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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
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Caroline Cammerud Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: SC 707
Abstract
Photocopy of typed recollection of homesteading on the Sisseton Indian Reservation (Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, N.D. and S.D.) when it was opened for settlement in 1892.
Dates:
1900.
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Eben G. Guthrie Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 819
Abstract
Correspondence; family history concerning the Guthrie name; historical sketch of Alice Rutledge, early North Dakota teacher; poetry; pamphlets, chiefly tributes on the death of Guthrie; and clippings. Includes information relating to Guthrie's career as deputy Cass County, N.D., auditor and secretary of Fargo Board of Education; and Brig. Gen. Maxon S. Lough, prisoner of war in the Philippines during World War II, originally of Fargo, and son-in-law of Guthrie.
Dates:
1886-1945
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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
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Eva Nelson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 293
Abstract
Includes Eva Nelson's diaries, letters and other documents used to write her memoirs (Mss 218) documenting her life and long teaching career in North Dakota.
Dates:
1909-1998 (bulk 1930-1998)
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Fargo Retired Teachers Association Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 95
Abstract
Founded in 1955 as the Fargo Retired Teachers Club, a social club for women teachers who retired from the Fargo school system.
Dates:
1955-1990
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Gertrude Monson Fredrikson Autobiographical Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 790
Abstract
Typed draft (29 pages) of autobiographical sketch detailing the lives of her parents and herself from 1881 to 1966, written in a diary format. Also includes listing of where she taught school from 1900 to 1948 together with her salary, newspaper clippings, and photocopies of several family photographs.
Dates:
1966-1969
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Jeanette G. Kroeze Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 550
Abstract
Typed original copy of "The women musicians of North Dakota, (6 leaves) by Mrs. Kroeze. Paper includes Agnes Bishop Jardine, Alma Mehus Studness, Nora Fauchild Morgan, Helen McBride Strahl, Florence Brastrup, Myrna Sharlow Hitchcock, Peggy Lee, and Fanny Amidon. Newspaper clippings include two interviews of Mrs. Kroeze and her obituary.
Dates:
1955, 1970-1981
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Jennie M. Johnson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 951
Abstract
Letters of recommendation, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd grade teacher certificates, and teacher contracts from Hunter, Buffalo, and Goshen school districts (Cass County, N.D.) and a clipping of a poem by Laura Thorson, Mayville, N.D., titled "Fair prairie state."
Dates:
1890-1893
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Sadie Walker Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 173
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, George Elliot, and life in early Jamestown. Includes mention of George Elliott coming to N.D. in 1879, the family's arrival in 1880, getting a contract to build railroad grade, buying a farm near Spiritwood, N.D., blizzards, the homesickness of Sadie's mother, description of their home, her father's attempts at gardening, digging a well, entertaining visitors, their move to Jamestown, N.D. where...
Dates:
1941, 1950, 1954, 1965.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Best, Ina. 1
- Best, William Henry, 1849-1898. 1
- Brastrup, Florence. 1
- Buffalo School District No. 38 (Cass County, N.D.) 1
- Byrnes, Hazel Webster. 1
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- Felland, Eyvind, 1910- 1
- Foley, James W. (James William), 1874-1939. 1
- Fredrikson, Gertrude Monson, 1880-1973. 1
- Goshen School District No. 20 (Cass County, N.D.) 1
- Guthrie family. 1
- Guthrie, Eben George, 1861-1935. 1
- Hall, Charles Lemon, 1847-1940. 1
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- Hill, Cornelia Green. 1
- Hitchcock, Myrna Sharlow. 1
- Hunter School District No. 68 (Cass County, N.D.) 1
- Jardine, Agnes Bishop, 1883-1964. 1
- Johnson, Jennie M. 1
- Kroeze, Jeanette Gray, 1874-1981. 1
- Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002. 1
- Lough, M. S. (Maxon Spafford), 1886-1964. 1
- Lynch, Patrick, 1837-1918. 1
- Mark, John, 1882-1952. 1
- Morgan, Nora Fauchild. 1
- National Retired Teachers Association. 1
- Raaen family. 1
- Raaen, Aagot. 1
- Raaen, Ragnhild, 1839-1923. 1
- Raaen, Thomas, 1827-1903. 1
- Roan, T. T. (Tosten T.), 1879-1928. 1
- Rutledge, Alice, 1851-1909. 1
- Sackett, Leonard, 1901-1971. 1
- Slaughter, Linda W. (Linda Warfel), 1850-1920. 1
- Stoeser, E. (Nellie M. Lynch), 1871- 1
- Studness, Alma Mehus. 1
- Thorson, Laura. 1
- Wist, Benjamin. 1
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union of North Dakota. 1
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