Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Content From the Collection: This North Dakota Masonic Temple Collection is a valuable reference collection covering almost all facets of Red River Valley history and to some extent North Dakota. It is comprised mainly of newspaper clippings although there are some pamphlets, brochures and manuscripts. Unfortunately, many items are not dated or the source is not indicated. This collection was gathered and maintained by the Masonic Temple library over many years. The index was, also compiled by the library...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains materials related to the clubs work between the 1970s and the late 1990s. It includes a revised constitution and by-laws, program booklets, and historian reports about club activities.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is arranged in alphabetical order and/or chronological order, as received from the donor. The majority of the collection consists of drawings, plans, and files of set designs for Don’s productions at NDSU from 1969 through the present. There are also some swatches for costumes for a number of the productions and that information is noted at the folder level. There are also a number of oversized performance photographs and production posters. The collection consists...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The majority of the artifacts are from the North Dakota Photograph Collection (Acc. 2740), which was compiled by John Caron, a native of Fargo, N.D., and a graduate of Fargo Central High School and NDSU, where he received his BA in mathematics in 1966. He collected photographic and postcard images of Fargo from which he developed a website on Fargo’s history. In 2004 he donated the web site of some 600 individual pages containing over 1,000 images to the Institute for Regional Studies, as...

Scope and Content From the Collection: This North Dakota Masonic Temple Collection is a valuable reference collection covering almost all facets of Red River Valley history and to some extent North Dakota. It is comprised mainly of newspaper clippings although there are some pamphlets, brochures and manuscripts. Unfortunately, many items are not dated or the source is not indicated. This collection was gathered and maintained by the Masonic Temple library over many years. The index was, also compiled by the library...

Scope and Content From the Collection: This North Dakota Masonic Temple Collection is a valuable reference collection covering almost all facets of Red River Valley history and to some extent North Dakota. It is comprised mainly of newspaper clippings although there are some pamphlets, brochures and manuscripts. Unfortunately, many items are not dated or the source is not indicated. This collection was gathered and maintained by the Masonic Temple library over many years. The index was, also compiled by the library...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, Sound Recordings Collection contains 276 cassette tapes of sound recordings of numerous subjects relating to the history and heritage of Germans from Russia, dating to c. 1961- 1995. The cassettes were collected by the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies (now NDSU Archives), NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota, and were transferred to the GRHC, 11 June 2010. The collection has been processed into two series: Subject Files and Oral...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The research papers of Jon and Elaine Lindgren contain letters and other research material they collected for writing of their article, published in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences, titled “Social Change Within the ‘Establishment’: A City’s Response to National Antiabortion Protesters”. This collection consists of the article itself, as well as the letters and other research material used to prepare the article. Some of the letters were form letters requesting the release of Gerrety,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Ronald Olin Postcard Collection comprises over 1,200 postcards documenting Fargo, N.D. The postcards in the collection date mainly from the early to mid-twentieth century, although there are also postcards from throughout the later part of the twentieth century. They hey-day of postcards was from 1907 to 1915. Most of the cards in the collection were commercially produced and represent well-known Fargo buildings, monuments, and views. A small number of the cards, though, document town...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Cass Count, N.D. Unfiled Miscellaneous Actions span from a time frame if 1928, to 1946. The files are part of the Cass County Civil Court case files, but were likely not formally brought forward as part of a civil action. The files were originally house in a filing cabinet, in a numbered series, of which the original order has been kept. A majority of the files consist of minutes written in shorthand. In the case files which are solely shorthand minutes, a notation of that point has...