OGLMC. Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection

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1890-1966; Wesley College faculty member and music composer

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1884-1960; UND Class of 1906 and 1907. Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1921-1933, and District Court Judge, 1950-1960. Burtness Theater named in his honor, following a $100,000 donation by his widow, Zoe Burtness

Scope and Contents The City of Grand Forks Mayor's Office Scrapbooks consist of eighteen scrapbooks, compiled by Pat Owens, of newspaper articles dating from February 1976 - June 1987. This period of time includes the administrations of Mayor C. P. O'Neill (1972-1980) and H. C. "Bud" Wessman (1980-1988). The articles represent all the different levels of Grand Forks city government. The broad range of topics include: all city elections, city council meetings, city development projects, economic development,...

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Assorted materials from a 1928 graduate of the University of North Dakota.

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1906-1988; scrapbook documenting his time as a student at UND, 1923-1926

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Contains records, scrapbooks, event programs, and other items related to the activities and history of the Willis A. Gorman Post 6 and the Willis A. Gorman Woman's Relief Corps # 2.

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Constructed in 1892 in Grand Forks

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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1905-1990; Immigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1928

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1980-1990; Family newsletter published by Louis and Mary Ellen Veigel of Dickinson, North Dakota