Special Collections Finding Aids

Abstract One of the earliest settlers in the Fargo area whose papers document his private and business affairs.

Abstract Kate Selby Wilder was active in civic affairs in Fargo as well as state and nationally. In 1919 she was elected to the Fargo City Commission, being the first woman in North Dakota to hold such a position. The Kate Selby Wilder Papers are an eclectic collection of documents related to her life, as well as the Selby and Wilder families. The collection has been arranged by the type of document. All of the files are quite small and give only a brief look into Mrs. Wilder’s life.

Abstract The Masonic Grand Lodge of North Dakota Historical Collection contains historical clippings and information acquired by the Grand Lodge Library over many years prior to its donation to NDSU Archives.

Scope and Contents The Mort Mazaheri Papers document primarily the work of the many graduate students that studied under Mazaheri in the NDSU Community and Regional Planning program as reflected in the many papers researched and written by the students. Together the papers form a valuable, historical collection related to planning and land use, particularly in Fargo, N.D. and to a lesser extent in Moorhead, Minn. and North Dakota in general. The graduate papers have been organized into topical series, many...

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 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 life,...

Abstract Local newspaper man who collected articles and wrote articles on different events and people significant to North Dakota and western Minnesota.

Abstract Letter from son Thomas Canfield, Jr. to Leonard Sackett, illustrated sale brochure on the Canfield farm near Lake Park, Minn., a typed, incomplete biographical piece (1 leaf) entitled When North Dakota's capitol city, Bismarck, was named "Edwinton" and a newspaper clipping on his life.