Sandra (Bengerdes) Miles Collection

Collection

Identifier: GRHC 028

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Sandra (Bengerdes) Miles Collection is comprised of materials related to her German Russian ancestry. Included within this collection are family trees for the Spiker/Speakar and Heagel Families, two photocopied passports for Christian Spiker, and an unknown individual with the surname Kasper, both of which are in Russian. Also present in this collection is a correspondence between Miles and Michael Miller concerning the history of a textile that is part of Miles’ family history, dated 1995. Also included in the collection is a Heritage Review (Vol. 36, No. 2, June 2006) that includes an article written by Sandra (Bengerdes) Miles, entitled “Unraveling the Fibers.”

Dates

Majority of material found within 1900 - 1995

Creator

Miles, Sandra Bengerdes. (Person)

Access

Access to the physical collection is available upon request. Request must be made at least three (3) business days prior to ndsu.grhc@ndsu.edu.

Copyright

Copyrights to items in this collection remain with original copyright holders or are in the public domain.

Biography

Sandra (Bengerdes) Miles, an artist who is a member of “Gallery 4” in Fargo, is the founder and president of the Red River Watercolor Society. Her textiles were included in the 1995 exhibition, “The Kempf Family: German from Russia Weavers on the Dakota Prairie”. Her grandmother, Christine Marie Heagel, was from the Lutheran ancestral village of Norka in the South Volga region of Russia.

Extent

.25 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Russian

German

Additional Description

Summary

This collection contains correspondence, c. 1995; photocopies of family trees and passports for the Speaker/Spiker and Heagel familes; and a Heritage Review from 2006.