Albert Hallenberg Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: Mss 1510

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Albert Hallenberg scrapbook was compiled by his wife Pearl after his death in 1940. It includes a wide variety of materials related to Mr. Hallenberg’s life and profession career to include correspondence, diplomas, certificates, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The scrapbook pages were originally enclosed in a leather binding, kept intact with three large O-rings. The pages have been removed and each placed in a plastic sheet to protect them better. Page numbers also have been added. The original leather binder has been retained and kept in a separate box. The scrapbook follows roughly in chronological order the life of Dr. Hallenberg beginning with diplomas and other certificates upon graduating from dentistry school. The pages continue with newspaper clippings related to his life and his many involvements in local and national organizations. The scrapbook pages also include three patents issued to Dr. Hallenberg, for an X-Ray Film Holder from the U.S.A. in 1923, a Hand Mixing Receptacles issued by the U.S.A. in 1929 and one from Canada in 1910 for the same Hand-Mixing Receptacles. There are several clippings and other documents related to Dr. and Mrs. Hallenberg’s visit to Scandinavia in 1936. The scrapbook includes forty-six photographic prints interspersed throughout the scrapbook. There is a nice series of images of Mr. and Mrs. Hallenberg as young people and of interior views of his dental office in Fargo. Of particular interest is a series of portraits given to Mr. Hallenberg by friends and associates including of Nils Tronnes, Axel Oftedal, Norman Black, John Sunday, Dr. J.A. Heidbrink, Dean Hugh L. Burleson, Bishop Frederick B. Barlett, Tom Cook, Lt. Col. John D. Easton, Earl Reineke, and Casey Finnegan.

Dates

1900-1940.

Creator

Hallenberg, Albert, 1879-1940. (Person)

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Institute.

Copyrights

The Institute owns the copyrights.

Biography

Albert Hallenberg was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on October 16, 1879, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Hallenberg. He came as an infant with his parents to Fargo where he grew up. He attended the North Dakota Agricultural College and the University of Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry in 1900. Mr. Hallenberg returned to Fargo where he practiced dentistry his entire career. In 1918 he did post-graduate work at the Royal College of Surgery in Toronto, Canada.

Mr. Hallenberg was very active in national dental associations including vice president of the American Dental Association, president of the North Dakota Dental Association, the Fargo Dental Society and the Southeast District Dental Society. He was chairman for North Dakota of the Preparedness League of American Dentists during World War I. He was also active in North Dakota Agricultural College athletics, having played football during 1895 and 1896. He was president of the first Bison booster club and served as its president. He was chairman of the NDAC YMCA from 1928 to 1938 and later a trustee. Albert Hallenberg married Pearl Childs of Chicago. She was born in 1888 and spent her youth in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. They had two children, Childs Hallenberg and Charlotte Hallenberg (Strubler). Dr. Hallenberg died November 17, 1940 in Fargo. Mrs. Hallenberg died May 16, 1960 in Hawaii. They are buried at Riverside Cemetery, Fargo, N.D.