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Alice K. Olson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 356
Abstract
The Alice Olson Papers and accompanying oral history interview provide us with a view of an extremely energetic feminist agent of social change and consciousness during the turbulent years of the 1960s and into the early 1980s. We can see how she interacted with people and politics on a local and national level to bring women into politics as more than just observers of the process, for them to be activists for causes that would elevate womenâs rights to a higher level than they had previously...
Dates:
1968-1983.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Alice K. Olson Papers
Arthur G. Divet Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 69
Abstract
Pamphlet on the Brookside Farm at Wahpeton, N.D. owned by Mr. Divet and W.E. Purcell; and newspaper clippings, regarding his life and on "The Divet Story," published in the Fargo Forum newspaper in 1950.
Dates:
1922-1950
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Arthur G. Divet Papers
Aubrey Lawrence Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 59
Abstract
Correspondence, chiefly with Fargo, N.D., lawyer Herbert Nilles, relating to land owned with Henry F. Miller; and obituary.
Dates:
1929-1953
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Aubrey Lawrence Papers
Bardi G. Skulason Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 252-Mss 1500
Abstract
Icelandic American lawyer and state legislator, of Mountain, N.D., and later of Oregon.
Dates:
1901-1955
Bert M. Salisbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 64
Abstract
Correspondence (1935-1936), reminiscences relating to Salisbury's career and local politics, speeches, contracts, and expense account records. Includes information pertaining to the Benson County Holiday Association and his activities as secretary and also to the North Dakota Farm Holiday Association.
Dates:
1935-1953.
Burleigh F. Spalding Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 8
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.
Dates:
1924-1975
Charles G. Bangert Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1204
Abstract
Iowa native who received his law degree through correspondence courses and served as city attorney of Enderlin, ND for 40 years as well as being active with the Enderlin Independent, the local paper, and serving as a state senator.
Dates:
1900-1966
Fred W. McLean Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 1164
Abstract
Correspondence, including letters to and from Franklin D. Roosevelt (1928-1933), land deeds, contracts, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1895-1961
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Fred W. McLean Papers
John Burke Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 974
Abstract
Copy of letter to Elizabeth Preston Anderson concerning his views on initiative and referendum, Thanksgiving 1912 proclamation, reminiscence (2 leaves) by Bardi G. Skulason entitled "Republican revolt against boss rule in North Dakota," and newspaper clippings including on the statue of Burke and his obituary.
Dates:
1907-1964
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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John Burke Collection
John F. Douglas Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1148
Abstract
Letters, and a typed reminiscence entitled "A biographical sketch of John Francis Douglas and Neva B. Douglas" (40 leaves) by Neva B. Douglas on her husband's life in North Dakota, his student days at the University of North Dakota and after 1900 in Seattle, Wash., and on her life, especially her student days at the University of North Dakota, and her marriage to Mr. Douglas in 1898. The North Dakota section includes material on his parents, James A. and Annie Scott Douglas, of Goodwood,...
Dates:
1956-1961