Special Collections Finding Aids

Abstract Organization founded 1890 as an auxiliary to the local John F. Reynolds Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Activities included participation in Memorial Day observances, contributing to the Soldiers Home at Lisbon, N.D., presenting flags to various institutions, entertaining Company B of the North Dakota National Guard in 1898 and 1917, donating money and materials during World War I, Red Cross work, and adopting war orphans. Records include correspondence, minutes, membership rolls,...

Abstract Copies of speech, programs, clippings, obituaries, and memorials, relating to Young, including materials concerning his career as chief justice (1902-1906) of North Dakota Supreme Court; address by his wife, Ida (Clarke) Young as president of North Dakota Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, presented to the Minnesota association (1915); autobiography; poems; and documents relating to First Congregational Church of Fargo.

Abstract Collection, mostly photocopies, of documents, clippings and letters regarding Newton K. Hubbard. A photocopy of a scrapbook kept by granddaughter Elizabeth Lorshbough contains letters to his parents during the Civil War, military pension documents, newspaper clippings by and about Hubbard, reminiscences by him about the earliest years of settlement in the Red River Valley and Fargo area, and obituaries. There is a copy of one of the first, if not the first, deeds by the Northern Pacific...

Abstract President of Historical Research Inc., Minneapolis, Roberts conducted a number of surveys for North Dakota National Register of Historic Places nominations.

Scope and Contents The Norene Roberts Photograph Collection was accessioned as part of her papers that she donated to the Institute for Regional Studies in 1995. Those papers have been processed as Manuscript 190. The collection contains 407 photographs in color and black & white. Most if not all were taken by Ms. Roberts. Most but not all of the prints have corresponding negatives. Those that do have been so noted on the back of the print. The photographs are arranged within each series alphabetically by...

Abstract The North Dakota Architectural Records Collection includes a diverse collection of blueprints and other drawings for buildings from across the state and by a variety of architects, both in North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota.

Abstract The North Dakota Human Rights Coalition records contains the series of meeting minutes from March 22, 2000, through May 9, 2002, a series of e-mail correspondence from August 2000 through July 2001, and a correspondence series, divided into general correspondence and two important sub-series: discussions with North Dakota Labor Commissioner Mark Bachmeier, and correspondence and documents relating to the successful request for a grant from the Bremer Foundation. There follows a series of...

Abstract School located in Fargo providing non-sectarian religious education and eventually absorbed into the NDSU Department of Religion under the supervision of a Professor of Religion.

Abstract The Village of North Fargo, North Dakota Board of Trustees Minutes consist of one book of minutes, 1922-1924. The Village of North Fargo was incorporated in 1913. Annexation by the City of Fargo in 1922 led to lawsuits that eventually went to the N.D. Supreme Court in 1925.

Scope and Contents The Northern States Power photographic collection, tells the history of electric power and natural gas production in the city of Fargo from the 1910s to the early 1980s. The photographs featured in this collection document how the two plants changed through time and technology. The collection has been organized into six series: Gas plant, Steam plant, Subject files, Gas plant lawsuit, Personnel, and Events. Some of the images were removed from a display at the Fargo NSP office. These...