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Amenia, N.D. Woman's Christian Temperance Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 565
Abstract Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Amenia, N.D. minutes (1903-1909), membership lists, and financial records (1888-1921).
Dates: 1887-1921.

Carl M. Grimstad Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 162
Abstract Carl Grimstad was a Walsh County, ND pioneer. The collection consists of a handwritten copy of his manuscript "Life in Dakota Territory, from 1879 to 1887," concerning his experience as a pioneer settler in Walsh County.
Dates: 1927-1932

Elizabeth Preston Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 653
Abstract The Elizabeth Preston Anderson Papers document the life and activities of a woman who influenced North Dakota politics by resisting efforts to reintroduce liquor to a dry state, by battling along with the suffragists to obtain the vote for North Dakota women, and by espousing a rigid moral program.‟ Her papers have been organized into four series: Correspondence, Autobiography, Histories, Pamphlets and Brochures, Speeches, Western Womanhood, and White Ribbon Bulletin.
Dates: 1889-1954

North Dakota Enforcement League Collection of Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 985
Abstract Photocopies of some league literature including: flier endorsing Usher Burdick for governor and listing Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Scandinavian Total Abstinence Society as supporters, a bulletin (1 leaf) from the league explaining its political platform, a flier outlining the voting record of Henry J. Linde, attorney general candidate whom the League opposed on moral issues, and an article by F.L. Watkins, league superintendent, commenting on lax enforcement of North Dakota liquor...
Dates: 1915-1916.

Program of the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the Cass County W.C.T.U.: Fargo, North Dakota, July 18, 19, 1901

 Item
Identifier: SC 673
Overview Contains a program for the thirteenth annual convention for the Cass County WCTU. This convention happened July 18, 1901.
Dates: 1901.

William H. Best Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 43
Abstract Papers of Casselton, N.D. grain buyer and real estate agent, and mayor, and Fargo, N.D. insurance agent, and Chief of Police.
Dates: 1838-1953, 1962.