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Overview Danish-American locomotive engineer for Northern Pacific Railway Company, of Fargo, N.D.; also known as Ed Seaburg. Correspondence relating to Willis H. Downs, of Jamestown, N.D., Downs's activities with North Dakota Volunteers, 1st Infantry Regiment, Company H, in the Philippines during the Spanish American War, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1906, and to Seaburg's father, Nels Seaburg, including World War I correspondence; funeral book; pamphlets; program (1910) of...

Abstract The Frank L. Anders Photograph Collection is the amalgamation of two separate donations by his children. The first donation in 1966 was part of an extensive manuscript collection that was processed as Mss 1417. These images generally document Anders' involvement with the building of the North Dakota capitol in the 1930s. The later images were donated by his daughter in 1996 and are primarily related to Camp Grafton, home of the North Dakota National Guard.

Abstract From 1931 to 1933, General Fraser also served on the Board of State Capitol Commissioners which directed the construction of the new capitol in Bismarck.

Abstract Letters, rosters of North Dakota guardsmen in action during World War II, newsletters, typed copy of Fargo forum article on the Dakota Territory National Guard, "History of the National Guard in North Dakota" (6 leaves), newspaper clippings pertaining to guard activity in the Philippines during the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, especially Guadalcanal, and activity after World War II.

Abstract Scrapbook (compiler unknown) of newspaper clippings relating to the North Dakota Infantry and its part in the Spanish-American War. Clippings follow the troop's movements to the Pacific Coast and the trip to the Philippines. Includes some personal correspondence reprinted in the newspaper.