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Bigelow Neal Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 144
Abstract
Correspondence with Dean H.L. Walster regarding North Dakota Agricultural College, President West, H.L. Walster, A.E. Minard, George and Oscar Will, and A.F. Yeager, clippings, typed copy of "Baron of Cowland," (10 leaves), an incomplete typed copy of "The last of the thundering herd," and "Valley of the dammed" which pertains to land buyouts by the Army Corps of Engineers for the Garrison Diversion project.
Dates:
1933-1962
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Biographical Sketch of James Barton II
Collection
Identifier: SC 709
Abstract
Photocopy of a biographical sketch by a granddaughter, Mrs. Walter Houghton, on the pioneer life of her grandparents James and Sarah Bartron who came to Coleharbor in 1882, including mention of the Fort Stevenson Indian School of which Bartron was superintendent for a time.
Dates:
1930
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Charles V. Danielson Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 168
Abstract
Original handwritten manuscript and typed copy (37 leaves) of "Early memories of Charles V. Danielson," recounting the life of his Swedish immigrant parents, Erick and Lovisa Danielson, who came to the United States in 1866 from Narkes Lane, Varmland, Sweden and to the Painted Woods area in 1879 to homestead, and on his life to about 1910; and two newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1953, 1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Edward Bjornholt Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 104
Abstract
Photocopies of the original diary of Edward Bjornholt together with an English translation. Diary begins with his departure for America in April 1903, coming to Montevideo, Minnesota where he worked for an Erik Molstad. The entries are usually short, telling what he did each day or where he was. The diary continues with his move to McLean County near the Emmet, N.D. post office. The entries document his establishing a homestead farm, interaction with neighbors, social events. Names of others...
Dates:
1903-1907
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Lorne Wilde Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2038
Scope and Contents
The Lorne Wilde Photograph Collection was found in Wilde's Fargo home after his death. It is not known if he took any of the images, or if he simply collected them for use in his newspaper articles. Very few include the name of the photographer or have much identification with them. The collection dates primarily from the 1920s and the photographs vary in size from 10 x 8 inch, professionally done photographs to 3½ x 5½ inch informal snapshots, although most are 5 x 7 in. gelatin silver...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1880 - 1920
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Mary Ann Barnes Williams Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 131
Abstract
Correspondence and reminiscences, relating to General George Custer, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, forts Buford, Mandan, and Abraham Lincoln, Sakakawea, frontier life, and North Dakota history; and newspaper articles concerning Williams.
Dates:
1931-1971.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
"North Dakota Towns of Extinction" by John Hensrud
Collection
Identifier: SC 816
Abstract
Paper concerns various North Dakota towns which have disappeared including Acton, Hanks, Mardell, Ojata, Omemee, Ruso, Sims, Wermer, and Winona, with suggestions as to why they disappeared.
Dates:
1978.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Welsh and Nordwall Reminisces
Collection
Identifier: SC 1904
Overview
Photocopy of Lenore Nordwall's typed manuscript, "We came to North Dakota".
Dates:
[1960].
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Wilhelm Wagner Book Collection
Collection
Identifier: GRHC SC 027
Summary
Two German language books, dating from 1884 to the 1890s, associated with the Wilhelm Wagner family of McLean County, North Dakota.
Dates:
1884 - 1899
Found in:
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection
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- Baker, Isaac Post, 1855-1938. 1
- Bartron, James, 1834-1916. 1
- Bartron, Sarah Hulett, 1842-1918. 1
- Bjornholt, Edward, 1878-1965. 1
- Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876. 1
- Danielson, Charles V., 1872- 1
- Danielson, Erick. 1
- Fort Stevenson Indian School (Fort Stevenson, N.D.) 1
- Garrison Diversion Project. 1
- Gillett, F. E. (Fred E.), b. 1865. 1
- Graebner, Theodore, 1876-1950. 1
- Hensrud, John. 1
- Houghton, Walter, Mrs. 1
- Minard, A. E. (Archibald Ellsworth), 1878-1950. 1
- Neal, Bigelow, 1891-1962. 1
- Nordwall family. 1
- Nordwall, Gus, 1878-1954. 1
- Nordwall, Lenore, 1895- 1
- North Dakota Agricultural College. 1
- North Dakota Bankers' Association. 1
- North Dakota State University. 1
- Sacagawea. 1
- United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. 1
- Wagner, Wilhelm, 1877- 1
- Walster, Harlow L. (Harlow Leslie), 1883-1957. 1
- Welsh, Nellie, 1874-1949. 1
- Welsh, Thomas Alan, 1868-1953. 1
- West, John C., 1885- 1
- Wilde, Lorne. 1
- Will, George F. (George Francis), 1884-1955. 1
- Will, Oscar H., 1855-1917. 1
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