Special Collections Finding Aids

Overview The materials in this vertical file (the collection is currently stored in filing cabinets) are an eclectic collection of documents that have some connection to Fargo’s history and institutions. The files are arranged alphabetically by topic or name. In some cases certain categories are grouped together under broader headings, such as businesses, churches, schools, etc. There is no complete consistency in how file headings were established and no attempt has been made to provide complete...

Scope and Contents This is an eclectic collection of photographs from the 1960s to early 1970s. The photographs were donated by the Fargo Public Schools, at the time it donated its historical records. Those records have been processed as Manuscript 263. All prints are gelatin silver prints. There are 35mm negatives for part of the classroom series. The collection contains pictures of school buildings, classrooms activities, the blizzard of 1966, meetings, personnel, and a few public buildings in Fargo. Many of...

Abstract Official records of the Fargo school district to include board minutes, financial records, student records, and information on individual schools.

Abstract Educator in Iowa, Minnesota and Fargo College.

Abstract Typed draft (29 pages) of autobiographical sketch detailing the lives of her parents and herself from 1881 to 1966, written in a diary format. Also includes listing of where she taught school from 1900 to 1948 together with her salary, newspaper clippings, and photocopies of several family photographs.

Scope and Contents The Grafton, N.D. Photograph Collection consists of a wide variety of images used in producing its centennial history book. A 100 Year Look at Grafton, North Dakota, published in 1982, contains numerous images of the history of Grafton. The collection was donated by Gloria Thompson, a member of the Centennial Book Committee. Other members of the committee were Virginia Anderson, Jean Dahl, and Ina Raumin. The book contains 553 pages including both family histories and general community history....

Abstract Booklet (ca. 1926) with extensive information on school and which was sent to prospective students, accreditation certificate, trade school association membership certificate, instruction lesson for electric class, 50th anniversary booklet, and a newspaper clipping.

Abstract Typed carbon copy of manuscript concerning the schools at Fort Yates, N.D. from 1877 through the 1940s. Includes two parts, the first entitled "History of education at Fort Yates, North Dakota" (6 leaves) which describes the Indian boarding school, also known as the Fort Yates Industrial School, which opened in 1877, later administrated by the Sisters of St. Benedict, finally by the local school district. It was closed briefly from 1934 to 1936, and began admitting white students in the 1940s....

Abstract Halland, a Norwegian immigrant, was the North Dakota Superintendent of Instruction from 1896 to 1900 and a North Dakota State University history professor from 1902 to 1910.

Abstract Historical sketch, "Some pioneer work in education," read at the 1926 Cass County School Officers Association meeting, the program for that meeting (25th anniversary), and her obituary.