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Agricultural laborers -- North Dakota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

James Henry Carter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 330
Overview Contains correspondence discussing a Southeastern North Dakota family.
Dates: 1955.

James Scott Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC-301
Overview Contains the interview notes from the Leonard Sackett interivew and newspaper clippings.
Dates: 1905-1958.

John Beattie Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 476
Abstract Two ledgers containing wage accounts of farm employees and records of personal property sale, financial records, land deeds, and Beattie's obituary.
Dates: 1893-1952

John L. Walcher Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 241
Abstract Typed summary of interview (11 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Adams Farm (also known as Fairview Farm) and Elk Valley Farm. Includes mention of his father, John Walcher, a German immigrant, who hauled freight in Minnesota, moved to Sargent County, N.D. in 1885 to farm, later moving to Sauk Center, Minn. to manage a hotel, son John L. working at Elk Valley Farm, plowing with mules, being struck by lightning, Deering grain binders, carpentering at Adams Farm, W.P. and Mrs. Adams,...
Dates: 1954, 1968

Lars Anderson Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 518
Abstract Typed summary of an interview with Leonard Sackett concerning James B. Power, the Helendale Farm and its operations, buildings, livestock, Power's son Allie and his banking career, as well as Mr. Anderson's obituary.
Dates: 1954.

Lucien A. Barnes Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 189
Abstract The collection documents a farm family that settled in Cass County near Fargo and consists of a wide variety of family documents.
Dates: 1853-1955.

Marguerite Ferguson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 512
Abstract Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Marguerite Ferguson, concerning her parents, Philip and Mary Weisbecker, who moved from New York to Moorhead, Minn., then to Grandin, N.D. where they bought a hotel. Includes mention of the first business establishments in Grandin, additions to the hotel, cooking for threshing crews, boarding farm workers during the winter, Lynn Ferguson, Marguerite's son and farm manager for John S. Dalrymple. Also includes clippings.
Dates: 1954, 1958.

Nels Swenson Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1198
Abstract Correspondence concerning the cost of a college education with reference to the children of Lineus Peterson, one of whom Swenson helped through college, working on the Adams Farm, and a newspaper clipping.
Dates: 1959.

Ole Jordet Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 440
Abstract Typed summary and corrected carbon copy of interview (4 leaves) with Jordet and daughter Caroline Jordet Hatlen concerning his life in North Dakota. Includes obituary of son Albert Jordet. It includes a photograph olf old farm in Norway.
Dates: 1954-1955.

Oliver Almlie Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 874
Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Engebredt Almlie, and himself, both of whom worked on the Helendale farm of J.B. Power.
Dates: 1957.