Title: Orin Grant Libby
Dates: ca. 1874-1920
Collection Number: 00060
Quantity: 97 items
Abstract: Photographs of American Indian artifacts found at archaeological expeditions, views of the Badlands, ranches, Writing Rock (Divide County, N.D.), people from Hebron (N.D.), Minnewaukan (N.D.) and the Black Hills Expedition members from Grand Forks (N.D.).
Provenance: The collection was donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota by Orin Grant Libby in January 1946.
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Related Collections: Orin Grant Libby (MSS 10085)
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 Margaret. 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; and North Dakota Quarterly, Summer, 1969.
INVENTORY
00060-00001 Pottery vessel from the Kankakee Valley near Lowell (Ind.), ca. 1905
00060-00002-01 Illustration plate of archaeological artifacts from Tower Hill (Wis.), ca. 1905
00060-00002-02 Illustration plates of Archaic lithic tools on the front side and Archaic pipe artifacts on the reverse, ca. 1905
00060-00002-03 Illustration plates of Archaic pipe artifacts on the front side and Archaic lithic tools on the reverse, ca. 1905
00060-00002-04 Indian grave with several skeletons at burial site at Tower Hill (Wis.), ca. 1905
00060-00003 William Plummer Company's Big Implement Yards, Minnewaukan (N.D.), ca. 1905
00060-00004 Part of the William Plummer Company's Big Implement Yards, Minnewaukan (N.D.), ca. 1905
00060-00005-01 Tom Torlino at the time he entered the Carlisle School, Pennsylvania, 1882
00060-00005-02 Illustration plate of Klickitat Indian Baskets, ca. 1905
00060-00006-01 Wm. Budge, member of Custer's Black Hills Expedition, Grand Forks, Dakota Territory, ca. 1874
00060-00006-02 Captain Thomas Hall of the Black Hills Expedition, ca. 1874
00060-00006-03 Hector Bruce of the Black Hills Expedition, ca. 1874
00060-00006-04 W. S. Woodruff of the Black Hills Expedition of 1874, ca. 1874
00060-00006-05 J. S. Eshelman of the Black Hills Expedition of 1874, ca. 1874
00060-00006-06 D. M. Holmes of the Black Hills Expedition of 1874, ca. 1877
00060-00007-01 The Writing Rock in Divide County (N.D.), 11/2/1930
00060-00007-02 Writing Rock, Divide County (N.D.), 4/14/1911
00060-00007-03 The Writing Rock in Divide County (N.D.), 1908
00060-00007-04 Writing Rock "Indian Relic" card, Divide Co. (N.D.), 5/27/1910
00060-00008 Portraits of two separate couples, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krueger and Mr. and Mrs. George Raber, ca. 1885
00060-00009 Individual portraits of two founders of Hebron (N.D.), Rev. Hoch, and H. F. Eidmann, ca. 1885
00060-00010 Individual portraits of Mr. John Urban, and Mrs. John Urban, ca. 1885
00060-00011 Couple posing for a portrait photograph, ca. 1930
00060-00012 Man and woman pose for a portrait, ca. 1880
00060-00013 Man in a horse-drawn carriage approaching the Bismarck Riverboat landing, ca. 1900
00060-00014 Man folding up a mattress ticking, ca. 1905
00060-00015 Washburn (N.D.) school building, ca. 1905
00060-00016 Indian with horn headdress, ca. 1915
00060-00017 Man looks at the door-flap of a tipi, ca. 1915
00060-00018 Orin G. Libby poses with an elderly Indian man and woman, ca. 1915
00060-00019 Orin G. Libby stands with an Indian who wears a buffalo horn headdress, ca. 1915
00060-00020 An elderly Indian woman seated with spread blanket and carved wood pieces, ca. 1915
00060-00021 Orin G. Libby poses while chopping wood with an axe, ca. 1915
00060-00022 Orin G. Libby on horseback in wooly chaps, ca. 1915
00060-00023 Six horseback riders in a corral by a log cabin, ca. 1915
00060-00024 Two women and a little girl on a hay wagon, ca. 1915
00060-00025 Man and two women in a wagon hitched to a team of horses, 1920
00060-00026 R. A. Lyon Ranch and people in a wagon, 1920
00060-00027 Four horses head into the corral at the R. A. Lyon ranch, 1920
00060-00028 Four horses at the R. A. Lyon ranch, 1920
00060-00029 Tents beside the R. A. Lyon ranch buildings, 1920
00060-00030 Log cabin with a sawbuck in the yard, 1920
00060-00031 Log cabin on the edge of the North Dakota Badlands, 1920
00060-00032 Wooden well-head tripod beside a tent, 1920
00060-00033 Colt being lassoed in a corral, 1920
00060-00034 Two men hook an automobile to a wagon drawn by horses, 1920
00060-00035 Two men pose in a horse-drawn cart, 1920
00060-00036 Men and women on an excursion on horseback and horse-drawn cart, 1920
