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Collection: C - C Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1617-00001
Title: Elwyn B. Robinson teaching his last history class at the University of North Dakota
Date: 05/27/1970
Creator: Olson, Jerry--(Gerald Don),--1941-2003
Inscription/Marks: Dr. Elwyn B. Robinson, University Professor of history at the University of Notth Dakota, Grand Forks, completed 35 years of teaching at UND when he lectured to this class in North Dakota History at the close of the second semester (May 27). Since joing the UND faculty in 1935, he has taught more than 5,000 students, sometimes 200 a semester. He received UND's Distinguished Teacher Award in 1959. His history of North Dakota, now in its second printing, has sold more than 9,000 copies. From now on he will devote his efforts to writing a two-volume history of the Great Plains. [Personal Information] Dr. Elwyn Burns Robinson [13 Oct 1905-24 Mar 1985], University Professor, History, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D. Dr. Elwyn B. Robinson was born at Russell, Ohio, and received his elementary and secondary schooling at Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He earned the B. A. Oberlin College, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Robinson taught at high schools at New Lyme, Ohio, and Akron, Ohio, and was a graduate assistant at Western Reserve University for two years. He came to the University of North Dakota 1935. Dr. Robinson was promoted to the rank of professor in 1951 and received the honorary title of "University Professor" in April 1967. He received the Distinguished Teacher award in 1959. Dr. Robinson's book "History of North Dakota" is the first comprehensive history of the state and is the result of 20 years of research. He was the author for some years of the annual article on North Dakota for the Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year and a portion of his Ph.D. dissertation on the preses of Philadelphia during the Civil War was published by the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Dr. Robinson has also given radio talks on heroes of Dakota for KFJM, the UND broadcasting service. At UND he has served on the graduate, library and curriculum committees. He is a member and secretary of the State Historical Board, member of teh American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He has been active in church activities. Dr. Robinson served on the Lewis and Clark Sesquicentennial Committee, Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission and the Dakota Territorial Centennial Commission. He is listed in the Directory of American Scholars and Who's Who in North Dakota. Dr. Robinson is married and has two sons.
Summary: Students listen as Dr. Robinson lectures in classroom
Red ID: PH_I_109743 Image ID: 146664 Image Notes: C1617-00001

Collection: C Digitized Images from Collection
Title: C Collection
Date: ca. 1836-1960

Summary: At some point in time the State Historical Society separated photographs into collections by size. The A collection consists of items 4 X 5” or less, the B collection consists of items 5 X 7” or less, the C collection consists of items 8 X 10” or less, the D collection consists of items 11 X 14” or less, and the E collection consists of items larger than 11 X 14”.

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