Abstract Notebook of handwritten entries listing performances in Fargo Opera House (1896-1911), Grand Theater, referred to as Grand Opera House in notebook, (1906-1911), The Bijou (1908-1911), The Ideal (1908-1909), and Savoy Theater (1910-1911). Performances included musicians, singers, magicians, dancers, and skits. Entry for Fargo Opera House includes seating capacity and prices for various seating sections. Also includes a postcard from Scott Leslie to Emil Jurgens, Medford, Oregon, and a...

Scope and Contents The Fargo Opera House programs, entitled The Theatre, were produced from the opening in 1894 till it was destroyed by fire in 1912. The Institute holdings contain the years 1899-1911. The seasons of 18991900, 1903-1904, 1904-1905, 1905-1906, 1906-1907, 1907-1908, 1908-1909, 1909-1910 and 1910-1911 are complete and in leather bound books likely produced by Walker Brothers printing firm. The remaining years are loose leaf and very incomplete. The Mary Darrow Weible Collection (Mss 620) contains...

Abstract One of the first women graduates from North Dakota Agricultural College who was involved in the Fargo Opera House. Her small collection of papers include several newspaper clippings on Mrs. Weible well as her mother's obituary and her brother, Frank's. The interview by Leonard Sackett in 1956 concerns the Weible family and their farm at Hunter, N.D. as well as on Dr. Ralph E. Weible and the Darrow family.