Walter A. Canniff Papers, 1876-1961

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Program: "An Evening with Sigmund Romberg and His Concert Orchestra", undated

Folder 2: Programs

Item 1: Seventh Biennial Singing Festival, Northwestern Scandinavian Singers' Association, Grand Forks, North Dakota, July 1904

Item 2: Fourth Annual May Music Festival, Grand Forks Oratorio Society, May and June 1910

Item 3: Fifth Annual Spring Music Festival, Grand Forks Oratorio Society, April 1911

Folder 3: UND Publications

Item 1: Commencement Program, June 1904

Item 2: "The Passing of 'Old Main'", December 1924

Item 3: 50th Anniversary Observance of the Founding of UND, February 1933

Folder 4: Programs from the Metropolitan Theater (Miscellaneous), 1898-1910

Folder 5: Programs from O. Young's Music and Piano House, Grand Forks

Item 1: Recital by Amelita Galli-Curci

Item 2: Recital by John McCormack

Folder 6: Program: 50th Anniversary of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Grand Forks, January 1931

Folder 7: Publication: "The Opening of St. Mary's Church, Christmas Day, December 25, 1915"

Folder 8: Publication: "A History of Fifty Years, 1892-1942: Grand Forks Deaconess Hospital"

Folder 9: Publication: "History of Grand Forks County with Special Reference to the First Ten Years of Grand Forks City" by H.V. Arnold, 1900

Folder 10: Map: U.S. Air Miles Lines, 1930-1931

Folder 11: Artifact: Personal Wallet of J.H. Kelley of the Selkirk (Steamboat), Grand Forks, Dakota Territory, 1881

Folder 12: Miscellaneous Items Regarding the Grand Forks Fire Department, 1897-1937

Folder 13: Publication: "Constitution and By-Laws of Phoenix Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1: Organized December 11, 1882, at Grand Forks, Dakota"

Folder 14: Miscellaneous Artifacts: Hotel Antler Key; Brunswick Hotel Key; Dakota Hotel Key; Badge of Fire Inspector; Chauffer Badge; Fire Chief Badge; Assistant Fire Chief Badge

Folder 15: Assorted Ribbons from Grand Forks Events

Folder 16: Record of Fires in Grand Forks, 1888-1889

Page 71 and 72 from a ledger book

Folder 17: List of Grand Forks Residences by Ward, circa 1895

Folder 18: Program: "First Banquet Hotel Ryan: Honoring Miss Catherine Ryan August 30, 1927"

Photographs :

Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets. Several oversize photographs were placed in the Oversize File Cabinets.

Photograph 1: Dakota Theatre

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Photograph 2: Metropolitan Opera House

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Photograph 3: Sod House, Morraine Township, Grand Forks County, 1883

Photograph 4: Ingalls House, 4th and Demers, Grand Forks, Following a Fire, March 1914

Photograph 5: Opera House Block, Grand Forks, 1905

Photograph 6: Grand Forks Street Fair, September 1897

Photograph 7: City Hall under Construction

Photograph 8: Grand Forks in 1876-Third Street Looking North

Photograph 9: Grand Forks Street Scene, 1890

Photograph 10: U.C.T. Convention in Grand Forks, June 1907

Photograph 11: Dakota Hotel Ground Breaking

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Photograph 12: Horse Race at the Grand Forks Fairgrounds

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Photograph 13: Procession on the Way to University Grounds (for the laying of the cornerstone at UND), October 2, 1883

Photograph 14: Downtown Grand Forks Street Scene

Photograph 15: Valley Motor Company, North 4th Street and University, Grand Forks

Photograph 16: B.O. Paulsness Plumbing and Heating, South 4th Street, Grand Forks

Photograph 17: Sam Lee Laundry, 110 South 4th Street, Grand Forks

Photograph 18: Hook and Ladder Company, Grand Forks Fire Departments, circa 1890

Photograph 19: Grand Forks Fire Department Carriages Returning from a Fire in Fargo, June 1893

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Photograph 20: Hook and Ladder Companies on Parade, 300 Block of Kittson Avenue, Grand Forks

Photograph 21: Unidentified Group of Men, 1887

Photograph 22: Fireman on Parade, 1897

Photograph 23: Grand Forks Fire Department, 1884

Photograph 24: Three Unidentified Men

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Photograph 25: Ontario Store Basketball Team, 1898

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Photograph 26: Knights of Pythias Band, 1901

Photograph 27: "Executed by Order of Judge Lynch, October 24, 1882. From the Great Northern Railroad Bridge, Grand Forks, North Dakota"

Photograph of the 1882 lynching of Charles Thurber

Photograph 28: "Wholesale District, Grand Forks, N. Dak"

Photograph 29: Steamboats Docked Along the Red River in Grand Forks

Photograph 30: "Steamboat Selkirk on Kittson Ave and 3rd St", Grand Forks, 1882

Photograph 31: "Teaburg Farm 9 M. East of Mayville, N.D., March 1897"

