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Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0839-00001
Title: Orin Grant Libby at his desk
Date: 1930
Creator: University of North Dakota News Bureau
Inscription/Marks: [back of print] B0839-00001 Reprint by UND NEWS BUREAU. PS 973. FOR OFFICE USE ONLY U.N.D. FOTO FILE. CLASS Libby, Orrin. Group. X Biography. Other.
Summary: Orin G. Libby sits at a desk with pen in hand. The desk is covered with papers and a bookshelf can be seen in the background. Orin G. Libby was born in Hammond, Wis., June 9, 1864 and graduated from the Wisconsin State Normal School in River Falls in 1886. Dr. Libby received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1895. He married Eva Gertrude Cory on Sept. 12, 1900. They moved to Grand Forks, N.D., in 1902, where Dr. Libby worked as Professor of History at the University of North Dakota until 1945. In May, 1905, Dr. Libby sponsored the organization of the North Dakota State Historical Society, and became its first Secretary, serving until 1945. For forty years he was the editor and principal contributor to the Society's two official publications, Historical Collections and the North Dakota Historical Quarterly. Dr. Libby retired from UND in 1945 and died on March 29, 1952. [Source: Shafer, George F., Dr. Orin Grant Libby, North Dakota History 12 (1945): 107-110.]
Red ID: PH_I_90413 Image ID: 50151 Image Notes: B0839-00001

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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Collection Summary
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0839-00001
Title: Orin Grant Libby at his desk
Date: 1930
Creator: University of North Dakota News Bureau
Inscription/Marks: [back of print] B0839-00001 Reprint by UND NEWS BUREAU. PS 973. FOR OFFICE USE ONLY U.N.D. FOTO FILE. CLASS Libby, Orrin. Group. X Biography. Other.
Summary: Orin G. Libby sits at a desk with pen in hand. The desk is covered with papers and a bookshelf can be seen in the background. Orin G. Libby was born in Hammond, Wis., June 9, 1864 and graduated from the Wisconsin State Normal School in River Falls in 1886. Dr. Libby received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1895. He married Eva Gertrude Cory on Sept. 12, 1900. They moved to Grand Forks, N.D., in 1902, where Dr. Libby worked as Professor of History at the University of North Dakota until 1945. In May, 1905, Dr. Libby sponsored the organization of the North Dakota State Historical Society, and became its first Secretary, serving until 1945. For forty years he was the editor and principal contributor to the Society's two official publications, Historical Collections and the North Dakota Historical Quarterly. Dr. Libby retired from UND in 1945 and died on March 29, 1952. [Source: Shafer, George F., Dr. Orin Grant Libby, North Dakota History 12 (1945): 107-110.]
Red ID: PH_I_90413 Image ID: 50152 Image Notes: B0839-00001-back

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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