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Title: State Library Commission
Dates: 1910-1968
Collection Number: 00783
Quantity: 516 items
Abstract: Images of libraries around North Dakota, bookmobiles, and State Library staff and activities.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired this collection from the State Library.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
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Access: This collection is open under the rules and regulations of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
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PHOTOGRAPHS INVENTORY
00783-001 US Mail truck loading boxes at Liberty Memorial Building January 1961
00783-002 – 003 Front of Liberty Memorial Building
00783-004 – 010 Front of Liberty Memorial Building November 1960
00783-011 US Mail truck loading boxes at Liberty Memorial Building January 1961
00783-012 – 013 Front of Liberty Memorial Building November 1960
00783-014 Mr. Dohn, Mr. Schatz, mailmen loading boxes at Liberty Memorial Building
00783-015 – 020 Front of Liberty Memorial Building
00783-021 Legislative Reference Librarian I. A. Acker’s office December 1913
00783-022 Miss Peterson and Mrs. Budlong in the Educational Reference Department December 1913
00783-023 Miss MacPhee and Miss Smith in the Traveling Library Department December 1913
00783-024 Miss MacPhee, Mrs. Budlong, Miss Smith, Mr. Acker, and Miss Peterson in the Traveling Library Department December 1913
00783-025 Mrs. Budlong in the office of the Secretary of the Public Library Commission December 1913
00783-026 Library, Casselton (ND) October 1965
00783-027 Library, Harvey (ND) October 1965
00783-028 Library, Mayville (ND) October 1965
00783-029 Veterans Memorial Library, Bismarck (ND) October 1965
00783-030 City Hall and Library, Leeds (ND) October 1965
00783-031 Library, Grafton (ND) October 1965
00783-032 Library, Rugby (ND) October 1965
00783-033 Library, Cando (ND) October 1965
00783-034 Cavalier (ND) Public Library 1964
00783-035 Stutsman County Bookmobile makes its first run in North Dakota at Jamestown April 19, 1954
00783-036 Traveling library on better farming train from Public Library Commission 1910
00783-037 Mrs. Oliver in the Lisbon (ND) Public Library
00783-038 The Main Building, ND State School of Science, Wahpeton (ND)
00783-039 Library interior at NS State School of Science, Wahpeton (ND)
00783-040 Library, Leonard (ND)
00783-041 Mrs. C. A. Anderson in front of the Killdeer (ND) Library March 1954
00783-042 Library, Killdeer (ND)
00783-043 Children reading at Pony Gulch School No. 1, Wells County (ND)
00783-044 New addition at James Memorial Library, Williston (ND) September 28-30, 1961
00783-045 Librarian, Mrs. Russell, Carrington (ND) Library
00783-046 – 047 Interior, Carrington (ND) Library
00783-048 Valley City (ND) exterior
00783-049 Valley City (ND) Public Library interior
00783-050 – 051 Public Library, Grand Forks (ND) 1907
00783-052 Library, Fargo (ND)
00783-053 Jamestown (ND) Public Library
00783-054 – 055 Grand Forks (ND) Public Library
00783-056 Grafton (ND) Public Library
00783-057 – 059 Interior Jamestown (ND) Library 1910
00783-060 Jamestown College construction “Library” above doorway October 1912
00783-061 Putnam Hall, North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo (ND)
00783-062 Carnegie Library, Devils Lake (ND)
00783-063 – 064 Interior Carnegie Library, Devils Lake (ND)
00783-077 Public Library Commission exhibit at State Fair, Minot (ND) 1912
00783-079 Lawrence Welk promotional portrait ABC-TV 1956
00783-083 Public Library, Bismarck (ND). Photographer: Slorby Studio