Blizzard photo; only the chimney of the house is above the snow

Photograph 32: Six Grand Forks Firefighters Standing Outside the Fire Station

Photograph 33: Three Firefighters Hosing Down Potatoes, October 1943

Photograph 34: Fire at the Brunswick Hotel on DeMers Avenue, Grand Forks

Photograph 35: Fire at the Brunswick Hotel on DeMers Avenue, Grand Forks

Photograph 36: "The New Aerial Used as a Water Tower", 1946

Photograph 37: Sig Odlaug Hardware Fire, Grand Forks, December 1946

Photograph 38: Firefighters Assisting a Person down a Ladder

Photograph 39: Tweet Super Market Fire, Grand Forks, 1943

Photograph 40: "October 8, 1943. 17,000 Bushels of Potatoes Stored in Int. Har. Warehouse"

Crowd watching the potatoes burn

Photograph 41: Fire at 906 Master Service and Dixie Bar, South 4th Street, Grand Forks

Photograph 42: Fire in Downtown Grand Forks, January 1946

Photograph 43: Fire at Flatt's, North 3rd Street, Grand Forks, 1944

Photograph 44: Firefighters Respond to a Fire in a Fire Engine

Photograph 45: Tall Ladder Extended from a Fire Engine on the UND Campus in Grand Forks

Photograph 46: Ladder Extended from a Fire Engine in Downtown Grand Forks

Photograph 47: Tall Ladder Extended from a Fire Engine in Downtown Grand Forks

Photograph 48: 4 Wheel Drive Fire Engine

City Manager Rookwood and Chief Newark stand beside the fire engine

Photograph 49: Firefighters M. Wilson, K. Rettke, Curtis Field and Sonny Coss, April 1961

Photograph 50: Firefighters Berglund and Ron Nelson at the Simonson Lumber Fire, February 1961

Photograph 51: Hotel Dacotah Fire, Grand Forks, December 1944

Photograph 52: Flaat Farm Fire, 1944

Photograph 53: Church of God Fire

Photograph 54: Hotel Dacotah Fire, December 1944

Photograph 55: Grand Forks Fire Department "Miss Flame"

Robert Bundlie, Dewey Suedel, Kenneth Engen, Chief J.P. Newark, Sheila Sheik (Miss Flame), John Butler, Captain Emmett Dahl, Assistant Chief Clarence Coss, C.P. Coss and Inspector Clarence Sage

Photograph 56: Frederick Hotel Fire, December 1944

Photograph 57: Frederick Hotel Fire, December 1944

Photograph 58: Fire Engine

Photograph 59: Water Gushing Down a Stairwell, Tweet and McElroy Fire, 1944

Photograph 60: Group Photograph of the Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1935

Photograph 61: Horse Drawn Fire Wagon, circa 1906

Photograph 62: Group of Men Outside of an Unidentified Building

Photograph 63: Firefighters Stand beside a Fire Wagon, circa 1906

Photograph 64: Four Firefighters in the Fire Hall, 1906

Photograph 65: Parade in Grand Forks, April 1954

Photograph 66: Wisner Block Fire, February 1907

Photograph 67: Unidentified Fire

Photograph 68: Frederick Hotel Fire, December 1944

Photograph 69: Remains of the Hotel Dacotah Fire, December 1897

Photograph 70: Margaret Murphy, 420 Reeves Drive, Grand Forks, circa 1910

Photograph 71: Unidentified Man

Photograph 72: Margaret Murphy and child, 420 Reeves Drive, Grand Forks, circa 1910

Photograph 73: Grand Forks Post Office Staff, circa 1890

Photograph 74: Inkster Comet Band

Photograph 75: Harvest Workers at the Ed Taylor Farm, Grand Forks County, circa 1891

Photograph 76: Wright House, Grand Forks, circa 1895

Photograph 77: Unidentified Man in a Horse Drawn Carriage Outside the Hotel Arlington

Photograph 78: Woolworth Department Store Workers, circa 1900

Photograph 79: Grandstand at the North Dakota State Fair, July 1929

Photograph 80: Goebel Motors, 213 North 4th, Grand Forks

Photograph 81: UND Football Team, 1900

Photograph 82: Hugh Ryan

Photograph 83: Kate Ryan

Photograph 84: Unidentified Man

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Photograph 105: Unidentified Man

Photograph 106: Unidentified Man

Photograph 107: D. McDonald, 1st Asst. No. 3, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 108: O. Winstrum, 1st Asst. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 109: John Zerfassdr, 1st Asst. Chief, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 110: M.A. Walsh, 1st Asst. Hook and Ladder No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 111: B. Pringle, 1st Asst. Ext. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 112: A. Bangs, 1st Asst. No. 4, circa 1882

Photograph 113: George D. Lay, Foreman Hose No. 3, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 114: W.O. Palmer, Foreman Relief Hose No. 2, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 115: T.B. Winter, Foreman Alert Hose No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 116: F.C. Whitbeck, Chief, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 117: T.H. Snyder, Foreman, Phoenix Hook and Ladder No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 118: Robert Slaughter, Foreman, Active Hose No. 4, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 119: O. Hexom, 2nd Asst. No. 3, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 120: T.W. Crowell, 2nd Asst. No. 2, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 121: M. Reuth, Foreman, Ext. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 122: T.C. Canniff, 2nd Asst. No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 123: T. Ryan, 2nd Asst. Chief, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 124: T. Rindskopf, 2nd Asst. Hook and Ladder No. 1, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 125: Thomas Smith, 2nd Asst. No. 1 Ext., Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882

Photograph 126: Charles L. Crandall, 2nd Asst. No. 4, Grand Forks Fire Department, circa 1882