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Title: Orin G. Libby
Dates: 1863-1940
Collection Number: 00105
Quantity: 624 images
Abstract: Includes images taken by E. R. Steinbrueck for his book, My Red Brother, historic sites and events such as the Columbia River Historical Expedition in 1926,
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired most of the Orin Grant Libby Collection from Orin Libby in January 1946. Additional material has come in from numerous sources since the original deposit. The photographs were separated from MSS10085 in November 1983.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Orin Grant Libby was born June 9, 1864, on a farm near Hammond, Wisconsin. He attended the River Falls State Normal School and graduated in 1886. He received his undergraduate degree in 1892, his master's degree in 1893, and his Ph.D. in 1895, all from the University of Wisconsin. Libby was an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison from 1895 to 1902. He moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1902, became head of the History Department at the University of North Dakota, and retired in 1945.
Dr. Libby helped reorganize the State Historical Society of North Dakota and served as its secretary from 1905 to 1945. He was president of the North Dakota Audubon Society from 1903 to 1909, president of the State Library Commission in 1909, and president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association in 1910. He was a member of the Lions Club, the Franklin Club, Masons, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Pi Zeta, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Dr. Libby married Eva Gertrude Cory in September 12, 1900. They had two children, Charles and Margeret. Orin Libby died at his home in Grand Forks, North Dakota on March 29, 1952.
The Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection was established in 1952 at the University of North Dakota and is named in his honor. The Reading Room at the State Historical Society of North Dakota was similarly named in memory of Dr. Libby in 1982.
Sources:
Grand Forks Herald, March 30, 1952
Fargo Forum, March 30, 1952
North Dakota Quarterly, Summer, 1969.
PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
E. R. Steinbrueck photos for My Red Brother
00105-001 Badlands near Dakota line
00105-002 Badlands
00105-003 Fort Lincoln mouth of Heart River
00105-004 Mouth of Big Knife River
00105-005 Mandan Lake - East 1911
00105-006 Mandan Lake – West
00105-007 Ice on the Missouri
00105-008 Cable ferry across the Missouri below Fort Lincoln site
00105-009 Camp ‘Piehole’
00105-010 Camp ‘Piehole’
00105-011 Eastern bank
00105-012 Northeastern bank Fort Lincoln
00105-013 Southeastern ravine Fort Lincoln
00105-014 Landslide at Fort Lincoln site
00105-015 Clifford Sifton at camp towards the river ‘Fort Lincoln’
00105-016 Boys! get the horses!
00105-017 Blockhouse at Fort Yates (ND)
00105-018 Old Fort Rice N.D. 1864 to 1880 – men in uniform post card
00105-019 Hugo and Malvin with string of fish at Fort Clark
00105-020 View from north bank showing changes of Missouri at Fort Clark
00105-021 Bank of Mih-tutta-hang-kush and ‘made lands’ below. Clay hills on opposite shore
00105-022 Malvin and Hugo at camp under the high plateau of Fort Clark
00105-023 Remains of Fort McKean
00105-024 Knoll where Lewis and Clark had their 4th camp in Oct. 20, 1804
00105-025 Birdseye view of Fort Lincoln site taken from hill of Fort McKean
00105-026 Camp under Fort McKean’s hill
00105-027 Place of the old forge of Fort McKean
00105-028 Mission House, Independence
00105-029 Post Office, Sanger (ND)
00105-030 Hotel Thurston
00105-031 First white settlers’ log house
00105-032 Morton County Court House on the hill, Mandan (ND)
00105-033 Northern Pacific Railway Passenger Depot, Mandan (ND)
00105-034 Nigey Hotel, Mandan (ND)
00105-035 Hotel Interocean built by Hager Bros., Mandan (ND)
00105-036 Barrow's Corner, Mandan (ND)
00105-037 Mandan from Northwest
00105-038 Statue of Sakakawea
00105-039 Capitol (old) from the front
00105-040 Theodore Roosevelt Maltese Cross Cabin, Bismarck (ND)