00783-084 Rugby (ND) Book Fair November 4-5, 1959
00783-085 R. E. Elstrom, salesman, Mrs. Strand, Library Board Chair, and M. Bogdonovich, Manager Maplewood Book Co. at the Rugby Book Fair 1959
00783-086 People looking at books at the Rugby Book Fair 1959
00783-087 Agatha Jakubowsky by stacks of parcels
00783-088 US Mail truck loading boxes at Liberty Memorial Building January 1961
00783-089 Stacks of parcels in library
00783-090 Loading boxes of books for the mail January 1961
00783-092 Loading boxes of books for the mail January 1961
00783-093 US Mail truck loading boxes at Liberty Memorial Building January 1961
00783-094 Librarian at desk January 1961
00783-095 – 096 Librarians with stacks of parcels January 1961
00783-097 Parcels and mail bag outside Liberty Memorial Building January 1961
00783-098 – 101 Sakakawea statue on Capitol Grounds, Bismarck (ND) November 1960
00783-102 – 103 Librarians at desks January 1961
00783-104 Nativity scene January 1961
00783-108 Hazel Webster Byrnes and Delores Eissinger selecting books for the Traveling Libraries 1951
00783-109 Group by Bookmobile
00783-110 Mrs. Anna Bensch receives Honorary Life Membership from Mrs. Anna Lassey at NDLA Convention, Jamestown (ND) 1965
00783-111 – 113 Bookmobile September 1965
00783-114 NDLA Executive Committee, Jamestown (ND) 1965
00783-115 NDLA Convention, Jamestown (ND) 1965
00783-117 Mr. Lawrence Ringuette, worker at State Library Commission February 1961
00783-119 Librarians work at desk January 1961
00783-120 View of Rhame (ND) from a distance July 1961
00783-121 North Dakota Demonstration Bookmobile
00783-122 Enterprise School, Hettinger County (ND) group in Bookmobile April 1961
00783-123 North Dakota Demonstration Bookmobile
00783-124 Beach (ND) children visit Bookmobile November 1959
00783-125 – 126 Bookmobile
00783-127 Bookmobile in Dickinson State Teachers College parade October 1960
00783-128 Mrs. Andrew Williams, granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, and her husband at Medora during the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park September 1959
00783-129 Bookmobile along the Custer Trail January 1961
00783-130 Bookmobile in the Badlands September 1959
00783-131 Harvest Day royalty, Marlene Bock of Amidon and Linda Austin of New England (ND) visit the Bookmobile in Hettinger County September 1960
00783-132 Packing mail sacks at Liberty Memorial Building January 1961
00783-134 – 214 Bookmobile
00783-215 – 216 Holiday Inn sign: Welcome Governors Conference on Libraries
00783-231 Norris Wilson, Tioga (ND) Superintendent of Schools October 14, 1968
00783-232 Susan Kresbach, Williston (ND) October 14, 1968
00783-233 Edna Reimche, Minot High School October 14, 1968
00783-235 Dan Kisse, Halliday (ND) October 25, 1968
00783-239 Ruth Ralph, Crosby; Geraldine Brosman Minot AFB; Everett Lester, Minot; Mrs. Lawrence Erickson, Minot; and Tom Nielson, Bowbells (ND) October 16, 1968
00783-244 – 245 Bookmobile at Edgeley 75th Jubilee parade June 19, 1962
00783-254 Dedication of Edgeley Public Library Annex April 28, 1963
00783-263 Putting out ‘Library Notes & News’ Spring 1956: Josephine Davenport, Clara Knoepfle, Hazel Webster Byrnes, Edna Gehring, Hildegard Kuchinsky, Dorothy Bigwood, Arlene Stocker, Winnifred Coyne, Sarah Kirsch, and Gabreilla Holkesvik
00783-264 – 265 Arlene Stocker 1951
00783-265 Hazel W. Byrnes and Arlene Stocker Spring 1956
00783-266 Mr. Turner Spring 1956
00783-267 Sara Kirsch and Winnifred Coyne
00783-268 Edna Gehring, Clara Knoepfle, Hazel Webster Byrnes, Dorothy Bigwood, Hildegard Kuchinsky, Sarah Kirsch, and Gabriella Holkesvik Spring 1956
00783-269 Hazel W. Byrnes and Arlene Stocker Spring 1956
