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Rural schools -- North Dakota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Anne Walters Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 171-Mss 1596.1
Abstract A prized playwright and dramatist from Webster, North Dakota who wrote several full length plays and books. Includes her works 'Choice' which is the story of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and 'I Remember, I Remember,' a story of a North Dakota childhood. There are also her poetry files, numerous manuscript stories. The 'Anecdotage' manuscript documents memories of a North Dakota childhood which include homesteading, prairie schooner, the threshers, a country school,...
Dates: 1910-1984

Carl M. Grimstad Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 162
Abstract Carl Grimstad was a Walsh County, ND pioneer. The collection consists of a handwritten copy of his manuscript "Life in Dakota Territory, from 1879 to 1887," concerning his experience as a pioneer settler in Walsh County.
Dates: 1927-1932

Eva Nelson Memoirs

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Identifier: Mss 218
Abstract After teaching for thirty years in North Dakota, Eva Nelson wrote her memoirs, starting with her earliest recollections and continue in great detail until 1940. From 1940 to the late 1950s, she provides highlights of her activities rather than the detailed description of everyday life found in the first narratives. In the last three chapters of her narrative, Eva gives a synopsis of her life from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s. She used her diaries, surviving letters, and her memory to create...
Dates: 1914-1998

Historical Sketches of the Stoa Family Records

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Identifier: SC 1154
Abstract Collection of three sketches written by his sons and second wife, Ida, concerning the Stoa family in Norway, immigrating to America, and life in America. Sketches are entitled: "Elling J. Stoa (1855-1921), an introduction to a brief write-up of a Traill County (North Dakota) pioneer, Elling J. Stoa and his family," (3 leaves) compiled by Theodore E. Stoa; "Incidents from pioneer days, Stoa Clan," (20 leaves) by J.E. Stoa; "Contributions to the family history," (12 leaves) by Mother [Ida Karine...
Dates: 1961

Jennie M. Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 951
Abstract Letters of recommendation, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd grade teacher certificates, and teacher contracts from Hunter, Buffalo, and Goshen school districts (Cass County, N.D.) and a clipping of a poem by Laura Thorson, Mayville, N.D., titled "Fair prairie state."
Dates: 1890-1893

Peter J. Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1723
Abstract Letters, typed copy of his family reminiscence entitled "Dakota days of years ago," (38 leaves) and a newspaper clipping. Reminiscence includes mention of his family homestead in Cavalier County, a blizzard, pioneer days near Pembina, N.D., people and equipment involved in threshing, digging water wells, Olga, Bathgate, Beaulieu, and Walhalla, N.D., country school, churches, hunting, horses and horse-drawn vehicles, and removing tree stumps.
Dates: 1950-1965.

Reminiscences of the Early Eighties in Dakota

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Identifier: SC 718
Abstract Typed reminiscences concerning her parents, Daniel and Cynthia Folger, who moved to Niagara, N.D. from Lockport, N.Y. Includes mention of native flowers and wildlife, early crops, blizzards, her father's trips to Larimore, N.D. for supplies, the death of Chris Severson, a neighbor, a picnic on July 4, 1882 at Bachelor's Grove, 1883 New Year's Eve party, the first school teacher, Cella Rossiter, and the 1885 wheat harvest. Note: this writing may be one of fiction.
Dates: 1900.

Saga of a Prairie Teacher

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Identifier: SC 227
Abstract Galley proof of her book, Saga of a prairie teacher, which includes mention of her family, life in Minnesota, her father's drinking, moving to North Dakota, the death of a sister and a brother, her teaching experiences in Grand Forks County rural schools and in Williston, N.D. public school, attending college at Mayville and Valley City, N.D., her operation and convalescence in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and traveling after her retirement from teaching.
Dates: [1950?].

Stanley School District No. 42 Records

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Identifier: Mss 102
Abstract The Stanley School District No. 42 was located in Section 36, Stanley Township, Cass County. Included are Teachers' registers (1917-1932) of School No. 66, listing students, attendance, grades, daily program, textbooks, library books, and visitors; treasurers' records (1911-1930); and miscellaneous documents.
Dates: 1902-1932.