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Alfred N. Terry Interview
Item
Identifier: SC 244
Abstract
Interview with Alfred Terry, bookkeeper for the Dalrymple bonanza farm, Casselton, North Dakota.
Dates:
1954.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Development of the Herman Diamond Disk Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 560
Abstract
Photocopy of his paper concerning his father, Ardon Herman of Brinsmade, N.D., who invented and developed a disk designed to lessen breakage of disk blades from rocks when tilling fields. It was later manufactured by Summers Manufacturing, Devils Lake, N.D. Includes an explanation of the problem with the old design of disks, the development of a prototype, and its solution using the diamond disk. Includes mention of Ardon Herman's method of building his prototype. Also includes a chart...
Dates:
1986
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Emil G. Trapp Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 827
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, August, who was a laborer on the Watson farm and the August F. Luther farm in Cass County, N.D. Includes mention of the L.F. Watson farm, its buildings, and various hired men, dispersal sale of the Watson farm, August Trapp's last wages, his purchase of farmland near Enderlin, N.D., threshing equipment, Emil's job as stableboy and assistant to the laundress at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, comments on...
Dates:
1957-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
F. A. Pazandak Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2026
Scope and Contents
The F.A. Pazandak Collection contains 115 images documenting the transition on a North Dakota farm from horses to steam engines to tractors, covering the period from 1908 to the 1920s. All images were taken by Mr. Pazandak on the Pazandak farms near Fullerton, N.D., in southeastern North Dakota. In addition, a hand-colored version for four of the images are included. These hand-colored images come from the Senator Milton R. Young Collection and had hung in his Senate office in Washington, D.C....
Dates:
1908-1960s
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
History of K.G. Springen
Collection
Identifier: SC 186
Abstract
Typed biographical sketch of Knut Gunder Springen. Includes mention of traveling to N.D. in 1882, settling at Mayville, N.D., his banking interests in Mayville, and Northwood, N.D. and Montana, selling of horses, land, and farm machinery, his appointment as the N.D. representative to the 1914 Abraham Lincoln Presentation Committee.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [195-]
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
John L. Walcher Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 241
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (11 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Adams Farm (also known as Fairview Farm) and Elk Valley Farm. Includes mention of his father, John Walcher, a German immigrant, who hauled freight in Minnesota, moved to Sargent County, N.D. in 1885 to farm, later moving to Sauk Center, Minn. to manage a hotel, son John L. working at Elk Valley Farm, plowing with mules, being struck by lightning, Deering grain binders, carpentering at Adams Farm, W.P. and Mrs. Adams,...
Dates:
1954, 1968
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Joseph R. Askew Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 493
Scope and Contents
The Joseph R. Askew Photograph Collection includes five photographs taken of Askew and life on his farm near Casselton, North Dakota. All family members are seen variously in these photographs, and a family friend Alex McKinnon. All the photographs portray farm life in rural Cass County in the early 20th century. The collection is organized into a single series by the year they were perceived or known to be taken. Two of the photographs were taken by Casselton photographer, George Tise. For the...
Dates:
1917 - 1939
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Robert B. Reed Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 438
Abstract
Typed summary of first interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett includes mention of the Chaffee family, Helendale Farm, description of a round grain elevator at Amenia, handling grain, his uncle, Cornelius Reed, who worked at the Amenia grain elevator, plows and grain binders used at Amenia and Sharon, Amenia store, description of various sections of Amenia and Sharon land, Robert and John Reed buying cattle and sheep, raising sheep at the Amenia and Sharon, the Reed-Sargent farm partnership...
Dates:
1955-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Roy Frydenlund Paper
Collection
Identifier: SC 554
Overview
A paper written by Roy Frydenlund about the threshing machine known as the Sageng Combination Gasoline Thresher.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1984
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Adams, William P., 1863-1937. 1
- Askew, Joseph R., 1893-1962. 1
- Dalrymple Farms (N.D.) 1
- Dalrymple, Clark, b. 1863. 1
- Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908. 1
- Dalrymple, William, 1905- 1
- Frydenlund, Roy, 1920- 1
- Herman, Ardon. 1
- Herman, Peter K. 1
- Kniefle, Henry, 1877-1958. 1
- Kniefle, Pauline, 1885-1966. 1
- Luther, August F., 1872-1964. 1
- Mecklenburg, Emil, 1885-1956. 1
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 1
- Pazandak family. 1
- Pazandak, F. A. (Ferdinand August), 1883-1973. 1
- Pazandak, Vera, 1894-1985. 1
- Power, J. A. (James A.), d. 1924. 1
- Power, J. B. (James Buel), 1833-1912. 1
- Reed, J. H. (John Horace), 1846-1925. 1
- Reed, Robert B., 1874-1960. 1
- Sageng Threshing Machine Company (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1
- Sageng, Halvor. 1
- Sargent, E. C. 1
- Sargent, Frank. 1
- Springen, Knut Gunder, 1844-1932. 1
- Springen, Sophia. 1
- Summers Manufacturing (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
- Terry, Alfred N., 1881- 1
- Trapp, Emil G., 1876-1958. 1
- Walcher, John L., 1874-1968. 1
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