Richard M. Nixon, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower (7)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The William Stern Photograph Collection consists of items located at the time of donation at Dakota Bank and Trust and given to the Institute prior to the bank’s merger with another bank. The images have been organized into three series: Dakota National Bank, Presidential portraits, and General portraits. Most have no specific identification on the back and many taken by Dan Olsen, Fargo photographer.
The Dakota National Bank Series consists of photographs of the new bank constructed in the early 1960s on Broadway. There are several snapshots of the older building on Broadway, and of its newer branch office on South University Drive. There are several interiors of the old building’s counter and of the new buildings, likely at the time of a grand opening. In December 1971 two buildings adjacent to the bank burned and there are views of the aftermath of that winter fire. The businesses destroyed were the Chatterbox Tavern (505 N.P. Ave.) and Smokeshop Café (507 N.P. Ave.). On the second floor was the Elgin Hotel. The group photographs may not all be related to the bank and may be other groups with which Bill Stern was involved. He is featured in several, including by a Northwest Airlines airplane. There are two views of customers at an after-hours depository and another at a counter.
In 1956 Bill Stern and A.M. Eriksmoen attended the First National Bank of Chicago Conference of Bank Corespondents and there are four views of Stern, Eriksmoen and others at the conference.
The Presidential Portrait Series includes several images of Bill Stern with then Vice-president Richard M. Nixon. There is also one of Nixon playing the piano with a man and woman standing by him. There is a view of Vice-president Harry Truman swearing in U.S. Senator Milton R. Young in 1945, and a portrait of Truman at his desk with inscribed, “Best wishes to Bill Stern, Harry Truman.” There is a large hand colored portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, perhaps a copy, but with “Dan E. Olson Studio, Fargo, N. D.” imprinted on front.
The General Portrait Series includes portraits, some inscribed to Bill Stern, from Robert Byrd, Chiang Kai-shek and wife, Herbert Hoover, Louis Johnson, Warren G. Magnuson, Nelson Rockefeller, a printed drawing of Harold E. Stassen, Chuck Mayo, Cardinal Aloisius Muench, and an unidentified man in a cowboy hat and jeans.
Dates
- 1940s-1971.
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.
Extent
From the Collection: 56 Photographic Prints (56 photographic prints : 8 x 10 in. and larger.)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Stern, William, 1886-1964. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu