Title: Elmer Osking Family Film
Dates: 1939-1959
Collection Number: 11218
Quantity: 2.25 feet
Abstract: Consists of fifty-six 8mm home movies, Castle Films News Parades, and two audio reels. The home movies contain footage of Hatton (N.D.), parades, aerials, football games, American Legion events, dedication of Eielson Air Force Base (Alaska) and family celebrations. Carl Ben Eielson house featured throughout films. The Castle Films New Parades (check for copyright before use) feature news stories during World War II until the 1954. The audio reels contain audio from the dedication of Eielson Air Force Base and memorial (Alaska). Elmer Oskings's wife was Elma Eielson Osking, sister to Carl Ben Eielson.
Provenance: This collection was donated to the State Historical Society by Eileen Mork on April 25, 2014.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Mr. Elmer Osking was born in Minneapolis (MN) on October 29, 1894 and attended school in Minneapolis (MN) and at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh (PA). He served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He came to Hatton (ND) in 1919 and was manager of the Thompson Yards for several years. He married Elma Eielson on August 23, 1920 in Moorhead (MN). Elma was born on February 7, 1893 in Hatton (ND); she was the daughter of Ole Eielson and Olava Baalson.
In 1921, Elmer, together with R.S. Dean organized the Dean-Osking Potato Co. He also served as president and manager of the True Foods and Potato Sales Co., of East Grand Forks and founded the Watertown Potato Co. at Watertown, South Dakota. He spent several years in Florida where he managed the Florida Foods Co., at Belle Glade. Mr. Osking served as mayor of Hatton for several terms and was a former director of the Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Hatton for many years. He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church, the Hatton Fire Department, of Garfield Masonic Lodge of Hatton, Carrol O. Flesche Post of the American Legion of which he was a past commander, the Hatton Civic Club, the Grand Forks Elks, and Scottish Rite Bodies in Grand Forks. Elma was active in the Eastern Star, the American Legion Auxiliary, the St. John Lutheran Church and its ALCW, and was a founding member of the Hatton Eielson Museum Association. She had represented the Eielson Family Home on official and social functions.
Elmer passed away on December 26, 1959 at the Veterans Hospital in Fargo (ND) after a two-year long illness. Elma entered into rest on March 12, 1982 at the Tri-County Nursing Home in Hatton (ND). Elmer and Elma had three children: Eileen (Kendall) Mork, Elmer Jr., and Ben.
Eileen Mork was born in 1921. She married Kendall Eugene Mork on July 10, 1945. Kendall was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. His plane was shot down over Austria and he became a Prisoner of War from January to July 1944. Kendall farmed east of Hatton (ND) and was an elected Director of the Garrison Diversion Project and National Diversion Project and National Water Resource Board. He was a founder of the Golden Lake Development Project and active in the formation of the Hatton Improvement Corporation. Kendall was a member of the American Legion for 55 years. Kendall died on April 3, 2001 at the VA Hospital in Fargo (ND). Eileen is a retired home economics teacher at the Hatton Public Schools. Eileen and Kendall have three children: Kristi, Kendall II, and Kari.
Elmer Osking Jr. was born on May 5, 1926. He was a veteran of World War II, he served in the United State Navy in the Pacific. After returning from the war, he and his father worked in a canning business in Florida. Then he returned to Hatton to work as a painter and carpet cleaner. He was a member of the St. John Lutheran Church and the Carroll O. Flesche American Legion Post. He passed away on August 30, 1986 in Northwood (ND).
Ben Eielson Osking was born in 1930. He lives in Marathon (FL).