00105-041 Hotel McKenzie, Bismarck (ND)
00105-042 A pioneer’s sod shack
00105-043 Standing Rock Monument
00105-044 Sitting Bull's grave, Fort Yates (ND)
00105-045 John Grass
00105-046 General George Armstrong Custer engraving 1874
00105-047 Harry Thorberg
00105-048 Michael Lang
00105-049 Old Mr. Sanger
00105-050 Fourth of July celebration Mr. Sanger and Henderson Smith
00105-051 Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Shultis
00105-052 Eddie Rush, Hidatsa, at Fort Berthold
00105-053 Two Hidatsa boys, Eddie Rush
00105-054 Charley Reed and, Eddie Rush
00105-055 Eddie Rush
00105-056 Mr. and Mrs. Wolf Chief and baby
00105-057 Mrs. Jim Baker and child (Mandan)
00105-058 Jim Baker (Hidatsa) at Short Bull's Haycamp with Short Bull's grandchildren 1900
00105-059 Short Bull
00105-060 Short Bull, age 73, and his grandchildren
00105-061 Yellow Horse (Arikara)
00105-062 Jim Baker, William Bell and Rev. White
00105-063 Good Bird and family
00105-064 Goodbird's parents: Son of Star and Buffalo Bird Woman (Hidatsa)
00105-065 Hidatsa woman and girls
00105-066 Sioux at home
00105-067 Indian Transfer Boat, Independence (ND)
00105-068 Bull Boat
00105-069 Stone pile for heating purpose and sweat lodge near creek
00105-070 Indian summer house. Camp on reservation
00105-071 Modern Indian log house with bower in front
00105-072 Sioux tent
00105-073 Butterfly in his tent
00105-074 Mandan burial ca. 1889
00105-075 Mystery pipe
00105-075 Medicine pole shrine
00105-076 Small Ankle’s or Wolf Chief’s father’s medicine shrine now in N.Y.
00105-077 Medicine Post, Medicine Shrine inside of the Medicine Lodge
00105-078 One of the inner 16 posts of an earth lodge
00105-079 Fireplace of Mato-topah’s lodge
00105-080 Wolf Chief’s father’s medicine lodge
00105-081 Kidney’s earth lodge
00105-082 Interior construction of round earth lodge
00105-083 Hidatsa wooden mortar
00105-084 A. C. Shultis’ excursion. “Sweet Alice” on her pony
00105-085 Hidatsa man on horse
00105-086 The Lone Elmtree and its mate
00105-087 Otto, peeling potatoes
00105-088 Malvin and Hugo after watering the ponies
00105-091 Arikara at Fort Berthold Reservation
00105-092 Sioux woman
00105-093 Sioux dressed for picture taking
00105-094 Ahi
00105-095 Indian turnip
00105-096 Sakakawea site
00105-097 Trench Arikara fort
00105-098 Camp under Arikara fort
00105-099 Bank under Arikara fort
00105-100 Lodge Circle, Sibley site
00105-101 Flat Butte camp
00105-102 Fireheart Butte in distance below Fort Yates
00105-103 Steep bank of Pretty Point site
00105-104 Pretty Point at a distance from Hugo site
00105-105 Ideal camping place at Henderson Smith’s
00105-106 Brower site
00105-107 Brower site
00105-108 Double Ditch, Mandan village site
00105-109 Triangular flat below Double Ditch site
00105-110 Renden site at Boley’s
00105-111 Hidatsa fish trap
00105-111-2 Saddle Butte
00105-112 Indian mounds around Heart River site
00105-113 Natural size and shape of buffalo shoulder blades in proportion to human skull
00105-114 Buffalo shoulder blade hoes
00105-115 Implements from buffalo shoulder blade: buffalo skull scraper, fleshers, side knife handles, playbone, chippers
00105-116 Bone and horn articles
00105-118 Mortars and pestels
00105-119 Tomahawks, hammers, piece mortar, drill cup, net sinkers
00105-120 Mandan pot, Heart River site, Mandan (ND)
00105-121 Rock with hieroglyphs near Billings (MT)
00105-122 John Charles Creighton
00105-123 M. Lang Grocery Mandan (ND) 1879
00105-124 Remnant of the first schoolhouse in the country, in Morton County
00105-125 One of the first log houses in the country in Morton County. Residence of County Treasurer, Alfonso Boley
00105-126 Parsonage at St. Anthony (ND)
O. G. Libby Photographs
00105-127 Georgetown (MN) crossing the trail
00105-128 High bank of site 2, Belle Vue
00105-129 Belle Vue site taken from camp near old Fort Rice
00105-132 Ernestine Mager, Walhalla (ND) 1937
00105-133 Elsie Villeneuve, Neche (ND)
00105-134 Michael Felthauser 1863
00105-135 Indian Village post card
00105-136 Sakakawea statue post card
00105-143 Rock cut footprints SE of Elgin
00105-145 Inscribed Rock at Mobridge (SD)
