Moorhead (Minn.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Burr Boatman Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 587
Abstract
Letter from his sister Mrs. George Wright to Leonard Sackett, a typed summary of an interview with Sackett (4 leaves), concerning his father R.P. (Robert Porter) Boatman, the Loring Farm, and B.B. Boatman's employment with Northwestern Bell Telephone, and obituaries of B.B. Boatman and his sister.
Dates:
1956, 1960
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Burr Boatman Papers
Fargo-Moorhead Open Forum Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 75
Abstract
Public speaker forum that began as an adult education program spanning the years 1930 to 1967 and attracted speakers such as Eleanor Roosevelt.
Dates:
1936-1967
Francis Lewis Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 103
Abstract
Notarized photograph of 1872 list of birthdates for Francis and Maria E. Manchester Lewis' children; includes Lucinda C. Moulton, second wife of Francis Lewis and their children also. Typed copy of interview and corrections with T.I. Lewis, contains mention of his brothers, Arthur and Albert, their Davenport, N.D. grocery store, their partnership with James Yoder of Fargo, Addison Leech, James Kennedy, T.I.'s career as a watchmaker and jeweler and later as a representative of Griggs Cooper,...
Dates:
1872, 1950-1964
James B. Blanchard Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: SC 29
Abstract
Slightly illegible typed copy of his reminiscences concerning the early days of Moorhead, his logging career, and incidents related to his job as a law officer in Moorhead, Minn.
Dates:
1917
King Olav of Norway Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1020
Abstract
Programs from the 1939 visit of Crown Prince Ola v and Crown Princess Martha of Norway to Fargo, N.D. and Moorhead, Minn. Programs and a schedule for the 1982 visit of King Olav.
Dates:
1939, 1982.
Madalyn Kuhn Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 214
Abstract
The Madalyn Kuhn Papers contains her diaries while living in the Lisbon and Fargo-West Fargo, N.D. area. She kept a daily diary from 1932, when the author was 14, through 2000. From a researcher’s point of view, the diaries offer invaluable information on life in North Dakota, growing up in the 1930s, teen issues, social life, entertainment (especially movies), fashion, finances, diet and nutrition, dating, working conditions for single women, widowhood, single mother issues, and weather. The...
Dates:
1932-2000.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Madalyn Kuhn Papers
Ole Peter Wiig Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 456
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Ole Peter and Martha Wiig concerning his life at Lake Park and Perley, Minn. Includes mention of his first jobs in Lake Park, Minn. as a laborer and a farm worker, working on the Walker farm, his wife's job as Walker Farm cook, their wages, their experiences owning a farm and later, owning a hotel in Perley, Minn. Also includes clippings.
Dates:
1950, 1954-1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Ole Peter Wiig Papers
Peter A. Lundwall Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 211
Abstract
Family history material, interview with Earl and Beatrice Lundwall Elwell, mention of the Chaffee family, especially of H.F. Chaffee, his wife, Carrie Toogood Chaffee, various jobs Earl held at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, electrostatic copy of Peter A. Lundwall's citizenship certificate (1894), and newspaper clippings on various family members.
Dates:
1932-1952.
Peter Schickele Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 660
Abstract
Newspaper clippings dealing with his career and P.D.Q. Bach. Includes an explanation of the fictional composer, P.D.Q. Bach, reviews of his 1979 concert at Concordia College Memorial Auditorium, Moorhead, Minn., a concert program from a 1961 concert at Central High School, Fargo, N.D. Also includes a flier for a 1970 concert held at Concordia College Memorial Stadium and other clippings.
Dates:
1960-1979.
Prairie Community Design Center Newsletters
Collection
Identifier: SC 1015
Abstract
Copy of its newsletters, On the boards, and Prairie CDC newsletter. Newsletters describe the Center's purpose, its current and future projects in North Dakota and Moorhead, Minn. Includes staff news.
Dates:
1974, 1977.