SOURCES
Hatton Free Press, December 31, 1959
Hatton Free Press, March 17, 1982
Hatton Free Press, September 12, 1986
Hatton Free Press, April 12, 2001
INVENTORY
11218-00001 Home Scenes 1: 1939: Contains street scenes of Hatton; parade; swimming in lake; Eielson House; fashion show; dogs; trains; cars; baseball; picnic; WPA/CCC dam in river; Hatton High School, Hatton (N.D.) 1939
11218-00002 Home Scenes 2: 1939-on: Contains Eielson relatives; Minneapolis; farming gathering hay for threshing; turkeys; Eielson house; Andrerr H. Stavens homestead; flower gardens; Eileen Mork's husband in World War II military uniform; piano; soldier in front of house; wedding; fishing, Hatton (N.D.) 1939
11218-00003 Home Scenes 3: 1939: Eileen at Mayville Teachers College; football game; wedding; race cars; Austrian winter peas; Dean Osking Co. loading on train; aerial of Hatton and Red River Valley; Memorial Day processional at cemetery, Hatton (N.D.) 1939
11218-00004 Osking Family Trip - western United States; features Deadwood; Rapid City; Mount Rushmore; Salt Lake City; Independence Rock, Rapid City (S.D.) June 1939
11218-00005 Osking Trip West #2 - Zion National Park; "Great White Throne; Zion"; Boulder Dam and Lake Mead; Movie star homes: Ginger Rogers, Preston Foster, Dorothy Lamour, George Rafor, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Hotel, Mary Pickford's "Pickfair", Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Robert Montgomery, Fanny Brice, George A. Hormel (meat packer), Gary Cooper, NBC Studio, etc. Grauman's Chinese Theater; Santa Monica (Calif.) June, 1939
11218-00006 Osking Trip West #3 - Amphibian Airplane taking off; airplanes at Catalina Terminal; ship loading freight; Battleship Nevada at St. Pedro Harbor; Ping Pong; Gambling Ship "Rex" at Santa Monica; San Francisco; Chinatown; World's Fair; race track; orange and lemon groves in Filmore (Calif.) for packing June 1939
11218-00007 Osking Trip West #4 - World's Fair; outdoor drama; Crater Lake; Ben Halvorsen and wife; Red Bluff, Calif.; going through Oregon and Washington; Mrs. Ed Argall and Charlie and Ellenburg, (Wash.); sawmill June 1939
11218-00008 Osking Trip West Coast and Florida Spud Friends - Mountain west; finding bears in park; dam; potato field at Fort Meyers (Fla.); "Florida growers"; seed potatoes from Dean Osking Company; Miami (Fla.); planted fields with Osking seed potatoes; title cards identify specific growers and fields in (Fla.) planted with North Dakota seed potatoes from Dean Osking Company 1939
11218-00009 Service Film I - Philip at his home; Alton Teie and Philip; Carl Stenbahl; Russell Ofsthage; Martin Salish; Walter Green and Andie Thompson; Roland Hegg; Sanford Stanson; Byron Sorenson; Harvey Arneson; Vaugh Champcaux?; Elliott Paulson; Kenneth Greene; Robert Lee; Donald Thurneau; Orvis Pederson; Orville Vall; Earl Stanens; __ Huldahl; Eugene Anderson; Donald Tolefson; Armisd Degenes; Eddie Hanson; Lief Erickson; Maurice Nuss?; Bill Dean; Steve Iverson; Marris Postvelt; Bob Aaker; Kenneth Havson; Gladys Amundson; Geb Morrey; Orville Bye; Ray Nelson; Parkanen; Edrime Finstad; Eidan; Nelson Hatton (N.D.) 1940
11218-00010 Service Film II - John Glasrude funeral; Kendall Meade; Reingvald Aahn; Kenneth Guen; Green Family; Willard Sorenson; Elsworth Buran; Bill Dean; Fargo Camp; Ole Iverson; Rudolf Tobinson; Marvin Paulson; Robert Olson; John Wamheim; Arthur Tweten; Don Burker; Hamit Thompson; Elnor Thuneau; Norris Holmen; Rucher Aasen; Ruben Ber___; Numass; Tiddy Afsthaje; Carl Studahl; Holis Ahelin; Roger Beck; Kenneth Kordahl Hatton (N.D.) n.d.