00783-270 Winnifred Coyne, Hildegard Kuchinsky, and Gabriella Holkesvik Spring 1956
00783-271 Mr. Turner and Mrs. La Fleur Spring 1956
00783-271a Group on Liberty Memorial Building steps Spring 1956: Mr. Turner, Josephine Davenport, Gabriella Holkesvik, Hazel Webster Byrnes, Edna Gehring, Lorraine La Fleur, Sarah Kirsch, Arlene Stocker, Winnifred Coyne, Dorothy Bigwood, Clara Knoepfle, and Hildegard Kuchinsky
00783-272 State Library Commission display at 4th Community Betterment Awards Day program, Williston (ND) November 23, 1964
00783-273 – 274 State Library Commission workshop, Capitol Hearing Room April 4, 1960
00783-275 Leslie Burgum, Attorney General; Hazel Webster Byrnes, State Library Commission Director; Eva Fogderud, Assistant Federal-State Library Project, Helen Luce, Library Extension Specialist, Washington (DC) at State Library Commission workshop Capitol Hearing Room April 4, 1960
00783-276 – 277 Mr. H. H. Joos, Chairman, Board of Administration; Hazel Webster Byrnes, and Leslie Burgum, State Library Commission workshop, Capitol Hearing Room April 4, 1960
00783-278 Arlene Stocker, Marshall Conner, Lorraine La Fleur, Marie Huber, Betty Sprynczynatyk, Winnifred Coyne, Eva Fogderud, Miss Knoll, Penelope Stevens, Margaret Stav, Gertrude Funston, Mrs. Marshall Conner, Josephine Davenport, Tillie Kom, Hazel Webster Byrnes, and Lawrence Ringette
00783-279 Children of John Eggle looking at a box of books from the State Library Commission February 1956
00783-280 Mrs. C. A. Anderson, Assistant at the Library Commission
00783-281 Alice Porter 1951
00783-282 Dorothy Bigwood filing catalog cards 1951
00783-283 Julius Hanson preparing for the mail truck
00783-284 – 295 Students in a classroom looking at books from the State Library Commission
00783-296 – 316 Morton County Bookmobile 1960
00783-331 Incoming mail March 1961
00783-332 – 333 Duane Wobig and his antelope sticks at the Amidon burning coal mine July 1961
00783-334 – 335 Mr. and Mrs. Wilmar Wobig at the Amindon burning coal mine July 1961
00783-336 Bookmobile at Johnson Corner north of Manitou (ND) This is just a crossroad with the nearest farm 2 miles away. Patrons come 7-8 miles. 50-60 books are checked out regularly here.
00783-337 Patrons crowd inside Bookmobile November 1961
00783-338 Hazel Webster Byrnes
00783-339 Freda W. Hatten working at the Casselton (ND) Public Library
00783-340 Sam Oxner mailing packages at the Liberty Memorial Building 1964
00783-341 Mrs. Jennie Spiegelberg, Librarian at Beach (ND) Public Library April 17, 1959
00783-342 Interior New Salem (ND) Library
00783-343 – 344 Children in Primary room at Wano School #3, Edgeley (ND) reading State Library books
00783-345 Stutsman County Bookmobile makes its first run in North Dakota at Jamestown April 19, 1954
00783-346 Children selecting books from the Stutsman County Bookmobile, Jamestown (ND) 1954
00783-347 Children in a classroom reading books from the State Library
00783-348 Anna Bensch, City-County Librarian, and Teacher Mrs. Rau help children select books at Woodbury School #1 near Jamestown (ND) 1954
00783-349 Mail bags at Liberty Memorial Building
00783-350 Same as 00783-248
00783-351 Mrs. Ben Stuart, rural homemaker, and Sister Carita of Trinity Hospital visit with Anna Bensch, librarian, Jamestown (ND) 1954
00783-353 Martha Berg and Barbara Brown look through card catalog April 18, 1956
00783-354 Stack of mail at State Library
00783-355 National Library Week window display “Reading is the Key,” Enderlin (ND) July 1964
00783-356 – 362 Ellendale (ND) State Teachers College book exhibit March 1964
00783-364 Carrington (ND) Public Library 1964
