Interviews.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 192 Collections and/or Records:
A. G. Holstrom Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 153
Overview
Typed summaries of three detailed interviews. One interview (7 leaves) with Rachel Holstrom, widow of A.G., mentions her life at Grandin Farm No. 1, their servants, entertaining the Grandins, and winter vacations in California. Second interview (5 leaves) with Harry Holstrom, nephew of A.G. Holstrom, and his year working on the Grandin Farm, including harvest, laundry, livestock, and his own farm. Funeral book with photo of A.G. Holstrom included.
Dates:
1953-1954.
Alan W. Rice Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 761
Abstract
Letter with biographical information on Thomas M. Walker, typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett, concerning Thomas Walker and his family who lived near Grandin, N.D. Includes a biographical sketch of Walker, manager of Rand and Brown Farm and Alan Rice's uncle, separation of his parents, his brothers and sisters, growing up in Traill County, raising turkeys at Walker's farm, Blanche Walker, adopted daughter of Thomas and Agnes (Coughay) Walker, taking a bust of grandfather,...
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Alan W. Rice Papers
Albert Anderson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 1115
Abstract
Correspondence including two letters from John L. Grandin, typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his life, the Grandin farms, John Wyman, and W.H. Leazenby of St. Joseph, Mo., letters from Leonard Sackett to Mr. Anderson; legal and financial material relative to the Grandins and A.G. Holstrom. Legal and financial material includes land rental agreement, an inventory of farm equipment for the Grandin farm, 1921 income tax statement, and a trial balance sheet for...
Dates:
1918-1924, 1956-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Albert Anderson Papers
Albert Herberg Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 526
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview with Albert Herberg, regarding his father John Michael Thomassohn Herberg, early Norwegian immigrant settler, Grandin Farms, steamboat "Grandin", grain elevators, farm implements, A.R. Dalrymple. Includes a copy of his mother's, Magel Serina Thorson Herberg, obituary, and clipping of Herberg's own obituary.
Dates:
1955-1956.
Alex McKinnon Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 160
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (2 leaves) with Alex McKinnon and daughter Gladys concerning his association with Frank Lynch, rounding up Frank Lynch's horses, brief mention of a California lumber company in which McKinnon tried to convince L.B. Hanna to invest, farm machinery purchased by John S. Dalrymple, obituaries of Alex and Margaret Ford McKinnon and Frank Lynch Company letterhead.
Dates:
1954, 1964.
Alfred Aasland Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 655
Abstract
Typed summary of interview by Frank Herman and Leonard Sackett with Alfred Aasland concerning his father, Ole Aasland, who worked on the Grandin farm.
Dates:
1956.
Alfred N. Terry Interview
Item
Identifier: SC 244
Abstract
Interview with Alfred Terry, bookkeeper for the Dalrymple bonanza farm, Casselton, North Dakota.
Dates:
1954.
Andrew and Millie Melgard Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 274
Abstract
Typed summary of detailed interview (14 leaves) with Andrew and Minnie Melgard concerning his life, the Snake River Farm and its purchase, farm's first owner who was named Woodward, Minnie's purchasing food supplies in bulk, cooking for sixty-five hired men, cleaning the bunkhouses, making soap and butter, butchering hogs, raising eight children, her collapse from stress and a map of the farm.
Dates:
1954
Andrew Jespersen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 502
Abstract
Letter, typed interview summary (9 leaves) and copy with notations concerning the Park Farm, steam engines, death of his brother-in-law from a steam engine explosion, digging wells for water, military and Indian artifacts found on his land, tree planting, father Peter Jespersen. Also includes obituary of Jespersen.
Dates:
1954; 1959
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