Special Collections Finding Aids

Abstract Reminiscences (73 p., 1924) chiefly relating to North Dakota politics and Spalding's activities as U.S. representative (1899-1901, 1903-1905), with the state Republican Party, and as North Dakota Supreme Court judge (1907-1914), as dictated to Mary Nowatski; donor correspondence; and newspaper clippings. No papers dated 1935-1959.

Abstract Correspondence; family history concerning the Guthrie name; historical sketch of Alice Rutledge, early North Dakota teacher; poetry; pamphlets, chiefly tributes on the death of Guthrie; and clippings. Includes information relating to Guthrie's career as deputy Cass County, N.D., auditor and secretary of Fargo Board of Education; and Brig. Gen. Maxon S. Lough, prisoner of war in the Philippines during World War II, originally of Fargo, and son-in-law of Guthrie.

Abstract Organization started in 1953 by a small group of citizens concerned about keeping the city manager position in city government.

Abstract The collection consists of records dealing with the construction of early bridges between the cities of Fargo and Moorhead.

Abstract Financial records of the City of Fargo as well as license registers, contract record, sidewalk assessments, and record of ordinances.

Abstract The collection consists of official meeting minutes and other documenting over one hundred years of city government in Fargo, N.D.

Abstract The Fargo, North Dakota Board of Adjustment Papers contains the minutes of the Board, 1928-1933. The Board of Adjustment was an administrative agency that served to consider variances and special exceptions to ordinances, and heard appeals of interpretation of zoning ordinances.

Abstract The Gib Bromenschenkel Papers include materials related exclusively to Bromenschenkel's thirty-two year tenure on the Fargo City Commission. During his tenure, Gib was involved with the reorganization of the bus system, the controversial Model Cities Project, the Sheyenne Diversion Project, the Broadway Mall Project, the West Acres Mall development, the Metropolitan Council of Governments, redevelopment of the city water plant, the Torfin Teigen controversy, the Women's Health Clinic...

Scope and Contents The Herschel Lashkowitz Photograph Collection documents the political career of Herschel, particularly when he served at mayor of Fargo for twenty years. The collection covers a wide variety of topics and the many people he met while mayor, both visitors to Fargo as well as from his travels in the United States and overseas. This collection was part of the initial accession of his papers. A later accession of photographs was organized separately as Photo 2107. This collection contains 550...