Special Collections Finding Aids

Abstract The club, organized in 1954 and located northeastern North Dakota, is devoted to garden interests, especially the Pioneer Memorial Gardens at Homme Recreation Area in Walsh County, N.D. The club records include Constitution and Bylaws, Treasurer’s Records, Project Plans, Subject Files, and Scrapbooks. One note are the scrapbooks, from 1980 and later, that follow the political career of one of the club members, Rosemarie Myrdal, former Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota. The other set of...

Abstract The Angela Stott Brennan Papers document her life, her husbands and children, and the Midway Service station of Adrian, N.D. which she and her husband operated. The correspondence includes letters from servicemen including James Murray in Vietnam (1969-1970). The majority of the collection consists of school, military service and other personal documents of family members from the 1950s into the 1970s.

Abstract A prized playwright and dramatist from Webster, North Dakota who wrote several full length plays and books. Includes her works 'Choice' which is the story of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and 'I Remember, I Remember,' a story of a North Dakota childhood. There are also her poetry files, numerous manuscript stories. The 'Anecdotage' manuscript documents memories of a North Dakota childhood which include homesteading, prairie schooner, the threshers, a country school,...

Abstract Icelandic American lawyer and state legislator, of Mountain, N.D., and later of Oregon.

Abstract Correspondence; interviews with Mackall's son and daughter-in-law, Henry C. and Margaret (Robertson) Mackall, of Minneapolis, Minn., relating to Mackall, the family business, B.F. Mackall Inc., and John L. Grandin, owner of Grandin Farms and family friend, of Warren, Pa., area (original home of Mrs. Mackall); scrapbook compiled by Marjorie Cruikshank, containing information concerning the estate of Jay Cooke, dredging on the Red River, and Red River Valley history; and newspaper clippings.

Abstract Consists of four scrapbook/notebooks kept by Mrs. Hageman regarding the John F. Reynolds Corps No. 1 (Fargo, N.D.) of the Woman's Relief Corps. The books contain newspaper clippings, membership and officer lists, notes regarding meetings and her own work in the corps, plus several letters.

Abstract A collection complied by the Institute staff from various sources to honor the former medical doctor turned music instructor at the North Dakota Agricultural College.

Abstract The auxiliary's origins began at former St. John, St. Ansgar and Dakota hospitals in Fargo-Moorhead area. It's mission was to raise funds for the benefit of the hospitals and F-M area.

Abstract The collection consists of the justice docket for Abercrombie (1907-1940); mortgages; contracts; warranty deeds (1885-1895); First Rifle Regiment of Vermont roll (1843); financial records (1862-1880) of his father, Martin C. Clark; corpse transport permits; county tax receipts; and two scrapbooks (1980-1956) of clippings on people and historical events at Abercrombie and Richland County which were complied by Ethel Clark Hutchinson.

Abstract Photocopy of scrapbook compiled by Effie Rosenberg, which documents Olaf Rosenberg's ski jumping, primarily at Fargo, N.D. and California, with some mention of tournaments at S.D. and Minnesota. Includes clippings and snapshots of skiers and friends who skied. Also includes a photocopy of the program for the Fargo-Moorhead Ski Club's fifteenth annual tournament (1937) which was in the scrapbook.