Special Collections Finding Aids

Abstract Active in local and national politics and was a delegate to the National Democratic Primary in 1956. The Irma Callahan of Fargo's papers from the late 1940s to the late 1960s cover national and state politics, particularly of the Democratic Party. The scrapbooks contain letters from hopeful presidential nominees and telegrams from presidential nominees such as Adlai Stevenson. They show how the political process works on the state and national levels and how the candidates vie for support...

Abstract The Irma Callahan photographs were received as part of her papers, which were processed separately as Mss 200. These prints document her active involvement in the Democratic Party and to a lesser extent her employment at the United States Internal Revenue Service. They span from the 1920s to the 1970s, with the majority of them dating from the 1950s and 1960s.