11218-00011 Service Film III - Betty Olson; Yvonne Wastweidt; Winnie Anderson; Duane Beun; Artis Tweeten; Alma Anderson; Elmer Osking Jr.; Kendall Mork; Clyde Curriers; Luke Tucker; Aaker; David Green; Nick Norgaard; Marvin Paulson; Elliot Paulson; Charles Zwisk Hatton (N.D.) 1940
11218-00012 Home Scenes #6 - Hatton football game, 1940; Men's Night at P.T.A., silly costumes, Feb. 1941; people outdoors, picnic, swimming in lake, fishing; flowers; aerial view of Hatton and area Hatton (N.D.) 1940
11218-00013 Shrine Parade in Duluth, 1940; Rapid City, SD; Air Show, 1948; After parade, there are service men at a base, military band, ceremony, military airplanes; cars on fire, fire department in action; family shots Rapid City (S.D.) 1940-1948
11218-00014 Fishing trip - Canadian fishing trip, May 18-23, 1940; "Pilot" Elmer (Jelly) Smith; "Crew": Dr. J.J. Stratti, Grand Forks, ND; Dr. J.W. Brooks, Lancaster. MN; Gilbert "Gibb" Becken, Lancaster, MN; George Dahl, Lancaster, MN; Clarence Rustad, Neyes, MN; P.C.C. Wagner, Grand Forks, ND; John Ryan, Grand Forks, ND; Albert Hipp, Minneapolis, MN; Lester Thilen, Minneapolis, MN; "Photographer" Elmer Osking, Hatton (N.D.); Starting at Vermillion Bay (Ont.), we travel 26 miles by water on Lake Eagle to Winnange portage between Lake Eagle and Lake Winnange, where cabin in located Ontario May 1940
11218-00015 Spud scan - potatoes being inspected and sealed; sacks of spuds being stacked 1940
11218-00016 Westhope four row-planting potatoes - potatoes being seeded; loading seed potatoes; filling planter; seeding; working field (plowing, disking) n.d.
11218-00017 Potato Farming Operation #1 - Dean Osking Co. Potatoes; Growers; Shippers; Brokers; presents growing and processing of the far north Hatton (N.D.) 1939
11218-00018 Potato Farming Operation #2 - digging; picking; handling potatoes; placing into potato house; sorting; sacks of potatoes being stacked; certified seed potatoes being hauled away by steam locomotive; other harvesting scenes - grain bingers; brief clip of corn field; combine, swathe; threshing machine Hatton (N.D.) 1939
11218-00019 American Legion birthday party Hatton (N.D.) 1939
11218-00020 Church (1940-1942) - Choir picnic, 1940; Choir Christmas, 1941; Junior in choir; David and Punkie; Fauske reception; David alone; Fourth of July picnic, 1942 Hatton (N.D.) 1940-1942
11218-00021 City II - John and Dad; Ellen Gunderson; Mink format Baudette; Toto and Vick Hauelstade; Ralph Peterson of Phoenix and C.S. Anderson; road out of Finley (ND); Delta Kappa Gamma; Brekke Kiddies; Red Cross; Snow storm; Flood on 81 and Lincoln Drive; David Lauske; Cyclone, 1943; Mom's 1943 birthday; Minnie Brun (Breen?) 1943; Dr. Ralph Syrdahl; Auxiliary Jan, 1944; Finstad baby; Memorial Day Parade, 1944; Pheasants (baby) 1944; Aleliah Saliah's coffee party, 1944; Mrs. P.R. Syrdahl, 1944; Rev. Moss family and guests Hatton (N.D.) 1943-1944
11218-00022 Hot Springs, Ark. scenes; race track; Hot Springs National Park; film of town, streets, etc.; Home scenes; school play; Swedes graduation, 1944; Basketball team Hatton (N.D.) 1944
11218-00023 Christmas 1945-1950 Hatton (N.D.) 1945-1950
11218-00024 Home Scenes #4 - Sunshine Club; Legion Auxiliary; Hanna and Ray; Betty Thompson; Party at home; Hatton parade, 1947; Commercial canning; Hatton Diamond Celebration parade, 1947 Hatton (N.D.) 1946-1947
