Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Contents The Fargo Police, Accidents and Investigations Photograph Collection includes a variety of images of the Fargo Police at work and some of the accidents and crimes they investigated. The photographs range from a group portrait of the Fargo Police Force to photographs of police at work, police vehicles and training. Included are photographs of accidents and crime scenes, some of which were published in the Fargo Forum. In addition, the collection contains photographs of the Blizzard of 1946,...

Scope and Contents The Fargo Public Library Photograph Collection was semi-organized into folders when deposited at the Institute for Regional Studies. That basic arrangement was retained and refined. The collection is organized alphabetically by topic or, in several cases, geographic. To provide more detailed access, each photograph in the collection has been itemized in the Content section with a brief descriptive title. To search for topics or specific images the researcher should consult the Content section....

Abstract Founded in 1955 as the Fargo Retired Teachers Club, a social club for women teachers who retired from the Fargo school system.

Scope and Contents The Fargo Urban Renewal Photograph Collection includes photographs and slides documenting the two Fargo urban renewal projects, Main Avenue Urban Renewal, and the Fourth Street Urban Renewal, as kept by Earl Stewart who headed the Fargo Urban Renewal Agency. The two other Fargo urban renewal photograph collections were accessioned with the corresponding records. This collection includes photographs of housing of the time, major buildings, demolition and businesses in the areas affected. The...

Scope and Contents There are a total of forty-one photographs comprising five folders. Four of the photographs are of buildings; of the rest, a handful are portraits and the remainder are of people engaged in performances, parties and dinners, and various preparatory activities relating to each. Most of these are candid shots, though a few are posed. With the exception of some of the portraits, which were taken by New Garden Studio (Fargo, ND), all of the photographs appear to be taken by an amateur photographer....

Abstract Notarized photograph of 1872 list of birthdates for Francis and Maria E. Manchester Lewis' children; includes Lucinda C. Moulton, second wife of Francis Lewis and their children also. Typed copy of interview and corrections with T.I. Lewis, contains mention of his brothers, Arthur and Albert, their Davenport, N.D. grocery store, their partnership with James Yoder of Fargo, Addison Leech, James Kennedy, T.I.'s career as a watchmaker and jeweler and later as a representative of Griggs Cooper,...

Abstract Served as Fargo City Engineer, and secretary and construction engineer of the North Dakota State Capitol Commission which oversaw the construction of the state capitol. Also a Medal of Honor recipient.

Abstract Frank and Audrey Scott were Fargo, North Dakota natives. He arranged and wrote music for television shows including the Lawerence Welk Show, and later had his own band at Palm Desert, California. Audrey Remme Scott was a singer and entertainer. A recent accesion includes all his arrangements for his own band.

Scope and Contents The Frank Scott Photograph Collection was organized into four series: Frank Scott, WDAY Radio, Frank Scott’s bands, and Subject files. The images span from his youth in Fargo, N.D. and at WDAY Radio to his bands that performed in California and his association with Lawrence Welk. The collection consists of 91 images, both color and gelatin silver, 8 x 10 inches and smaller. The Frank and Audrey Scott papers have been processed as Mss 195. The Frank Scott Series includes a nice series of...

Scope and Contents The Frank W. Meyer Photograph Collection spans two decades from the early 1950s to the late 1960s; including photos of Fargo winters and summers, parades, floods, tornado pictures, and even a downtown fire. The collection consists of 51 images, all slides or digital scans from the original slides. These photographs were acquired by the Institute from Frank’s son Raymond and have been organized into two series: Digital Scans and Slides. The Digital Scans Series consists of ten digital scans...