Farm buildings -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Nelson Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 53
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) concerning his attempts at farming and his years as manager of the Howe Farm. Includes description of the buildings on the farm, the horses, and the field work. Also includes newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1953-1957
Emil G. Trapp Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 827
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, August, who was a laborer on the Watson farm and the August F. Luther farm in Cass County, N.D. Includes mention of the L.F. Watson farm, its buildings, and various hired men, dispersal sale of the Watson farm, August Trapp's last wages, his purchase of farmland near Enderlin, N.D., threshing equipment, Emil's job as stableboy and assistant to the laundress at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, comments on...
Dates:
1957-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Emil G. Trapp Papers
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
George W. Tracy Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 437
Abstract
Two detailed interviews (17 leaves and 9 leaves) with Leonard Sackett decribing the Tracy family's experiences at Amenia and Sharon farm, with mention of the farm buildings, other hired men, poor quality food, E.W. Chaffee's rules for hired men, their departure from Amenia and Sharon, George farming at Hunter, N.D., his move to Emmons County, N.D., his freight hauling business and sheep ranch, the Spicer family murders and the ensuing lynching. Typed copy of pamphlet "The Win Tracy story" (14...
Dates:
1955-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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George W. Tracy Papers
John McDougall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 348
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with John and Dora (Lathrop) McDougall concerning their fathers, John McDougall and Murrilow Dow Lathrop, and their work on the Antelope Farm, Dora's job as clerk, bookkeeper, and barber at the Antelope Farm store, mention of other Lathrop family members including M.D.'s wife, his brother Vernon, and LeRoy Smith, Dora's cousin, a horse named Old Billy previously used by the Minneapolis Fire Department, hog butchering, the crops and equipment, a drawing of...
Dates:
1923, 1955
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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John McDougall Papers
Neil McFarlane Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 664
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) mentioning McFarlane's uncle, Henry C. Lyon, foreman and manager of Rand and Brown Farm (1881-1882), John Elliot who followed Lyon as foreman, a description of Rand and Brown Farm's location, General Thomas M. Walker, a Civil War veteran from Erie, Penn., who managed the Rand and Brown Farm and later bought his own farm, a brief mention of his wife Agnes Coughey Walker, a description of the Rand and Brown Farm buildings including the grain elevators, and...
Dates:
1896, 1956.
Norvin Ovrom Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 573
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (10 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the period his family lived at Clifford, N.D. Includes mention of his father, Waldemar, a Norwegian immigrant who worked as a store clerk in Wisconsin, later managed a general store owned by Anton Kraabel in Clifford, N.D., store robberies and fires in Clifford, Waldemar's own store and post office, his drugstore business, early businessmen in Clifford, installing early telephone lines in Clifford, N.D., description of...
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Norvin Ovrom Papers
Ralph L. Miller, Fernando and Clara Alice Reimers Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 276
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Fernando and Clara Alice Reimers and Ralph L. Miller concerning the Carrington & Casey Land Company, with mention of her parents, William and Georgia Walters, the hotel they managed in Melville, N.D., George D. Palmer, Carrington & Casey Ranch manager, his wife Susie who baked bread in large quantities, L.B. Hibbard, sale of some aged Carrington and Casey Ranch mules, L.B. and Robert Hanna managing the ranch, and a description of the ranch buildings....
Dates:
1954.
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.