Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Contents The Fargo Fourth Street Urban Renewal Agency Photograph Collection consists of 250 images used in the planning and execution phases of the project. The photographs were accessioned as part of the Fourth Street Urban Renewal records. The records were processed as Manuscript Collection 22. The photographs document the area affected by the project in the downtown residential and business district encompassed by 4th Street east to the Red River, located between 1st and 4th Avenues North. The...

Abstract Typed copy of the 1952-1953 financial statement.

Abstract The records document the activities of a established and active service and philantropic organization in the Fargo-Moorhead community.

Scope and Contents The Fargo Urban Renewal Agency Main Avenue photograph collection consists of 257 images used in the planning and execution phases of the project. The photographs were accessioned as part of the Main Avenue Urban Renewal records. The records were processed as Manuscript collection 149. The photographs document the area affected by the project in the downtown business district centered on Main Avenue. It includes aerials of the project area and a great variety of images of individual buildings...

Abstract Originally began as a plan to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fargo's incorporation, but expanded to include the city of Moorhead, MN.

Abstract Issues of its newsletter, The Peace gardener (published March-September 1981), posters, and press release.

Abstract Leaflet and photocopy of article concerning America's involvement in El Salvador.

Abstract Civic group organized to develop plans for a cultural bridge spanning the Red River between Fargo and Moorhead. Although never built, the award winning design was by renown architect Michael Graves.

Abstract Public speaker forum that began as an adult education program spanning the years 1930 to 1967 and attracted speakers such as Eleanor Roosevelt.