00060-00037 Riders and their horses by the corral, 1920
00060-00038-01 Ranch buildings and tents in the Badlands, 1920
00060-00038-02 Log stable, corrals, and cabin on the R.A. Lyon Ranch, 1920
00060-00039 Small ranch on the open prairie, 1920
00060-00040 Ranch house and corrals near a stream, 1920
00060-00041 Trail leading up a draw, ca. 1920
00060-00042 Overview of the R. A. Lyon ranch, ca. 1920
00060-00043 Man carrying a rifle on the hills near the R. A. Lyon ranch, ca. 1920
00060-00044 Badlands view near the R. A. Lyon ranch, ca. 1920
00060-00045 Rough stretch of Badlands track in western North Dakota, ca. 1920
00060-00046 Faint track ascending a hill in the western North Dakota Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00047 Small ranch in the Badlands of North Dakota, ca. 1920
00060-00048 Wheat field in eastern North Dakota, ca. 1920
00060-00049 Grand Forks (N.D.) wheat field at harvest, ca. 1920
00060-00050 Badlands scenery, 1920
00060-00051 Mrs. Raven and Helen climb down a North Dakota Badlands hillside, 1920
00060-00052 Log barn tucked below a cutbank in the Badlands, 1920
00060-00053 Cattle herd in the Badlands of western North Dakota, 1920
00060-00054 Woman in white standing in a garden plot at a North Dakota Badlands ranch, 1920
00060-00055 Badlands vista in western North Dakota, 1919
00060-00056 Unidentified medallion displayed on a log wall, ca. 1920
00060-00057 Flock of sheep on the prairie, ca. 1920
00060-00058 Field hands display the wheat, ca. 1915
00060-00059 Fragments of bone eroding from a Badlands hillside, ca. 1920
00060-00060 Seven riders and a man with a cart and team pose in the Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00061 Young man on a horse by a corral , ca. 1920
00060-00062 Badlands vista, ca. 1920
00060-00063 Horses named "Teddy" and "John Deere" pose by the R. A. Lyon ranch, 1920
00060-00064 Remote ranch in the Badlands of North Dakota, 1920
00060-00065 Ranch land and buildings in the Badlands of North Dakota, 1920
00060-00066 Badlands vista, 1920
00060-00067 Badlands vista, 1920
00060-00068 Ranch property in a Badlands valley, 1920
00060-00069 Small ranch in the Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00070 View from a plateau in the North Dakota Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00071 View across the North Dakota Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00072 View including a long, narrow valley in the North Dakota Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00073 Horses in a Badlands ranch corral, ca. 1920
00060-00074 Three cowboys watch over a grazing herd of cattle, ca. 1920
00060-00075 Herd of horses trots across a Badlands valley floor, ca. 1920
00060-00076 Log cabin ranch site in the Badlands, ca. 1915
00060-00077 Valley view in the North Dakota Badlands, 1919
00060-00078 Horse herd crossing a field in the Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00079 Two women and a man ride horses down a Badlands trail, ca. 1920
00060-00080 A lone cow along a stream in the Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00081 Kenneth Westrand looking down from a plateau in the Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00082 Badlands view with low hill in foreground, ca. 1920
00060-00083 Badlands view, ca. 1920
00060-00084 View of the North Dakota Badlands from a high hillside, ca. 1920
00060-00085 Double exposure of people travelling on a Badlands track, ca. 1920
00060-00086 Rugged Badlands vista, 1920
00060-00087 Two track ruts on a Badlands hillside and coulee, ca. 1920
00060-00088 Ranch house and outbuildings in the Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00089 Curve in the road in a rough Badlands track, ca. 1920
00060-00090 Two cows plod up a well-defined two-track road in the Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00091 Animal trail though a wash in the Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00092 Trail beside a wash cut in the Badlands of North Dakota, ca. 1920
00060-00093 Sage brush flat in the Badlands, ca. 1920
00060-00094 Valley view in the Badlands of North Dakota , 1919
00060-00095 Two track road in a dry wash, ca. 1920
00060-00096 Pottery on display at an outside event, University of North Dakota campus, Grand Forks, ca. 1935
00060-00097 Man poses on a rocky hillside in the Badlands, ca. 1920
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