00783-365 Hazel Webster Byrnes outside the Mandan (ND) Public Library 1964
00783-368 – 370 Mandan (ND) Library open house 1964
00783-371 – 372 Pembina Public Library in City Council Room 1964
00783-374 – 376 Opening of Garrison (ND) Library 1964
00783-377 Bookmobile
00783-378 – 380 Tribal Training Center dedication, Bismarck (ND) September 1964
00783-381 – 385 Kansas Title Program, Kansas City (KS) 1968
00783-386 Governors Commission on the Handicapped, Bismarck (ND) 1968
00783-387 Tribal Training Center dedication, Bismarck (ND) September 1969
00783-388 – 389 Governors Commission on the Handicapped, Bismarck (ND) 1968
00783-390 Senator Edwin C. Becker, Willow City (ND) and Representative Oscar Solberg, Mylo (ND) at Region 3 meeting, Towner (ND)
00783-391 Region 1 meeting, Stanley October 14, 1968
00783-392 Leslie Burgum, Hazel W. Byrnes, Eva Fogderud, and Helen Lure at State Library Commission workshop April 4, 1960
00783-395 Bookmobile serving Mercer and McLean counties (ND)
00783-397 Bookmobile serving Mercer and McLean counties (ND)
00783-398 Lorraine La Fleur, Head Traveling Library Department
00783-399 Josephine Davenport preparing mail at Liberty Memorial Building 1961
00783-400 Mail ready for truck at Liberty Memorial Building 1961
00783-401 Claudet Kurtz, one of the Play Day organizers June 1964
00783-402 Read aloud group in Annex led by Clair Hall June 1964
00783-405 Pony Express meets Bookmobile, Beach (ND) July 20, 1960
00783-406 Mrs. Helen Luce from Washington (DC) 1961
00783-407 Miss Marie Huber 1961
00783-408 – 409 Mail truck backed up to State Library chute 1961
00783-410 – 411 Mr. L. Ringuett, worker with Traveling Library 1961
00783-412 Mrs. Byrnes and her secretary 1961
00783-413 Mrs. Gertrude Funston at State Library 1961
00783-414 Marie Huber and Eva Fogderud 1961
00783-415 Gertrude Funston at State Library 1961
00783-416 Eva Fogderud 1961
00783-418 Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts, Bonita Ensign and Bonnie Buckman visit the Bookmobile at the Bowman celebration
00783-423 Group on horseback visit Bookmobile
00783-425 Children in line for Ward County Bookmobile at Foxholm School
00783-426 State Library mailing staff: Ella Holkesvik, Edna Gehring,Winnifred Coyne, and Sarah Kirsch
00783-427 Bookmobile at Newtown (ND)
00783-428 Bookmobile in Badlands
00783-429 Boxes for mailing
00783-435 Bookmobile
00783-436 Hebron School children visit bookmobile 1959
00783-437 Lillian Cook with large turtle
00783-438 State Library picnic on lawn of Roosevelt Cabin, Capitol Grounds 1956
00783-439 Dorothy Bigwood and Winnifred Coyne at State Library picnic 1956
00783-440 Lorraine La Fleur, Hazel Byrnes, Mrs. Holesvik, and Julius Hanson get Traveling Libraries ready for shipment
00783-441 Valley City High School students prepare library bulletin board for Book Week
00783-442 Book trees at Broken Bone School #3, Pleasant Lake (ND)
00783-443 Bookmobile
00783-445 Bookmobile
00783-446 Oakes (ND) Public School Library
00783-447 Sally Shepperson, Queen of American College Rodeo Association at Bookmobile 1960
00783-449 Bookmobile
00783-450 – 451 Demonstration Bookmobile at Dickinson State Teachers College October 1960
00783-452 Bookmobile at US Customs, Portal (ND) December 1960
00783-453 Bookmobile at Canadian Customs, North Portal, Saskatchewan December 1960
00783-454 Collecting mail at State Library September 19, 1958
00783-455 Claude Brown, Howard Hardy, Brooks Keogh, Mrs. Stav, Howard Gordon at State Library
00783-456 – 457 Farm library, Extension School, Mandan (ND) February 1912
00783-458 Man driving horse cart with sign: “The First Rural Library Service” followed by Bookmobile
