June Kraft (center) presents pen-pal letters to the Lighthouse Director (left) from 4-H Club members in the Bismarck area. To the left is translator Elvira Zahorava, Odessa Intourist.

Deacon Alexander Chumakov thanks the American members for their gifts surrounded by the children.

Two boys hold one of the quilts.

The collection consists of correspondence and writings, including The Man Behind the Plow, a family history of pioneer life in Minnesota.

Original typed copy of the manuscript for his published book, The country boy, which concerns farm life in the early 20th century near Donnelly in Stevens County, Minn.

Oscar Will homestead near Bismarck, ND and focused his attention on the seed and nursery business. His seed company, Oscar H. Will & Co., was the first nursery in North Dakota. The collection consists of various biographical ...

Correspondence, including letters (1931) to Sam Shevchenko of Buxton, from relatives in the Ukraine describing the famine there; copies of speeches; pamphlets; scrapbook, containing several letters from L.B. Hanna and ...

Mimeograph collection of his poetry written while a patient at the Jamestown State Hospital with accompanying letter. Most published in his "Sonnets from the unshackled heart."

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings relating to Sougstad's family, local politics and events in Northwood, and his involvement in the Philippines during the Spanish American War; and his obituary.