The Dorothy (Taylor) Sanders Collection contains ten textile items, housed at the Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection, NDSU. The collection also contains one business ledger, dated 1894-1925. Also present are one photocopy of a photograph, one typewritten correspondence, and two gift card tags that were originally found with the textiles. View Separated Materials for a listing of textiles.

2010.10.01 Business ledger, 252 pages. German-language record concerning businesses and private citizens with numerous family names and dates. Entries in pencil, blue pencil, black & green ink. 1894 is the earliest entry date, 1925 is the latest entry date. Some of the businesses featured in the ledger include: Bank of Eureka, Rider & Jenin, I W Fallike, Jewett Brothers, Wemoth [Weymouth?] Howard & Co., Finch, Van Slyck & Company, Arnott & Corbett, Standard Oil Company. Some of the names of people mentioned in the ledger are Jakob Schmitt, Christian Zeller, John Pielz, Kasper Holz, Frank Lyon, Ella E Stout, F. Shumacher, York, Nebr, Gottlief Myer, and Ellis Myer. The ledger also features prayers or songs on pages 169-170.

2010.10.02 Photocopy of snapshot, enlarged. Shows two women, young one in full apron of floral print with rickrack trim worn over a sleeveless print dress. Older woman in plain white blouse with ¾ sleeves. May be wearing skirt or apron over skirt. Cord belt ends by right elbow. Inscribed above image: “Came to USA 1889/Johann & Dora Maier. Homesteaded in Eureke [sic] 8 miles w[est] 8 miles So/moved to Moorhead, Minn 1904-1906. Family home was moved to Bonanzaville/Maier Doll house originally now medical collection housed there now.” Inscribed below image: [at left] Magdelina “Maggie” Maier/Taylor 1st/Hanson 2nd 1924. [at right] Dorothea Maier (maiden name: Keller).

2010.10.14 Correspondence. Telegram to RH Hemmesch from GA Erickson, Agent, dated 17 January 1955 from Fargo, North Dakota about birth record for Godfrey Mayer. “I am enclosing this with a book record kept by his father which shows him as being born June 18, 1889.” [See page 54.]