Jamestown College.
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Anne Walters Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2111
Scope and Contents
The Anne Walters Photograph Collection was received as part of the Anne Walters Papers, which were processed separately as Mss 171. The photograph collection consists of photographs of the Walter and Buck families. The time period ranges from the 1890s to the 1960s. The photographs were organized into five series: Anne Walters and family, Buck Homestead in North Dakota, Jamestown College, Haig family, Philippines.
The Anne Walters and Family Series consists of two portraits of the Anne...
Dates:
1890s-1960s
Edna LaMoore Waldo Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 5
Abstract
Review of "Dakota", copies of "Pageant of the Missouri", "Sunbonnet Trail", unbound first printing of "Dakota", several letters, biographical and genealogical material on the Dearborn, Freeman, and LaMoore families, and several articles from her "Way Back When" series including Fort Rice, Fort Lincoln, Linda Slaughter, Custer, 7th Cavalry, and expeditions to survey for expansion of the railroads.
Dates:
1931-1956
Grace V. Watkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 233
Abstract
Fargo teacher and musician who was also a prolific writer and member of the National League of American Pen Women. The Grace Watkins papers includes her diaries that cover the years 1921-1928. During this period Miss Watkins graduated from high school, attended Jamestown College and graduate school at the University of Iowa. The entries are largely Miss Watkins’ personal experiences as a high school and college student. Along with her personal experiences readers get a sense of the culture of...
Dates:
1921-1960
Jeanette G. Kroeze Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 550
Abstract
Typed original copy of "The women musicians of North Dakota, (6 leaves) by Mrs. Kroeze. Paper includes Agnes Bishop Jardine, Alma Mehus Studness, Nora Fauchild Morgan, Helen McBride Strahl, Florence Brastrup, Myrna Sharlow Hitchcock, Peggy Lee, and Fanny Amidon. Newspaper clippings include two interviews of Mrs. Kroeze and her obituary.
Dates:
1955, 1970-1981
Sadie Walker Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 173
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, George Elliot, and life in early Jamestown. Includes mention of George Elliott coming to N.D. in 1879, the family's arrival in 1880, getting a contract to build railroad grade, buying a farm near Spiritwood, N.D., blizzards, the homesickness of Sadie's mother, description of their home, her father's attempts at gardening, digging a well, entertaining visitors, their move to Jamestown, N.D. where...
Dates:
1941, 1950, 1954, 1965.