Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Contents The Northern States Power photographic collection, tells the history of electric power and natural gas production in the city of Fargo from the 1910s to the early 1980s. The photographs featured in this collection document how the two plants changed through time and technology. The collection has been organized into six series: Gas plant, Steam plant, Subject files, Gas plant lawsuit, Personnel, and Events. Some of the images were removed from a display at the Fargo NSP office. These...

Abstract Typed reminiscence (19 leaves) on his pioneer Norwegian immigrant parents, Andrew and Christine Overby, who settled in Wilkin County, Minn. in 1890. Includes mention of digging water wells, plowing with oxen, description of a sod house, David McCauley and McCauleyville, Minn., road construction, peddlers, threshing, butchering, stage coaches, passenger and freight traffic on the Red River, expansion of the railroad, blizzards and weather during the 1896-1897 winter, and the naming of Wilkin...