00105-147 Slant Village
00105-148 Sketch of Walhalla (ND) 1870
00105-149 Visitors viewing painting depicting Indians and Fort Buford in background
00105-150 Agnes Bottineau Delting, Duluth (MN)
00105-151 Dana Wright, France 1918
00105-152 Mrs. Peter and Pvt. Peter Thompson, Crow Agency Park (MT) 1926
00105-153 Thunderbird Writing Rock 1940/05/28
00105-154 Thunderbird Writing Rock 1940/05/28
00105-155 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-156 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-157 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-158 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-159 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-160 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-161 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-162 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-163 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-164 Kensington Rune Stone
00105-165 Thunderbird Rune Stone 1940/05/28
00105-166 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-167 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-168 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-169 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-170 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-171 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-172 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-173 Rune Rock Grand Forks (ND) 1929/07/12
00105-174 Dedication Fort Buford (ND) 1929/07/31
00105-175 Major Hugh Scott dedicating cemetery at Fort Buford (ND) 1929/07/31
00105-176 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-177 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-178 Writing Rock Fort Ransom (ND)
00105-179 Strong Heart, Red Tomahawk, and Dana Wright 1918
00105-180 Kanie, Chippewa Indian, Turtle Mountains (ND) 1928
00105-181 Kanie, Chippewa Indian, Turtle Mountains (ND) 1928
00105-182 Kanie, Chippewa Indian, Turtle Mountains (ND) 1928
00105-183 Kanie, Chippewa Indian, Turtle Mountains (ND) 1928
00105-184 Kanie, Chippewa Indian, Turtle Mountains (ND) 1928
Columbia River Historical Expedition
00105-185 Fort Union (ND)
00105-186 Fort Union (ND)
00105-187 Fort Union (ND)
00105-188 Fort Union (ND)
00105-189 Fort Union (ND)
00105-190 Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie 1926/07/19
00105-191 Dr. Samuel Morison, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-192 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-193 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-194 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-195 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-196 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-197 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-198 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-199 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-200 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-201 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-202 Ox Cart Parade, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-203 Chippewa Indians, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-204 Chippewa Indians, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-205 Chippewa Indians, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-206 Chippewa Indians, Grand Forks (ND) 1926/07/16
00105-207 Earth Lodge at Fort Union 1926
00105-208 Earth Lodge at Fort Union 1926
00105-209 Earth Lodge at Fort Union 1926
00105-210 Earth Lodge at Fort Union 1926
00105-211 Fort Union 1926/07/17
00105-212 Bear Soldier, Black Bear, Little Soldier, C. F. Crawford, Frank Zahn, and Usher Lloyd Burdick, Fort Yates (ND)
00105-213 Buffalo
00105-214 North Dakota Infantry 1917/08/00
00105-215 Indian Hammers;
00105-216 Writing Rock
00105-217 Writing Rock
00105-218 Writing Rock
00105-219 Sioux Indian Reservation, Mankato (MN) 1862/12/26
00105-220 Basil Claymore Clement, Sr. 1890-1910
00105-221 Basil Clement, Jr., unknown, Joseph Clement, Basil Clement, Sr. at Des Lacs Lake, Kenmare (ND) ca. 1890-1910
00105-222 Basil Claymore Clement, Sr. 1890-1910
00105-223 Fonseca, W.G.
