Eliot Richards Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 525
Scope and Contents
Typed summary of an interview (7 leaves) concerning his father, Harry Richards, Fargo coal dealer and later farmer at Perley, Minn. Includes mention of Harry Richards finding his farm, describes its location on the Red River, mentions a landslide near the house, description of how the house was heated, the poultry business located at the Richards Farm, O.C. Olson, General Thomas M. Walker and his death, and Harry Richards' first automobile.
Dates
- 1955
Creator
- Richards, Eliot, 1881- (Person)
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Institute.
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection is held by the Institute.
Biography
Born at Fargo, N.D., son of Harry and Sarah (Eliot) Richards. His family returned to Erie, Penn. and then moved back to Moorhead, Minn. area. Attended preparatory school at Stanford, Conn., graduated from Dartmouth College in 1905. Returned to the Richards Farm at Perley, Minn. He died April 2, 1972 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.
Extent
1 Items (1 item (7 leaves).)
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Donated by Eliot Richards on September 9, 1955.
Property rights
The Institute for Regional Studies owns the property rights to this collection.
- Automobiles -- Minnesota -- Anecdotes.
- Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation -- Minnesota.
- Farmers -- Minnesota.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota.
- Interviews.
- Landslides -- Minnesota.
- Norman County (Minn.)
- Olson, O. C. (Olaus C.), 1871-1958.
- Perley (Minn.)
- Red River of the North.
- Richards Farm (Minn.)
- Richards, Eliot, 1881- -- : Interviews.
- Richards, Harry.
- Walker, Thomas McCormick, 1834-
Creator
- Richards, Eliot, 1881- (Person)
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Eliot Richards Interview
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
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3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu