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Eva Nelson Memoirs
Collection
Identifier: Mss 218
Abstract
After teaching for thirty years in North Dakota, Eva Nelson wrote her memoirs, starting with her earliest recollections and continue in great detail until 1940. From 1940 to the late 1950s, she provides highlights of her activities rather than the detailed description of everyday life found in the first narratives. In the last three chapters of her narrative, Eva gives a synopsis of her life from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s. She used her diaries, surviving letters, and her memory to create...
Dates:
1914-1998
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Letter to Caroline and Michael Morgan
Collection
Identifier: SC 732
Abstract
Christmas letter written by Otava Koukol to friends, Caroline and Mike Morgan. In additional to current family events she reminisces about Jennie Kolstad who recently died, regarding their friendship during the 1930's depression at Glover, N.D.
Dates:
1968 Dec. 13.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Madalyn Kuhn Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 214
Abstract
The Madalyn Kuhn Papers contains her diaries while living in the Lisbon and Fargo-West Fargo, N.D. area. She kept a daily diary from 1932, when the author was 14, through 2000. From a researcher’s point of view, the diaries offer invaluable information on life in North Dakota, growing up in the 1930s, teen issues, social life, entertainment (especially movies), fashion, finances, diet and nutrition, dating, working conditions for single women, widowhood, single mother issues, and weather. The...
Dates:
1932-2000.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
North Dakota Homemaker’s Council. Oral History Project. Memories of North Dakota Homemakers Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 262- Tapes 361-514, 518-536, 565-579
Abstract
The records of the North Dakota Extension Homemakers Council’s Memories of North Dakota Homemakers Oral History Project document the memories of North Dakota homemakers across the state. The files include administrative files, tapes and transcripts of interviews done in every North Dakota county, original versions of the books, original versions of chapters that were not included in the books, and copies of the three books that were created by the project.
Dates:
1985-1990.
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
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