OGLMC. Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection

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The collection contains a series of pamphlets regardng various political, economic, social, and strategic aspects of the two world wars.

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Women's faculty organization at the University of North Dakota, 1925-1949

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Group formed in 1982 to promote peace and protest nuclear weapons

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Women's organization in Hankinson, North Dakota

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1890-1971; Commander of the North Dakota American Legion in 1934 and National Commander of the American Legion, 1941; Independent candidate for the United States Senate in 1944

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Pearl Young was a 1919 UND graduate and the first female professional to work for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA.

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Honorary art society for men and women, active on campus from 1922 until 1960

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...

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1908-1984; long-time resident of Grand Forks

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Catholic Academy and High School, 1914-1969