Railroads -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Adolph Ed Seaburg Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1062
Overview
Danish-American locomotive engineer for Northern Pacific Railway Company, of Fargo, N.D.; also known as Ed Seaburg. Correspondence relating to Willis H. Downs, of Jamestown, N.D., Downs's activities with North Dakota Volunteers, 1st Infantry Regiment, Company H, in the Philippines during the Spanish American War, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1906, and to Seaburg's father, Nels Seaburg, including World War I correspondence; funeral book; pamphlets; program (1910) of...
Dates:
1900-1960.
Amenia and Sharon Land Company Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 134-Mss 1596.2-Oversize Collection 11
Abstract
The Company was a Cass County Bonanza farm managed and later owned by the late Chaffee family. The collection consists of company records, its subsidiaries, and persons involved.
Dates:
1856-1967
Edward P. Wells Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 135
Abstract
Built the first house in Jamestown, ND and his scrapbooks nicely document the early political situation in North Dakota.
Dates:
1882-1941
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Edward P. Wells Papers
Fargo and Southern Railroad Company Journal
Collection
Identifier: SC 72
Abstract
Journal kept by Charles Sweatt, treasurer, containing financial transactions for Aug. 24, 1881 to Aug. 3, 1882; and list of original shareholders, containing numbers of shares and amounts invested and map showing the proposed Fargo and Southern and other Fargo railroads.
Dates:
1881-1882
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-?].
J.B. (James Buel) Power Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 309
Abstract
Power was a Northern Pacific land agent and farmer. The collection contains 14 volumes of indexed correspondence that give valuable information on the inside operation of the railroads and the opening of agricultural lands in North Dakota. The collection also contains material related to Power's farm at Helendale and the early settlement of the Red River Valley.
Dates:
1872-1930
Midland Continental Railroad Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 370
Abstract
Newspaper clippings and a photocopy of an article entitled "Death of a railroad" (5 leaves) by Stewart Mitchell; one clipping is from January 2, 1913 Courtenay gazette (Courtenay, N.D.) and one is from Jan. 26, 1969 Fargo forum.
Dates:
1913, 1969-1970.
Soo Line Railroad Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: Oversize 7
Abstract
Collection of architectural drawings of the dining car employee building at Enderlin, depots, ice house, cattle shute related to the Soo Line, maps showing the rail lines through a number of North Dakota towns, including Enderlin, Fairmount, Max, Wilton, Wishek, Devils Lakes, Drake, Hankinson, Harvey, Kensal and Minot, N.D., and elevation maps of several Soo railroad lines. Also includes a corporate history chart of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co. (1916) and color...
Dates:
1906-2000.
Soo Line Railroad Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2121
Abstract
John Gjevre’s Soo Railroad Line Photograph Collection contains images from 1908-1993. Some of the images are featured in Saga of the Soo by John Gjevre, 1st edition and 2nd edition, volumes I and II.
Dates:
1905-1993.
The Early History of Mohall, North Dakota
Collection
Identifier: SC 598
Abstract
Photocopy of her typed history of Mohall, N.D. founded in 1901 by M.O. Hall, in Renville County. The four chapters are: 1. "Physiography of the Mouse River Loop, North Dakota," 2. "The founding of Mohall," 3. "The coming of the railroad," and 4. "The reorganization of Renville County." The history generally covers through 1903 except the county reorganization which goes to 1910. Chapters include a description of the area, and mention blizzards, floods and the effect on travel from Minot, N.D.,...
Dates:
[1923?]