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Collection: 10085 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Orin Grant Libby Papers
Date: 1738-1967
Summary: Documentation of Libby's professional and personal activities as Secretary of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Grand Historian of the North Dakota Masonic Grand Lodge, and Professor of History at the University of North Dakota. Records relating to the SHSND consist of correspondence, research materials, and notebooks. Correspondence includes subject files concerning administration of the agency, historical research, curatorial applications, and agency projects. Research materials consist of original and copies, including biographies, census and enumeration records, Civil War and World War I letters, diaries and journals, newspaper clippings, reports, documents, historical sketches, and notebooks. The research materials provide information on cities and counties, churches, fur trade, Indians, military expeditions and forts, and transportation. Notebooks detail travel, activities, and accounts while conducting agency business. Records relating to Libby's activities as Professor of History at the University of North Dakota, 1908-1919, consist of correspondence with other faculty regarding University matters. Records relating to Libby's position as Grand Historian of the North Dakota Masonic Grand Lodge consist of correspondence, notes, and documents relating to Masonic history in North Dakota.
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