|
Harold
Schafer portrait
| Title: |
Harold Schafer
portrait [graphic]. |
| Imprint: |
Bismarck :
Rudrud, 1977 |
| Medium: |
1 photographic
print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Part
of: |
Portrait
Collection (Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo) |
| Description:
|
Studio portrait
of Harold Schafer. |
| Biographical
Note: |
Creator and
Chairman of the Board of Gold Seal Company, Harold Schafer is the
founder of North Dakota's largest home-owned business. He was the
youngest-ever recipient of the Horatio Alger Award and is also responsible
for restoration and development of Medora, one of North Dakota's
leading tourist attractions. Schafer was born in Stanton and attended
public schools at Stanton, Hazen, Killdeer, Glen Ullin and Jamestown.
He graduated from Bismarck High School in 1929 and attended North
Dakota State University in Fargo. Before founding the Gold Seal
Company on May 1, 1942, Schafer traveled western North Dakota working
for several Bismarck firms. At the time of its founding the company
was regional, but soon the Gold Seal products, among them Glass
Wax, Mr. Bubble and Snowy Bleach, became known worldwide. The company
was sold to Airwick Industries in 1986, but several of the original
Gold Seal products can still be found on supermarket and drugstore
shelves today. Schafer is founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Medora
Foundation, the organization that owns and operates the majority
of attractions in Medora, including the famous Medora Musical, which
entertains nearly 125,000 visitors each season. He was awarded North Dakota's Theodore
Roosevelt Roughrider Award in 1975. |
| Note:
|
Title supplied
by cataloger. |
| Time
Period: |
1970-1979.
|
| Subjects:
|
Businessmen
-- North Dakota -- Bismarck |
| |
Schafer, Harold,
1912- |
| Corporate
Name: |
Rudrud Studio
(Bismarck, N.D.) |
| Record
No.: |
VM99-020409
|
| Call
No.: |
P204.5 |
| Videodisc
No.: |
RS-1-01362
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| Credit
Line: |
Institute
for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (P204.9) |
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