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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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Arthur G. Divet Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 69
Abstract
Pamphlet on the Brookside Farm at Wahpeton, N.D. owned by Mr. Divet and W.E. Purcell; and newspaper clippings, regarding his life and on "The Divet Story," published in the Fargo Forum newspaper in 1950.
Dates:
1922-1950
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Bagg Bonanza Farm Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 52
Abstract
Brochure, correspondence, clippings, and "Bonanza farm bulletin" newsletter, all issued by the Bonanza Farm Historic Preservation Society. Brochure includes a map of the farm with location of existing buildings and some that have been torn down. Clipping includes mention of the threshing crews, feeding them, the farm buildings, the Society's efforts to preserve the farm, and Ella Bagg Egenes, daughter of F.A. Bagg.
Dates:
1987-
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Fairview Farm Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 240
Abstract
Letter, short interview (1 leaf) with Joseph Hoffman who worked on the farm, newspaper clippings, several regarding Adams' farm near Odebolt, Iowa, and photocopies of biographical material on W.P. Adams and his father J.Q. Adams.
Dates:
1915-1960
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Einar A. Hagen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 858
Abstract
Typed summary of interview concerning his pioneer father, Tobias Hagen, a Norwegian immigrant from Hadeland, Norway, Allie Power, and working on the Helendale Farm. Newspaper clipping about his sawmill included.
Dates:
1956-1957
Found in:
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Fort Abercrombie Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 400
Abstract
Pamphlets and newspaper clippings including one on the cemetery listing soldiers, Indians, and children of military personnel buried there. Fort site has been restored and is a state park.
Dates:
1926-1962
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Frank B. Power Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 494
Abstract
Interview and corrections (13 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his recollections of J.B. Power and Helendale Farm, corrections by Ethelwyn Power. Includes mention of birth and death dates of J.B. Power's children: Charles M., George, Helen, and twins, James A. and Clara, Helen's death at boarding school, J.B.'s brother, William, J.B.'s employment with Northern Pacific Railroad, some history of Helendale Farm, J.B. Power's financial losses, description of farm buildings especially the...
Dates:
1956
Found in:
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George Vangsness Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 670
Abstract
Contains a typed summary of an interview George did with Leonard Sackett and one newspaper clipping.
Dates:
1956
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Herman Deike Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 259
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) concerning the Fairview Farm, also known as the Adams Farm, which he and a group of Iowans purchased in 1920, and obituaries of Mr and Mrs. Deike.
Dates:
1954-1965
Found in:
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Jacob J. Lawrence Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 439
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of detailed interview (6 leaves) and corrections with wife Rosa Hofner Lawrence and daughter Ruth, concerning Rosa's parents, John Hofner (1849-1900), German immigrant from the Rhine River Valley and Louisa Eppell Hofner (1853-1921), her husband, Jacob, her work as nurse to Dr. Langsdale, with brief mention of Ruth's doctoral studies at Columbia, and a souvenir of School District No. 3, Center Township, Richland County (N.D.) for 1896-1867.
Dates:
1897, 1935, 1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Adams, John Quincy, 1824-1899. 2
- Dwight Farm and Land Company (Dwight, N.D.) 2
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