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Agricultural laborers -- North Dakota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Oscar P. Bakke Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 756
Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his father Oscar Bakke, a Norwegian immigrant, young Oscar's trapping and working on the Helendale Farm.
Dates: 1956.

Perry Burton Diary

 Collection
Identifier: SC 42
Abstract This pocket diary documents the period Mr. Burton possibly was working on the Pete Smith farm near Larimore, N.D. and Arvilla, N.D. The diary for the entire year is quite complete, detailing his daily activities. For part of the year, there is a listing of his expenditures as well.
Dates: 1885.

Peter Brooks Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 758
Abstract Typed summary of an interview (7 leaves) and corrections (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father James Brooks who homesteaded in Traill County, and worked on the Grandin farm; and his obituary.
Dates: 1956, 1960.

Peter J. Walburg Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 498
Abstract Letter, typed summary of interview (15 leaves) concerning J.B. Power, Helendale Farm, Amenia and Sharon Land Company, and his father Peter Walburg, a Swiss immigrant. Includes mention of their homestead near the Maple River, his work on Dalrymple No. 1 Farm, son Peter's first jobs as mule driver, choreboy, and herding horses for the Dalrymples, cutting wood at Helendale Farm, his father, and later Martin Hanson, hauling mail, Helendale Farm's soil, selling out and moving to Leonard, N.D.,...
Dates: 1955.

Thomas Thompson Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 468
Overview Electrostatic copy of a work agreement, dated March 28, 1887 and signed by A.R. Dalrymple at Hague, N.D., of Thomas Thompson to work as a hired man and his wife as a cook for Grandin Farms, states their wages and other conditions of employment, brief interview (1 leaf) with Thora and Martha Thompson, daughters of Thomas Thompson, which includes brief mention of A.R. Dalrymple and his daughters. Also includes Thompson's obituary
Dates: 1887, 1925, 1955-1956.

William Keating Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 350
Overview This collection contains correspondence and interviews with William Keating's sons John Keating and Peter Keating.
Dates: 1925-1963.

William P. Sebens Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: SC 520
Abstract Interviews related to William P. Sebens, and farming concerns related to his friend, Fred Bagg, as well as the Adams Farm, (also known as the Fairview Farm) owned by W. P. Adams family at Mooreton, N.D. Includes his experimenting with sweet clover, threshing, his formula on getting the most from laborers, and planting flax.
Dates: 1955.