientific staff. He became Curator of Ethnology, Museum of Anthropology, at the University of Michigan in 1929. Dr. Gilmore, an adopted member of the Pawnee Indian tribe and authority on Plains Indians, wrote extensively in scientific periodicals on the material culture of Indians in the Missouri valley, intertribal commerce, ancient customs and ceremonies, and folklore. Gilmore died in Lincoln, Nebraska on July 25, 1940 after a long illness.
Source:
Nebraska State Historical Society website
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Inventory
2019-P-033-00001 Drum in Museum collection 1918
2019-P-033-00002 Rattle belonging to Moves Slowly 1918
2019-P-033-00003 Rattle 1918
2019-P-033-00004 Hammer, Hidatsa Stone Hammer Society 1918
2019-P-033-00005 Buffalo headdress 1918
2019-P-033-00006 Indian tobacco 8/1916
2019-P-033-00007 Tree and stump cut down by a beaver, Pembina River 1916-1917
2019-P-033-00008 White birch on side of bluff, Pembina River 1916-1917
2019-P-033-00009 Pembina River in Pembina Mountains (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00010 North of Pine Ridge (S.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00011 Badlands formation SE of Medora, SW of Sully Springs (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00012 Pembina River in Pembina Mountains (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00013 Upstream toward the Fish Trap, Pembina River, Pembina Mountains (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00014 Downstream from wagon bridge, Pembina River, Pembina Mountains near Fish Trap 1917
2019-P-033-00015 Pembina River in Pembina Mountains near Fish Trap 1917
2019-P-033-00016 Badlands region, Medora (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00017 Badlands region, Medora (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00018 Burning coal mine, Medora (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00019 Badlands, Medora (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00020 Badlands region, Medora (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00021 Beaver dam in Pembina River 1917
2019-P-033-00022 A man standing near a few of the trees near the Pembina River 1917
2019-P-033-00023 White birch and elms, Pembina Mountains 1917
2019-P-033-00024 Woods covering Pembina Valley and hills 1917
2019-P-033-00025 Trees in Pembina hills 1917
2019-P-033-00026 View up a ravine, Pembina hills 1917
2019-P-033-00027 Pembina River 1917
2019-P-033-00028 Typical growth in a wooded area of the Pembina hills 1917
2019-P-033-00029 Pembina River W of Walhalla (N.D.) in the vicinity of Fish Trap 1917
2019-P-033-00030 Looking NNW in the Pembina Mountains E of Fish Trap 08/1917
2019-P-033-00031 Pembina River and Mountains (N.D.) ca. 1915
2019-P-033-00032 Sand slide on Pembina River, Walhalla (N.D.) 1916
2019-P-033-00033 Shocks of grain in field, Morton County (N.D.) 1915-1920
2019-P-033-00034 Sitting Bull's grave, Fort Yates (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00035 Robert F. Flint ca. 1915
2019-P-033-00036 Hotel Northwest hotel, Nonpartisan League headquarters 1917-1918
2019-P-033-00037 Governor Louis B. Hanna in his office Bismarck (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00038 Hidatsa and Arikara Indian scouts, Fort Berthold Reservation (N.D.) 07/04/1918
2019-P-033-00039 Melvin Gilmore greeting White Horse, Fort Berthold Reservation (N.D.) 07/04/1918
2019-P-033-00040 Camp Frazier, Bismarck (N.D) 1917
2019-P-033-00041 A Northern Pacific train crossing the bridge from Camp Frazier, Bismarck (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00042 State Historical Society Indian exhibit at North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.) 12/05/1922-12/06/1922
2019-P-033-00043 State Historical Society Indian exhibit at North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo (N.D.) 12/05/1922-12/06/1922
2019-P-033-00044 A group of Arikara scouts at Fort Berthold (N.D.) 07/04/1918
2019-P-033-00045 Hidatsa Indian scouts, Elbowoods (N.D.) 07/04/1918
2019-P-033-00046 Mandan corn baskets from Fort Berthold 02/23/1915
2019-P-033-00047 Bismarck Evangelical Hospital, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1918
2019-P-033-00048 White Eagle (Letekats Taka) and Melvin Gilmore, Elbowoods (N.D.) 07/04/1918
2019-P-033-00049 Blazing Star (Liatris Spicata) ca. 1920
2019-P-033-00050 Farm, Morton County (N.D.) ca. 1920
2019-P-033-00051 Burleigh County draftees prior to entrainment, Bismarck (N.D.) 03/29/1918
2019-P-033-00052 – 00053 Aaron McGaffey Beede pointing to the Standing Rock at Fort Yates (N.D.) 1917
2019-P-033-00054 Melvin Gilmore in cache pit, Elbowoods (N.D.) 08/22/1916
2019-P-033-00055 – 00060 Missouri River flood 04/08/1917
2019-P-033-00061 – 00065 Lexington Day parade, Bismarck (N.D.) 04/19/1917
2019-P-033-00066 Clay Red Flour corn identified by George Will 06/1955 ca. 1920
2019-P-033-00067 Yellow Flour Corn identified by George Will 06/1955 ca. 1920
2019-P-033-00068 Assiniboine variety of corn identified by George Will 06/1955 ca. 1920
2019-P-033-00069 Governor Lynn J. Frazier signing Women's Suffrage bill, Bismarck (N.D.) 01/23/1917
2019-P-033-00070 NPL Headquarters, Hotel Northwest, Bismarck (N.D.) 1917-1918
2019-P-033-00071 M. J. O'Connor and the Capitol Street Car, Bismarck (N.D.) 03/23/1917
2019-P-033-00072 – 00073 Sakakawea Statue, Capitol Grounds, Bismarck (N.D.) XX
2019-P-033-00074 Missouri River flood at Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge, Bismarck (N.D.) 04/08/1917
2019-P-033-00075 Northern Pacific Railroad tracks flooded by the Missouri River, Bismarck (N.D.) 04/08/1917
2019-P-033-00076 Alfred Anderson 1918
2019-P-033-00077 Bismarck Fur Company interior, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1920
2019-P-033-00078 McCabe Methodist Episcopal Church, Bismarck (N.D.) 1917
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