00783-459 Group inside Bookmobile
00783-461 Checking out books in the Bookmobile, Lunds Valley (ND)
00783-464 Children in line for Ward County Bookmobile at Foxholm School
00783-465 Frank, Virgil, and Yvonne Chase at Bookmobile, Newtown (ND)
00783-466 Children in line for Ward County Bookmobile at Foxholm School
00783-468 Bookmobile September 1959
00783-469 – 472 Williams, McKenzie & Mountrail Counties Bookmobile
00783-473 Inside Williams, McKenzie & Mountrail Counties Bookmobile
00783-474 Clarence Poling, Hazel Byrnes, and Judge Eugene Burdick in front of Williams, McKenzie & Mountrail Counties Bookmobile 1957
00783-475 Hazel Byrnes, Florence Kearnes, Mrs. Harold Weyrouch, Mrs. Arthur Opsal, Anne Lassey, Mrs. Lester Larson, and Clarence Poling at Williams, McKenzie & Mountrail Counties Bookmobile 1957
00783-476 Florence Kearnes, Jeanette Taasevigen, Paul Frederick, and Marguerite Kleven at Williams, McKenzie & Mountrail Counties Bookmobile 1957
0073-477 Mrs. Lester Larson, Anne Lassey, Mrs. Arthur Opsal, and Mrs. Harold Weyrouch in front of Williams, McKenzie & Mountrail Counties Bookmobile 1957
00783-478 – 480 Williams, McKenzie & Mountrail Counties Bookmobile 1957
00783-481 – 482 Alvin Rants and Mr. Schatz loading the mail truck at the State Library 1956
00783-483 Winnifred Coyne, Ella Holkesvik, and Sarah Kirsch 1956
00783-484 Alice Porter and Winnifred Coyne packing books 1951
00783-485 Sarah Kirsch and Gabriella Holkesvik stacking boxes of books 1956
00783-486 Mr. Schatz and Mr. Dohn loading US Mail truck at Liberty Memorial Building 1956
00783-487 Ordinary day’s worth of mail – over 1500 pieces of books, letters, boxes
00783-488 Gabriella Holkesvik and Elaine Metzger handle incoming mail 1951
00783-00489 Alfred Dickey Public Library, Jamestown (N.D.) circa 1930
00783-00490 Public Library interior, Grand Forks (N.D.) circa 1920
00783-00491 Public Library interior, Enderlin (N.D.) circa 1935
00783-00492 Carnegie Library, Devils Lake (N.D.) XX
00783-00493 Public Library, Bowman (N.D.) circa 1910
00783-00494 Minnie C. Budlong, State Library Commission, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1940
00783-00495 Valley City Public Library 06/1956
00783-00496 Alfred Dickey Public Library, Jamestown (N.D.) circa 1973
00783-00497 Alfred Dickey Public Library, Jamestown (N.D.) circa 1973
00783-00498 Public Library, Mayville (N.D.) circa 1907
00783-00499 Valley City Public Library XX
00783-00500 Valley City Public Library interior XX
00783-00501 Valley City Public Library interior XX
00783-00502 Valley City Public Library interior XX
00783-00503 Valley City Public Library interior XX
00783-00504 Valley City Public Library interior XX
00783-00505 Dickinson Public Library (N.D.) circa 1910
00783-00506 Dickinson Public Library (N.D.) circa 1910
00783-00507 Public Library Commission, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1910
00783-00508 Public Library Commission, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1910
00783-00509 Public Library Commission exhibit at the State Fair, Fargo (N.D.) 07/23/1910-07/30/1910
00783-00510 A corner of the Educational Reference Library, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1910
00783-00511 Traveling Libraries, Library Commission Office, Bismarck (N.D.) 1910
00783-00512 Byron Dorgan and State Library staff, State Library Day 1990-2000
00783-00513 Governor William Guy and Richard J. Wolfert, State Librarian 1972
00783-00514 Book and photo exhibit at the State Library 1950
00783-00515 Book and photo exhibit at the State Library 1950
00783-00516 Theodore Roosevelt Ready for the Hunt XX
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