11218-00025 Home Scene #7 - Ben's confirmation; Eileen and Kendall; Florida; Paul Wagoner lake cottage; Lake Julia, Bemidji, MN in July 1939 Hatton (N.D.) July 1939
11218-00026 Smith family; Potato digger; field of potatoes; row of sacked potatoes; digger lifting potatoes; loading sacks of potatoes on truck 1952
11218-00027 Uncle Smith's Florida; Africa USA; Florida vacation pictures; shots of African animals at 1953 Florida 1953
11218-00028 Tulley Turk, Florida; house of the Tulley Turk's resort/hotel pool area; people in street scenes Florida 1953
11218-00029 Belle Glade; Cyprus Garden; Ben in Army; Les Smith Florida 1951
11218-00030 Florida 1947-1950
11218-00031 Florida 1947
11218-00032 Eastern Star Style Show 1950
11218-00033 Fishing 1950; Herb Hjelmer, John 1950
11218-00034 Home Scenes #5 - 1948: Bucker wedding; snow and flood; Ben's graduation party; Carl ___; skiing 1949; Swede and Dorothy wedding; Trip to Florida Hatton (N.D.) 1948-1949
11218-00035 Washington and Mackinac Island; Home flower; Silver wedding; Melvin Pederson Washington 1949
11218-00036 Kristie; Ben's wedding Hatton (N.D.) 1950
11218-00037 Cuba; Key West n.d.
11218-00038 Cuba; rural scenes ca. 1930-1940
11218-00039 Alaska #1 - includes group in front of Eielson Public School; McCord Air Force Base; Eielson Memorial Building; Eielson Air Force Base ceremony with speakers; Carl Ben Eielson monument Alaska 1957
11218-00040 Alaska #2 - shows Eielson memorial and entrance to Eielson Air Force Base; Yellowstone National Park and other stops in Montana, Alaska 1957
11218-00041 Nassau, Bahamas; Ray and Hannah; Elma Osking 1957
11218-00042 Duluth; Two Harbors; Kakabeba Falls; Port Williams; Boat and Zoo; mining of iron ore Duluth (Minn.) n.d.
11218-00043 Miami, FL 1952 Shrine Parade Miami (Fla.) 1952
11218-00044 Alaska n.d.
11218-00045 Christmas Hatton (N.D.) 1939-1944
11218-00046 Florida, 1952 - Ken, Eileen; Parrot Garden
11218-00047 Castle Films - News Parade 1937-1938
11218-00048 Castle Films - News Parade 1939-1940
11218-00049 Castle Films - News Parade 1941-1942
11218-00050 Castle Films - News Parade 1943-1944
11218-00051 Castle Films - News Parade 1945-1946
11218-00052 Castle Films - News Parade 1947-1948
11218-00053 Castle Films - News Parade 1949-1950
11218-00054 Castle Films - News Parade 1951-1952
11218-00055 Castle Films - News Parade 1953-1954
11218-00056 Castle Films - News Parade 1955
11218-00057 Castle Films - Commercial Film U.S.S. Panay 1938
11218-00058 Official Films - News Thrills of 1942 Vol. 1 1942
11218-00059 Official Films - 1943 Vol. 1 1943
11218-00060 Castle Films - Movie Headlines n.d.
11218-00061 Castle Films - News Parades - 155. MacArthur liberates Manila 1945
11218-00062 Castle Films - News Parades - 153. Rome falls to Allies and Invasion of Fortress Europe 1944
11218-00063 Castle Films - News Parade - 147. U.S. Marines captures Tarawa 1943
11218-00064 Castle Films - News Parade - 146. Italy surrenders 1944
11218-00065 Castle Films - News Parade - 139. Battle for Tunisia! Surrender at Stalingrad 1939
11218-00066 Castle Films - News Parade - 141. Yanks bomb Tokyo 1942
11218-00067 Castle Films - News parade - 133. Midway - Coral Sea Battles 1942
11218-00068 Castle Films - Kiko the Kangaroo - Paul Terrytoons - 783. Red Hot Rhythm March 5, 1937
11218-00069 Audio recording of Eielson Memorial dedication Alaska July 12, 1957
11218-00070 Audio recording of Eielson Memorial dedication Alaska July 12, 1957
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