00105-224 Antoine Girard
00105-225 Antoine Girard
00105-226 Lt. Ives
00105-227 C. C. Regier
00105-228 Muggins Moorhead
00105-230 John Nagel
00105-231 John Nagel
00105-232 John Nagel
00105-233 Major Shuman, Camp Sherman (OH) 1918
00105-234 Major Shuman, Camp Sherman (OH) 1918
00105-235 Mullan statue, Ft. Benton July 18, 1926
00105-236 Members at Great Falls (MT) railroad station July 18, 1926
00105-237 Boarding launch St. Mary at Going to the Sun landing, Glacier National Park July 24, 1926
01015-238 Student members of Columbia River Historical Expedition on Hudson’s Bay Divide, Glacier National Park, July 24, 1926
00105-239 Mr. R. D. Jenkins, Mr. Huffman and some of the students in ruins of Fort Benton July 18, 1926
00105-240 Log rolling contest, Longview (WA) July 22, 1926
00105-241 Highway marker unrolled at Longview (WA) July 22, 1926
00105-242 Unveiling Spokane Plains battlefield monument, Spokane (WA) July 23, 1926
00105-243 Party on summit of Mt. Spokane July 19, 1926
00105-244 Listening to speaker summit of Mt. Spokane July 19, 1926
00105-245 Selecting Princess America II at Spokane (WA) July 23, 1926
00105-246 Selecting Princess America II at Spokane (WA) July 23, 1926
00105-247 Groups around base of Astoria Column July 22, 1926
00105-248 Astoria Column, Astoria (OR) July 22, 1926
00105-249 Astoria Column, Astoria (OR) July 22, 1926
00105-251 Wishram monument dedicated July 20, 1926
00105-252 Bronze plaque on Wishram monument July 20, 1926
00105-253 Railroad platform at Bonner’s Ferry (ID) July 19, 1926
00105-254 Bonner’s Ferry Monument July 19, 1926
00105-255 Little Joe Crow Feathers and Many Tail Feathers at Bonner’s Ferry July 19, 1926
00105-256 Seaside (OR) July 21, 1926
00105-257 Wishram ceremonies July 20, 1926
00105-258 Party at Grant Springs, Great Falls July 18, 1926
00105-386 Four Rings (Arikara)
00105-387 Three Foxes Arikara)
00105-390 Sweet Corn (Arikara)
00105-428 Marchefenas Turtle Mt.
00105-429 Jack Little Boy, Marchefenas (Chippewa, Turtle Mts.)
00105-553 Father Genin
00105-555 Bon Homme (Turtle Mts. Chippewa) Dunseith
00105-556 Mr. H. Sims
00105-560-1 Red River carts, Winnipeg, Fort Garry
00105-560-2 Fort Abercrombie
00105-561 Windmill, Fort Garry
00105-563 Major James McLaughlin
00105-565 Major William H. Forbes
00105-566 Edward Lohnes
00105-567 E. W. Brenner
00105-569 George Faribault
00105-577 John Nagele, Elbowoods
00105-615 Francois Jeannette
00105-616 Rev. R. J. Creswell
00105-617 Rev. Daniel Williams
00105-618 Rev. John Irwin
00105-619 Rev. O. H. Elmer
00105-620 Rev. Francis M. Wood
00105-621 Rev. E. J. Thompson
00105-622 Rev. J. O. Sloan
00105-623 Mrs. Laughlin, Lisbon
00105-624 Mr. Laughlin, Lisbon
00105-291 – 624 Glass plate negatives
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