Farm life -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 15 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.
Andrew H. Laughlin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 172
Abstract
Correspondence, diary (1917) of Laughlin's son, Leigh Laughlin, train passes, and clippings, chiefly relating to daily activities and local events.
Dates:
1894-1954
Anna Serum Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 645
Abstract
Typed summary of two interviews with Leonard Sackett. First interview (2 leaves) with Anna Serum mentions the death of her father, working for Rachel Holstrom, and some of the men employed at Grandin Farm. Second interview (1 leaf) with Amelia (Melting) Oien, Anna's sister, a cook for threshing crews at Grandin Farm No. 1, includes mention of her wages, her husband, Clark Oien, and their purchase of farmland near Halstad, Minn. Also includes commentary (2 leaves) on a photograph of Anna Serum,...
Dates:
1955-1956
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Anna Serum Interview
Besta : A Story of North Dakota Pioneers
Collection
Identifier: SC 583
Abstract
Photocopy of an article published serially in the Grand Forks herald. It contains the life of Karen (Erickson) Bakke, who settled in the Goose River Valley, Traill County, N.D. in 1871 with her Norwegian immigrant parents, Ole and Christiana Erickson. Includes mention of her early life in Wisconsin, moving to Mayville, N.D., living at Ft. Abraham Lincoln with her sister Emily, General Custer and his troops at Ft. Abraham Lincoln, meeting her husband, Ole Bakke, their wedding preparations,...
Dates:
1950-1951
Charles W. Fine Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 65
Abstract
Correspondence, reports, moratorium resolutions, and clippings, relating to Fine's career and his activities in North Dakota Farm Holiday Association and North Dakota Farmers Union; together with transcription (21 p.) of interview with Fine's wife, Tina (Otteson) Fine, concerning life on their farm.
Dates:
1924-1960
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Charles W. Fine 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
Frank J. Herman Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 119
Abstract
Correspondence, notes from three extensive interviews (original typed copies and carbon copy with corrections) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Grandin Farm near Grandin, N.D., J.L. Grandin, Guy Grandin, Herman's job as farm bookkeeper, farm housing, his wife Susan Morrow Herman, people and businesses in Halstad, Minn., and the steamboat "Grandin." Includes a detailed description of the Grandin Farm buildings and a map of the farm.
Dates:
1953-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Frank J. Herman Papers
Frank Wisnewski Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1928
Abstract
Typed family history concerning the Frank and Barbara (Brach) Wisnewski family. History begins about 1871 and ends in 1897. Includes mention of their early life in Pittsburgh, Pa., coming to N.D. in 1882, their sod house, the cold winters, carrying food supplies from Wahpeton, N.D., prairie fires, hauling wood to construct a roof, their children, working for area farmers, working on the railroad as it expanded, poverty in their early years, threshing, trading horses and oxen, adding rooms to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [197-?].
Jens Leum Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 193
Abstract
Correspondence with family members in Norway relating to daily life; letters from Gustav Amlund of the Normanden (Norwegian American newspaper) and S.A. Olsness; genealogical information on Leum family; land deed (1881) to Charles Moen; and clippings.
Dates:
1905-1954
Johanna Tvedt Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 1913
Abstract
Typed summary of interview concerning her trip to America and pioneer life in Nebraska and North Dakota. Includes mention of the poor shipboard conditions, her arrival at Kearney, Neb., her visits to Spalding, Neb. where her two brothers lived, working for her sister to repay her ticket, moving to N.D., farm life, sending their four children to school in Larimore, N.D., blind pigs in Larimore, and moonshine.
Dates:
1971