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Aagot Raaen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 8
Overview
The Aagot Raaen Papers contain research material and manuscripts for her book Grass of the Earth, correspondence including letters sent to the teachers and school officers by Miss Raaen while she was the Superintendent of Schools of Steele County, N.D., research on the the Hamarsbøn family in Norway and America, and several articles written by Raaen.
Dates:
1915-1953.
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Aagot Raaen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 177
Overview
The Aagot Raaen Papers consist of photocopies of the original papers at the Hatton-Eielson Museum and Historical Association, copied with their permission. Her diaries from Sept. 1939 to Sept. 1941 are very detailed, documenting her teaching in the Newburgh community, personal feelings, and social affairs. The handwritten 1873-1938 "diary" (ca. 42 leaves) as Raaen called it, is more accurately a chronology of her life and of the Raaen family compiled many years later. The family papers include...
Dates:
1798-1957; Majority of material found within 1890-1957
Found in:
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Aagot Raaen Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 527
Abstract
The Aagot Raaen was a Norwegian-American author of the book Grass of the Earth, and the Superintendent of Schools of Steele County, N.D.
Dates:
1870s-1950s
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Barnes County, N.D. Aerial Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2096
Abstract
The Barnes County, N.D. Aerial Photograph Collection consists of 190 high altitude, 9x9 inches, photographic prints, covering approximately 401 square miles of land in east central North Dakota. The majority of the images are located in Barnes County with approximately 353 square miles; however there are 9 square miles in the southeast corner of Griggs County, 21 square miles in the southwest corner of Steele County, and 18 square miles in the northwest corner of Ransom County also represented.
Dates:
1952
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Benjamin H. Barrett Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 255
Abstract
Extension agent in Emmons County, N. D. from 1934 to 1959 who wrote about his life as an agent and early farmer.
Dates:
ca. 1950-1976
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Family of Christoffer and Anne Rud Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 505
Abstract
Family history of Christoffer and Anne (1821-1893) Rud (spelled Ruud in Norway) whose children emigrated from Aurdal, Valdres, Norway and settled in Zumbrota, Minn., later moving to the Goose River Valley in N.D., and were followed by their parents. Includes mention of life in Norway, settling in Minnesota, meeting relatives and friends who settled in the Goose River Valley, church services in their cabin, marriages of their children, brief mention of snowstorms and prairie fires, and social...
Dates:
1960
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Homer A. Northrop Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 86
Abstract
Civil War correspondence to Northrop's family (1864-1865); diary (1864) relating to his service with 149th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment near Atlanta, Ga.; land patents; history of Baldwin Township, Barnes County, N.D.; newspaper clippings; and miscellany. No papers dated 1866-1889 and 1903-1959.
Dates:
1862-1967
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Katherine Gumb Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 993
Abstract
Iowa native who came to Fargo in 1887 and later became interested in the history of Steele County, N.D.
Dates:
ca. 1928-1941
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Luzerne J. Bowen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 34
Abstract
Book of stock certificates and stock ledger for the North Dakota Publishing Company of Fargo, promissory notes, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1903-1916, 1957, 1960.
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Myrtle Porterville Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 296
Abstract
Griggs County, N.D. native and resident whose avocation was collecting the history of Griggs County, amassing an amazing collection on the county's history and the people who lived there. The collection is a major genealogical resource for Griggs County.
Dates:
1861-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Barrett family. 1
- Barrett, Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1984. 1
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- Berg, Nikolai H., 1856-1945. 1
- Bowen, Luzerne J., 1886-1970. 1
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- Cooper, Rollin C., 1845-1938. 1
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- Dobie, Gilmour, 1878-1948. 1
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- Foss, Palmer L., 1888-1964. 1
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