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Casselton, N.D., Community Surveys
Collection
Identifier: Mss 264
Scope and Contents
Questionnaires (1924) and survey team reports compiled on Casselton, N.D., a Cass County community, in connection with the Institute of Social and Religious Research's series entitled American village studies; together with follow-up studies (1929, 1936) by Donald G. Hay of North Dakota Agricultural College. Includes detailed statistical and descriptive information relating to the population, social groups, agricultural conditions, banking, health, library, civic and social life, churches, and...
Dates:
1924-1936
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Critchfield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 210
Abstract
North Dakota family that spent time in Iowa and Germany and wrote numerous letters to each other.
Dates:
1937-1994
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Crosby, North Dakota Survey
Collection
Identifier: Mss 73
Abstract
Survey completed by Althea Varnum Reed as a project at North Dakota Agricultural College, including questionnaires, maps, clippings (1 v.), and photos. Subjects include history, pioneer experiences, schools, farming, athletics, exhibits, music, social functions, and organizations.
Dates:
1928-1971
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Folklore Collection of Dr. Timothy J. Kloberdanz and his NDSU Students
Collection
Identifier: Mss 146
Scope and Contents
The Folklore Collection of Dr. Timothy J. Kloberdanz and His NDSU Students represents over thirty years of NDSU students collecting and documenting specific examples of oral, customary, and material-based folkways as part of the academic course ‗Folklore and Culture‘ (Anthropology 196, Anthropology 212, later Anthropology 208) taught by Dr. Timothy J. Kloberdanz. This collection of well over 10,000 items recognizes and celebrates the rich folk heritage of North Dakota and the entire Northern...
Dates:
1977-2010
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Grafton, N.D. Community Surveys
Collection
Identifier: Mss 266
Abstract
Questionnaire reports (1924) compiled on Grafton, N.D., community in Walsh County, in connection with the Institute of Social and Religious Research's series entitled American village studies; together with follow-up studies (1930, 1936) by Lynn Smith and J.A. McCrae, of University of North Dakota. Includes detailed statistical and descriptive information relating to the population, social groups, agriculture, banking, health, library, civic and social life, churches, and schools.
Dates:
1924-1936
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Harry Jennings Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo Folio 78-Photo 2078
Abstract
Jennings's photographic work consists primarily of social scenes, nature, personages and events that were taken for potential publication in the Fargo Forum newspaper. Among the more well-known persons represented are Mark Andrews, Jack Benny, William Guy, Robert Kennedy, William Langer, Arthur Link, Richard Nixon, Olav King of Norway and Bobby Vee. Some of the largest subject headings include accidents, automobiles, barns, Bonanzaville USA, children, farming, Forum Publishing Company, North...
Dates:
1950s-1979
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Hunting on the Island Column
Collection
Identifier: SC 796
Abstract
Series of 52 weekly articles written by Ward and published in the Benson County Farmers Press newspaper in 2005 and 2006. Inventory of the articles compiled by Ward list the genre as 'memoir, seasoned with nostalgia.' Some of the topics include Minnewaukan & Graham's Island, the Ward family, the 1940s and 1950s, farming, cattle, people, and buildings. Holidays, books, sports and sin. They are written in serious, funny and sentimental tones.
Dates:
2005-2006
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Irene (Bender) Schauer Collection
Collection
Identifier: GRHC 025
Summary
A collection of photographs ranging from family portraits to snapshots and newspaper clippings, mainly from the Ashley Tribune “Down Memory Lane” published during the 1970s.
Dates:
1883 - 1984
Found in:
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection
North Dakota Centenarian Study Interviews
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3101
Abstract
The North Dakota Centenarian Study Interviews consists of seven video interviews, done as a grant-funded project administered by Dr. Greg Sanders of the NDSU Department of Child Development and Family Science, and Candace Philbrick conducted the actual interviews. Each interview, conducted in 1999, consists of a single VHS tape Those interviewed include Katherine Fallett, Hilda Jacobson, Jeanette Kennedy,William Mueller,Hazel Patton, Belle Thomas, and Grace H. Wahl.
Dates:
1999.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Oakes, N.D., Community Surveys
Collection
Identifier: Mss 265
Abstract
Questionnaire reports (1924) compiled on Oakes, N.D., community in Dickey County, in connection with the Institute of Social and Religious Research's series entitled American village studies; together with follow-up studies (1930, 1936) by Lynn Smith and J.A. McCrae, University of North Dakota. Includes detailed statistical and descriptive information relating to the population, social groups, agriculture, banking, health, library, civic and social life, churches, and schools.
Dates:
1924-1936.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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